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Muret, September 12th, 1213.

The battle, in fact, had been a skirmish. True, the two forces crashed with violence and many knights were unhorsed and killed on the spot just as the first corps of Montfort hit the lines of Raymond Roger de Foix. Then, Montfort attacked with his own corps and mayhem explode.

Suddenly, in the confusion that followed, some knights came dangerously close to the enemy leader and, realising that it was him, doubled their attack and, even if some of them were killed in the process and even if the great warrior fought like a devil for his life, the almost suicidal charge resulted in his death.

Thus, the vision of such an accomplished leader, with such an impressive fame won recently, falling from his horse and hitting hard the ground, where he remained unnaturally still, caused a conmotion in his men. Thus, the death of their leader gave the signal for a general flight. The defeated army ran in all directions. The reserve force, that had been kept in reserve, had not been able to join the fight, broke and also fled. The enemy calvary harassed them, killing more men during the persecution that in the battle itself.

It was not a rout, it was a slaughter.

Later on, when the victorious foot soldiers began to plunder the corpses of their enemies, they had no qualms to do the same with such a famous knight. Simon de Montfort's eyes were fixed on the sky, seeing nothing, and in this way, still, bloody and naked, Peter I of Aragon and his knights found him.
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