The Solages
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"During the terrible period known as the Hundred Years' War, the French crown faced the Kings of England, who laid claim to the throne. France was supported by valiant knights who believed in God and dreaded the forces of evil." "Lors de la période terrible connue sous le nom de la guerre de Cent Ans, la couronne de France affronte les rois d'Angleterre qui y prétendent. La France est soutenue par de vaillants chevaliers croyant en Dieu et redoutant les forces du mal." In the Languedoc, part of Occitania in the south of the kingdom of France, east of Aquitaine, the town of Carmaux was a small agricultural settlement under the protection of the Solages family. A day’s ride away was the city of Albi, a religious stronghold established after the Albigensian Crusade against those called heretical Cathars, Further afield were Castres, Toulouse, and Carcassonne, and closer towns like Cordes-sur-Ciel and Castelnau-de-Lévis featured fortified garrisons known as Bas...