Peter of Aragon had returned from Las…
September 1213 CE
Peter of Aragon had returned from Las Navas in autumn 1212 to find that Montfort has conquered Toulouse, exiling Count Raymond, who is Peter's brother-in-law and vassal.
Crossing the Pyrenees, Peter and his army arrive at Muret in September 1213 to confront Montfort's forces.
He is accompanied by Raymond, who tries to persuade Peter to avoid battle and instead starve out Montfort's troops.
This suggestion is rejected.
The Aragonese forces are disorganized and disintegrated under the assault of Montfort's squadrons.
A sortie from the castle catches Peter himself in the thick of fighting: as a result of a foolhardy act of bravado, he is thrown to the ground and killed.
With him dies Spanish influence north of the Pyrenees.
Their king slain, the Aragonese forces break in panic and Montfort’s crusaders win the day.
It is a serious blow for the resistance.
The war, however, continues, as the heresies persist.