George Gordon Coulton used to promise to circulate lists of errors in his books to any reader who would send name and address and 6 pence to cover postage. In his spirit we shall list on this website errors in our translations as we notice them.

We begin with the identification of place-names in the records of interrogation translated in Section VIII. Place-names are mainly identified using two things in combination. The first is modern data, in particular the IGN’s [Institut National de Géographie] Série Bleue 1 cm = 250 metres maps, and its CD-Rom Dictionnaire des Toponymes de France, which lists 6 million place-names. The second is those major editions of medieval Latin records from southern France whose apparatus includes extensive lists of medieval Latin place-names and their modern equivalents. Chief among these are Saisimentum Comitatus Tholosani, ed. Y. Dossat (Paris, 1966) [referred to below as Saisimentum] and Pouillés des Provinces d’Auch, de Narbonne et de Toulouse, ed. M. François, Ch.E. Perrin and J. de Font-Réaulx, 2 vols. (Paris, 1972) [referred to below as Font-Réaulx].

Identifying place-names is a difficult and uncertain exercise. We think that since publication we have got an improved view of some of them. We start here with the place-names in the long deposition of Raymond John of Albi. Watch this space for later emendations to others.

Errors and Corrections

Doc 13

• p. 102, A. Cortesi should be L. Cortesi.

Doc 41

• p. 299, Doat 23.262r: Bernard of Petra Fossor: perhaps Lapeyrouse-Fossat; cant. Montastruc-La-Conseillère, arrond. Toulouse, Haute-Garonne; Font-Réaulx, p. 956
  In the last line: Avignonet or Avignon
• p. 300, Doat 23.262r: Mocpestler = Montpellier
• p. 301, Doat 23. 264v: Campaira: perhaps Campeyras; comm. Castelferrus, cant. Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, arrond. Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne
• p. 301, Doat 23. 265r: Castagnac: more likely is Cazenac; comm. Beynac-et-Cazenac, cant and arrond. Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne
• p. 301, Doat 23. 265r: Bareio (or Bareie): perhaps Bareil; comm. La Chapelle-Aubareil, cant. Montignac, arrond. Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne
• p. 302, Doat 23. 265v: Murello = Muret; cant. Marcillac-Vallon, arrond.Rodez, Aveyron
• p. 304, Doat 23. 267v: Beaufort or Belfort
• p. 304, Doat 23. 268r: Pech-Aldebert or Pech Audebert; not located, but the Abbey of Villelongue in the diocese of Carcassonne received Pech-Audebert in 1202 (HGL iv.631)
• p. 304, Doat 23. 268v: Romeges: Roumégas; either comm. Bagnoles, cant. Conques-sur-Orbiel, arrond. Carcassonne, Aude, or comm. Saint-Gaudéric, cant. Fanjeaux, arrond, Carcassonne, Aude
• p. 304, Doat 23. 268v: Cassès: Cassés, Les; perhaps comm and cant. Castelnaudary-Nord, arrond. Carcassonne, Aude; see also Les Cassés in Haute-Garonne and Tarn, and many Les Casses; against some scholars, who are inconsistent in use of grave or acute accent, the Dictionnaire des Toponymes de France does not place any Les Cassès in Languedoc; Saisimentum, p. 376; Font-Réaulx, p. 902
• p. 304, Doat 23. 271v, 273v: For La Sencia read Lagentis: perhaps Largentinas; comm. Escaro, cant. Olette, arrond. Prades, Pyrenées-Orientales
• p. 307, Doat 23. 271v: Pujagou: probably Péchagut; comm. Preixan, cant. Montréal, arrond. Carcassonne, Aude