Editing Bugger (section)

==History==
The term is thought to have emerged around the early 13th century, after Pope [[Innocent III]] and the northern French kingdom engaged in  the [[Albigensian Crusade]] in southern [[France]]. This led to the slaughter of about 20,000 men,<ref name=Cheney>{{cite book|last=Cheney|first=Christopher R.|author-link = C. R. Cheney|title=Innocent III and England|year=1976|publisher=Anton Hiersemann|location=Stuttgart}}</ref> women and children, [[Catharism|Cathar]] and Catholic alike and brought the region firmly under the control of the King of France. The crusade was directed against heretical Christians and the nobility of [[Toulouse]] and vassals of the Crown of [[Aragon]].<ref name="Cheney"/> The populace of [[Provence]] and Northern [[Italy]] sympathized with the victims of the crusade because of their moral purity. It was then that the Catholic clergy launched a vilifying campaign against them, associating them with unorthodox sexual practices and [[sodomy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Bogomilism Study|url=http://www.bogomilism.eu/Studies/Bugger%20case.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810053756/http://bogomilism.eu/Studies/Bugger%20case.html|archive-date=2015-08-10}}</ref>