Lombers

French commune
nomcommune=Lombers
région=Midi-Pyrénées
département=Tarn
arrondissement=Albi
canton=Réalmont
insee=81147
cp=81120
maire=
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes du Réalmontais
longitude=2.15083
latitude=43.805
alt moy=1,911 m
alt mini=177 m
alt maxi=321 m
hectares=3,879
km²=38.79
sans=856
date-sans=1999
dens=22
date-dens=1999

Lombers is a village and commune in the French "département" of Tarn, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Midi-Pyrénées "région".

History

Lombers was a significant centre of Catharism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It was the location of a Catholic-Cathar debate, perhaps in the 1180s, between Guillaume Peyre de Brens, Catholic bishop of Albi, and Sicard le Cellerier, Cathar bishop of Albi; Sicard lived at Lombers. [Harvard reference | Surname=Duvernoy | Given=Jean, editor | Authorlink=Jean Duvernoy | Title=Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii | Publisher=CNRS | Place=Paris | Year=1976 | ISBN=2910352064 pp. 40-43.]

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