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The council gathered a thousand churchmen to authorize a tax on their annual incomes, the " Albigensian tenth ", to support the Crusade, though permanent reforms intended to fund the papacy in perpetuity foundered.
However, Avignon, nominally under the rule of the German emperor, did resist, and it took a three-month siege to finally force its surrender that September.
Systematically, the crusaders while besieging Toulouse laid the surrounding landscape in waste, rooting up vineyards, burning fields and farms, slaughtering livestock.
Eventually, Queen Blanche offered Raymond a treaty: recognizing him as ruler of Toulouse in exchange for his fighting Cathars, returning all Church property, turning over his castles and destroying the defenses of Toulouse.
Moreover, Raymond had to marry his daughter Jeanne to Louis ' brother Alphonse, with the couple and their heirs obtaining Toulouse after Raymond's death, and the inheritance reverting to the king in case they did not have issue, as actually happened.
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