ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the English wars of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are to be found reproduced in the contemporary wars of the Continent, with certain small variations. The battle of Muret was the most remarkable triumph ever won by a force entirely composed of cavalry over an enemy who used both horse and foot. The king and his allies next moved against Muret, a small fortified town at the junction of the Garonne and the Louge, which lies about twenty miles south-west of Toulouse. The Aragonese king and the Count of Toulouse had fixed their camp along the left bank of the Louge, facing the castle and the north front of the fortress. The Hungarian contingent included several thousand wild Cumans, heathen savages from the Steppes, who had recently been driven over the Carpathians, and had obtained permission to settle among the Magyars.
