Pierre Clergue was a priest in the village of Montaillou, France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century.
Since then he has appeared in a number of other histories, and as the villain in the fictional work The Good Men by Charmaine Craig [de].
Despite being a priest in a Roman Catholic church Pierre Clergue was a staunch Albigensian having been converted by the parfait Guillaume Authié.
Le Roy Ladurie lists nine women of Montaillou with whom he conducted affairs: Alazaïs Fauré, Raymonde Fauré, Béatrice de Planisoles, Grazide Lizier, Alazaïs Azéma, Gaillarde Benet, Alissende Roussel, Mengarde Buscailh, Na Maragda, Jacotte den Tort, Raymonde Guilhou, and Esclarmonde Clergue, his sister in law.
Despite a concerted campaign of bribery and calling in favours by his brother Bernard, Pierre remained in prison and eventually died there.