[3] In 1232 he and Raymond VII of Toulouse captured 19 Cathars including Pagan de la Bessède; they were all burned.
[4] In 1233 Bishop Raymond had papal bidding to punish the Lords of Niort, who were scoffing at Catholic power in the region.
[6] The Inquisition was established in Languedoc in 1233,[7] with an Inquisitor for Toulouse appointed early in that year;[8] Dominicans were tasked with the work.
In August 1235 an incident that has become a representative anecdote of Bishop Raymond took place: the entrapping, related in the chronicle of Pelhisson, of a seriously ill Cathar woman.
Later in 1235 the Dominicans were required to leave Count Raymond's territories, the Bishop with them, and he left Toulouse in the midst of popular unrest.