[Raymond Roger] the Viscount of Béziers worked day and night
To defend his lands, for he was a man of great courage.
Nowhere in the wide world is there a better knight
Nor one more generous and open handed, more courteous or better bred.
Nephew to Count Raymond, the son of his sister.
And he was certainly Catholic; I call to witness
Many a clerk and many a cannon in their cloisters;
But he was very young and therefore friendly to all
And his vassals were not at all afraid of or in awe of him,
But laughed and joked with him
As they would with any comrade.
And all his knights and vavassors
Maintained the heretics in their castles and towers,
So they caused their own ruin and their shameful deaths.
The Viscount himself died in great anguish,
a sad and sorry loss, because of this grievous error.
