Grazide Lizier
French peasant
About Grazide Lizier
Grazide Lizier née Fauré (fl. 1321) was a peasant in the Comté de Foix in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. Her home region was known for being Cathar, and, during an anti-Cathar inquisition carried out by Catholic authorities, she was interrogated. A number of facts about her are recorded in the Fournier Register, and her life, along with those of her fellow villagers, was analyzed in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou.
Grazide was the daughter of Pons and Frabrisse Rives.
A year later, at Clergue's behest, Grazide married an elderly local, Pierre Lizier of Montaillou. For one thing, Clergue, being a priest, had told her it was not a sin. But, more than that, she simply stated that because she had liked it, and Pierre had liked it, it could not have offended God, so it could not have been a sin.
It is not known what happened to Grazide after her testimony.
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