According to locals the place is haunted, a silver bell rings at midnight on the anniversary of the Templars arrest.

There is very little evidence that it was ever a Templar fortress, but plenty that it was a Cathar stronghold at the time of the war against the Cathars known as the Albigensian Crusade.  Le Bézu is even mentioned in the The Song of the Crusade, though no one realised this until the twentieth century when a local historian traced back the unlikely mutation of the name from Le Bézu to Albedun. 

The seigneurs were a family called Sermon, a branch of the famous Aniorts, Viscounts of the Plateau de Sault. It is known that Cathar bishops took refuge here. 

From the castle you have spectacular views, including the Pyrenees, Rennes le Chateau and the mountain of Bugarach.

Le castle was abandoned in the Autumn of 1210, along with Coustaussa at the approach of the Crusdaer troops of Simon-de-Montfort. The seigneur Bernard Sermon, became a faidit, and often visited Montségur, spending the rest of his time attacking the French invaders..

He openly rebelled in 1211, but later made his submission to Simon de Montfort who reoccupied the castle..

Guilhabert de Castres a Cathar bishop lived here for three years (from Easter 1229 to 1232) at the château d'Albedun, under the protection of Bernard Sermon le Vieux before seeking refuge at Montségur.

It appears that the château of Le Bézu was never besieged, but it surrendered without a fight after the demoralising fall of the château of Termes to Simon de Montfort in 1210. 

Youtube video of the Château d'Albedun at Le Bezu

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Google map showing Le Bezu