Alias
- Also: Pèira-Pertusa
- Also: Pieta Pertusa
- Castle situated on the Occitain region of the French Pyrenees, the name deiriving from the Occitan Pèira-Pertusa (Pierced Stone).
- Its foundation goes back to the 11th century under the Catalan counts of Besalú and later of the counts of Barcelona.
- It was one of the fortresses occupied by the Cathars. In 1240 it was taken over by France after the Albigensian Crusade.
- The King of France gave it to Enrique of Trastámara to settle with his wife and children in the aftermath of the latter's defeat at the battle of Nájera, in 1367. The location of this fortress, was of significant strategic importance to Enrique, high on an escarpment and close to the French-Aragonese border. [Fernando, 15: 34]
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