At the southern limit of the Corbières, at 3 km
from Cucugnan, the Quéribus castle rises up at
728 meters high. It overhangs the Channel of
Maury and dominates the Roussillon plain. The
sightpoint that it offers from its ramparts spreads
from Peyrepertuse to the sea, going by the Canigou.

The shape of the ground ideal to build a castle whose
a first mention is made, in 1020, in the will of the
count of Besalù, where Quéribus appears under the
name of Cherbucio.

During the crusade against the albigeois, Quéribus
was not very implicated, but in 1233, Benoît of Terms,
the Cathar bishop of Razés, was in Quéribus when he
died in 1241. Two years after the Montségur castle fall,
a perfect Cathar, Pierre Paraire, and some believers
lived there. May 1255, the seneschal of Carcassone, Pierre
Auteuil, with the support of the archbishop of Narbonne,
started the seat of Quéribus, the last point of the occitane
resistance, which surrendered three weeks later.......