The commune of Fontiers-Cabardès is located in the Cabardès, 25 km from Carcassonne, on a high nipple of the Montagne Noire overlooking the valleys of the Aude, the Pyrenees and the Corbières. You will have a beautiful view to the east of the Pic de Nore (1,210 m). The village is bordered to the north and west by the forests of Ramondens and Loubatière.
Fontiers was founded in 1203 by local lords: Sicard de Puylaurens and Eléazar d'Aragon. He is reunited with the crown of France following the conquest of the Albigensian Crusade.
The municipality of Fontiers was originally made up of several hamlets, often quite far from each other: Fontiers, Lacombe, les Bordes, la Fonde, la Canade, la Coulagne. The King of France Philippe le Bel had given the inhabitants of Fontiers and Saint-Denis, villages created as he specified in his charter for the clearing of the forests, the right to take wood to build their homes. He wanted to regulate this authorization because of the abuses which occurred and charged the seneschal of Carcassonne with it in February 1307.
Pierre de Rochefort, bishop of Carcassonne created a little later in 1315 the Charterhouse of La Loubatière in the forest of the same name located near Fontiers. The forest of Loubatière belonged to the bishop of Carcassonne, the stone terminals which marked its limits were decorated with the episcopal crozier. The forest became state property in 1791.
In 2009, not far from the forester's house (which replaced the Carthusian farm) the isolated ruins, covered with ivy, of a church remain; this building depended on the Charterhouse; it bore the name of Notre-Dame-de-Beaulieu, then that of Sainte-Marie-de-la-Loubatière; an abundant and icy spring fountain, near the forester's house, was established in the middle of the Loubatière cloister in 1332 following a donation from Pierre Dejean, bishop of Carcassonne.
