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  Counts of Toulouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The hereditary Counts of Toulouse ruled the city of Toulouse and its surrounding county from the late 9th century until 1270.
The counts and other family members were also at various times counts of Quercy, Rouergue, Albi, and Nîmes, and Marquis of Gothia and Provence.
Joan of Toulouse and Alphonse of Poitiers (1249-1271)
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 Society Religion and Spirituality Christianity Denominations Catholicism Reference Catholic Encyclopedia R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raymond IV, of Saint-Gilles - Count of Toulouse and of Tripoli.
Raymond of Peñafort, Saint - Born near Barcelona, Raymond was an able canon lawyer who joined the Dominicans.
Raymond VII - Count of Toulouse and son of Raymond VI.
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 AllRefer.com - Raymond VII, count of Toulouse (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raymond VII 1197–1249, count of Toulouse; son of Count Raymond VI.
He fought with his father in the Albigensian Crusade (see under Albigenses), assisting Raymond VI in his attempt to regain Toulouse from Simon de Montfort and Simon's son, Amaury.
Defeated by the French, Raymond VII agreed in 1229 to a treaty that virtually transferred the major part of S France to the French crown, partly through cession, partly through the proposed marriage of his daughter to Alphonse of Poitiers, a brother of King Louis IX of France.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Raymond VI
Raymond, frightened into submission, expelled the heretics from his dominions, and on 18 June, 1209, in the presence of the pontifical legate, did public penance before the Church of St-Gilles.
Returning to Toulouse, Raymond tried to elude his obligations and was excommunicated by the Council of Avignon.
An exile in Aragon, Raymond VI reassembled his troops, and took Toulouse (7 November, 1217), later defending it successfully against Simon de Montfort, who was killed 25 June, 1218.
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 Patron Saints Index: Heresy: Albigenses
Raymond VI, in face of the threatening military operations urged by Innocent against him, promised under oath to banish the dissidents from his dominions.
Raymond VI, still under the ban of excommunication pronounced against him by Peter of Castelnau, now offered to submit, was reconciled with the Church, and took the field against his former friends.
The territory was ultimately ceded almost entirely by both Amalric and Raymond VII to the King of France, while the Council of Toulouse (1229) entrusted the Inquisition, which soon passed into the hands of the Dominicans (1233), with the repression of Albigensianism.
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 Matilda Joslyn Gage Website: Scholarship: The Inquisiiton: Raymond VI of Toulouse
Raymond VI was Count of Toulouse, a thriving area with a relatively civilized population.
With salvation for the pious, knightly fame for the warrior, and spoil for the worldly, an army of the Cross was recruited from the chivalry and the scum of Europe.
Stripped to the waist, Raymond was brought before Milo, the new papal legate, as a penitent, who placed a stole around his neck in the fashion of a halter and lead him to the church where he was industriously scourged on his naked back and shoulders.
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 Ramon V, Raimon V, Raymond V, Count of Toulouse.
In 1154, Raymond married Constance of France, daughter of king Louis VI of France and widow of Eustace IV of Boulogne.
Raymond V was implicated in the gathering Cathar crisis.
Raymond V's second wife was Richilde, widow of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Provence.
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 Asia Times
It was Raymond VI, the count of Toulouse against whom Pope Innocent III declared the Albigensian Crusade of 1209, who saw the personal downside of this problem more succinctly than most.
Raymond's contribution to the heresy was the complaint that all politicians have harbored ever since - the devil must have created the world, he said, "because nothing that ever happens in it goes my way".
In the days of Raymond vs Innocent, it was sometimes possible to avoid a fight by arranging a disputation between the advocates of God and advocates of heresy, to allow the logic of the arguments to prevail.
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 MONTFLEURY - LoveToKnow Article on MONTFLEURY
After a lively discussion in the Lateran Council of 1215, the pope, somewhat reluctantly, confirmed him in the possession of the greater part of the lands of the count of Toulouse, and after two more years of warfare he was killed whilst besieging the city of Toulouse on the 25th of June 1218.
The count's eldest son, Amauri de Montfort (1192-1241), was unable to hold his own, although Philip Augustus sent some troops to his assistance in 1222.
Their son, John, count of Montfort, claimed Brittany in opposition to Charles, count of Blois, and at length secured the duchy.
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 AllRefer.com - Raymond VI, count of Toulouse (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In 1213 he and Peter were defeated at Muret, and Raymond went into exile in England.
Although obliged to grant Toulouse and Montauban to Montfort and Provence to his own son, Raymond VI returned (1217) and fought with his son against Montfort and Montfort's son.
By the time of his death, Raymond had recaptured almost all of his territory for his son.
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 Holocaust Revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The elders, or barbes (uncles), Bernard of Raymond and Raymond of Baimiac were condemned as heretics by Raymond of Daventry in 1179 before the Lateran Council, not for their Sabbath-keeping but for their Unitarianism.
Raymond was excommunicated by Pierre de Castelnau, legate of Innocent III in 1207.
Raymond went to Rome and was received by Innocent III, but his estates were overrun by Simon de Montfort in his absence.
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 Ramon VI, Raimon VI, Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse.
Ramon VI de Tolosa: - Raymond of St-Gilles (October 27, 1156 - August 2, 1222), Count of Toulouse (1196-1222).(
Raymond's mother, Constance, was daugther of the king of France.
After the capture of Béziers and massacre there, the siege and capture of Carcassonne, and the death of their Viscount, Raymond-Roger Trencavel, Raymond VI was again put under pressure by the papacy, and was again excommunited, this time by the Council of Montpellier in 1211, when he tried to organise resistance against the Albigensian Crusade.
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 Zarathushtra, Mani, and the Cathars by Sanderson Beck
In 1177 Toulouse count Raymond V wrote to the Cistercians that heresy was spreading.
Toulouse count Raymond VI agreed to persecute heretics and dismiss his mercenaries; but the Count was excommunicated by legate Pierre after refusing to drive out heretics in the name of peace.
Toulouse count Raymond VI sought reconciliation by offering seven castles, and he was publicly flogged by papal legate Milo before taking the cross.
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 The Last Crusade - October 1993
It is never safe to compromise with wrong, but Raymond VI, the Count of Toulouse, seeing the dreadful storm approaching, was overcome with terror.
The person next in rank and prestige to the Count of Toulouse to oppose the invading force was young Raymond Roger, Viscount of Beziers.
The young count, Raymond Roger, was the leader.
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 Important People/Groups
Count of Toulouse: Raymond VI In 918, the powerful Count Raymond II of Toulouse acquired the Mediterranean march of Gothia (later known as the duchy of Narbonne or Languedoc), granting him overlordship of France between the Rhone and the Pyrenees.
His descandant Raymond VI is the last of the great lords of France still resisting submission to the king.
Raymond was part of the St-Gilles clan, one of the most powerful noble family in the region.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Raymond VII
Count of Toulouse, son of Raymond VI, b.
In vain Raymond VII offered his obeisance to the assembly of Bourges in 1226; a new Crusade was decided upon.
After the conference of Meaux, Raymond returned to Paris, and on 12 April, 1229, in the Church of Notre Dame, did public penance and was released from his excommunication.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine: Twice a Queen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She renewed her friendship with her uncle Count Raymond of Poitiers, a man only a few years older than she and who was far more interesting and handsome then her husband, Louis.
Count Raymond and King Louis began to disagree over strategic objectives with Eleanor siding with her uncle.
There was not only those of her relationship with her uncle Count Raymond of Poitiers but also that she had previously had an affair with Henry's father, Count Geoffrey of Anjou.
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 MONTFORT (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on MONTFORT (FAMILY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MONTFERRAT, COUNT OF, a title derived from a territory south of the Po and east of Turin, and held by a family who were in the I2th century one of the most considerable in Lombardy.
In 1147 a count of Montferrat took part in the Second Crusade; but the connection with the Holy Land begins to be intimate in 1176.
In that year William Longsword, eldest of the five sons of Count William III., came to the kingdom of Jerusalem, on the invitation of Baldwin IV.
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 Albigensian Crusade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Raymond VI died, his son Raymond the VII took his place and was still at battle against powers of the Church.
From there, Raymond VII was slowly able to reclaim all of the lands Simon had taken from Raymond VI.
After Raymond VII had lost his actual authority, the Council of Beziérs met and concluded that they must exterminate heresy by means of taking Montségur.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
Aquitane was threatened; John's two brothers-in-law, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and King Alfonso IX of Castile, defected, though John made a treaty with the king of Navarre.
After Raymond VII of Toulouse died the next year, she had to enforce the succession to his daughter Joan, wife of Blanche's son Alphonse, who was away on the crusade.
Philip gained allies by granting money-fiefs to the count of Luxembourg, the dauphin of Vienne, the bishop of Metz, the count of Holland, and the count of Hainault.
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 Cathar Details, Meaning Cathar Article and Explanation Guide
Papal legate Peter of Castelnau, known for recklessly excommunicating the noblemen who protected the Cathari, retaliated in 1207 by excommunicating the Count of Toulouse, as an abettor of heresy.
The war ended in the treaty of Paris (1229), by which the king of France dispossessed the house of Toulouse of the greater part of its fiefs, and that of Beziers of the whole of its fiefs.
Operating unremittingly in the south at Toulouse, Albi, Carcassonne and other towns during the whole of the 13th century and a great part of the 14th, it succeeded in crushing the movement.
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 Provence: French feudal coins
Raymond was the son of Raymond VI and Jeanne Plantagenet (daughter of Henry II Plantagenet).
Raymond VI triggered a crusade against Toulouse due to the assassination of a papal representative and his support of the cathar heresy.
It was Alphonse who inherited the title of count of Toulouse and on his death, the lands went to the royal family.
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 R Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born near Barcelona, Raymond was an able canon lawyer who joined the Dominicans.
Count of Toulouse and son of Raymond VI.
Former Cistercian abbey in Eichsfeld, founded on 1 August, 1162 by Count Ernst of Tonna.
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 OneDayHikes.com - Travel Features
The castle was built in the 12th century by Bertrand de Saint-Gilles, the son of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse.
The Counts of Toulouse were traditionally vassals of the French King, who relied on their allegiance to defend these outer reaches of his kingdom.
The various Counts of the Languedoc area, who were busy establishing and strengthening their own fiefdoms, were happy to welcome the exemplary Cathars.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a 15-year-old orphan when, as her guardian, France's King Louis VI arranged her marriage to his 16-year-old son, his heir apparent.
She was 30 years old and the mother of two daughters when she left the marriage with the Catholic Church saying that she was free to walk away because there never had been a valid marriage.
Raymond wanted the Crusaders first to attack Aleppo, a city in northern Syria, because Aleppo was one of the weaker cities, yet its capture would have given easier access to the county of Edessa.
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 Search Results for raymond burr - Encyclopædia Britannica
count of Toulouse (1093–1105) and marquis of Provence (1066–1105), the first—and one of the most effective—of the western European rulers who joined the First Crusade.
count of the crusaders' state of Tripoli (1152–87) and twice regent of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1174–77, 1184–85).
Count of Toulouse (1093–1105) and marquis of Provence (1066–1105).
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 SAVARI DE MAULEON - LoveToKnow Article on SAVARI DE MAULEON
In 1211 Savari de Maulon assisted Raymond VI.
count of Toulouse, and with him besieged Simon de Montfort in Castelnaudary.
Philip Augustus bought his services in 1212 and gave him command of a fleet which was destroyed in the Flemish port of Damme.
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 (Hatton d'Aquitaine TOULOUSE - Honor* TREGOSE )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Raymond III* Pons TOULOUSE (Count Of Toulouse) (0921 - 0960)
Raymond VII, Count of TOULOUSE (1156 - 1222)
William I* TOULOUSE (Count of Toulouse) (0745 - 0813)
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 Untitled Document
Eleanor was the eldest of three offspring of William X, the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers (also one of the first Troubadours poets) and Eleanor Chatelleraul de Rochefourcaulb.
During the Crusade, Louis and Eleanor met up with her uncle Raymond, who happened to be very handsome and better looking than Louis.
Matilda married Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria ; Eleanor married Alfonso VIII, King of Sicily, and later married Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse.
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