Count Raimond TOULOUSE, I
- Born: Abt 843, Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France
- Died: Abt 862, Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France
 Other names for Raimond were Raymond and TOULOUSE Count.
Ancestral File Number: 9HMK-81. User ID: 9681789568.
General Notes:
Count of TOULOUSE Reigned 852-Abt 862.
BOOKS
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol X, p65, Toulouse: "...Founded in ancient times...capital of Visigoths...included in the Merovingian Kingdom.. ..chief town of the Carolingian Kingdom of Aquitaine, and after 778 became the seat of the feudal countship of Toulouse. Its counts adhered to the Cathari heresy and resisted the anti-heretic crusade in the 13th century..."
Macropaedia, Vol VII, p614, France History of: "...The County of Toulouse datedfrom 849; at that time under Counts Fredelon (849-852) and Raymond I (852-862), it included the areas around Toulouse and Rodez, some territory in the Pyrenees, and Limousin. The county became disunited after Raymond's death and remained so until the 11th century, when Counts William III Taillefer (died 1037) and Pons (1037-1061) reunited it..."
The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p2768, Toulouse: "...It was the capital of the Visigoths from 419 until the conquest by Clovis I in 508 and was capital of the Carolingian Kingdom of Aquitaine from 781 until 843. In 843 Toulouse and the surrounding area became a separate county...In the late 12th Century the counts of Toulouse were suzerains of practically the entire region of Languedoc..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File 9HMK-81 Raimond Also Raymond, Ver 4.10 Raimond I Born Abt 843 Died.
Marriage Information:
Raimond married Bertha De REMY. (Bertha De REMY was born about 845 in , , France.)
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