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Alphonse (11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse (as such called Alphonse II) from 1249. As count of Toulouse, he also governed the Marquisate of Provence . Birth and early life. Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. [1] .
Contents. Alphonse of Poitiers. French count. Learn about this topic in these articles: participation in Crusade of Louis IX. In Crusades: The Crusades of St. Louis. …arrival of Louis’s third brother, Alphonse of Poitiers.
Alphonse of Poitiers or Alfonso or Alphonse (11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse (as Alfonso II) from 1247. Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile. He was a younger brother of Louis IX of France and an older brother of Charles I of Sicily.
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Alphonse (älfôNs´), 1220–71, count of Poitiers and of Toulouse, brother of King Louis IX of France. By his marriage to the daughter of Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, he inherited Raymond's lands in 1249. An able administrator, he did much to heal the wounds of the crusade against the Albigenses.
Count of Poitiers. Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers ( French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are: Coin of Richard the Lionheart as Count of Poitiers; it bears the inscriptions RICARDVS REX / PICTAVIENSIS.
Bibliography. Saintonge War. The Saintonge War was a feudal dynastic conflict that occurred between 1242 and 1243. It opposed Capetian forces supportive of King Louis IX 's brother Alphonse, Count of Poitiers and those of Hugh X of Lusignan, Raymond VII of Toulouse and Henry III of England.
ALPHONSE, COUNT OF TOULOUSE AND OF POITIERS (1220-1271), the son of Louis VIII., king of France, and brother of St Louis, was born on the Ilth of November 1220. He joined the county of Toulouse to his appanage of Poitou and Auvergne, on the death, in September 124 9, of Raymond VII., whose daughter Jeanne he had married in 1237.
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