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Constance of France. A depiction of Raymond VI at the Salle des Illustres in Toulouse. Raymond VI ( Occitan: Ramon; 27 October 1156 – 2 August 1222) was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil (as Raymond IV) from 1173 to 1190.
Apr 3, 2024 · Raymond VI (born Oct. 27, 1156—died August 1222, Toulouse, Fr.) was the count of Toulouse from 1194, who at first tolerated the heretical Cathari in Languedoc, then (1209) joined the Albigensian Crusade against them and afterward fought the crusaders to save his own dominions. The son of Count Raymond V, Raymond VI was a nephew of King Louis ...
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Hated by Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse and by many Toulousains he abandoned Toulouse on 2 April 1211, after the Crusaders laid siege to Lavaur. Soon afterwards he instructed all clerics to leave the city of Toulouse.
views 1,530,407 updated. Raymond VI, 1156–1222, count of Toulouse (c.1194–1222). His tolerant attitude toward the Albigenses resulted in his repeated excommunication, although he temporarily made peace with the church in 1209. Attacked (1211) by Simon de Montfort, he received the support of his brother-in-law Peter II of Aragón.
Raymond V, a patron of the troubadours, died in 1194, and was succeeded by his son, Raymond VI. Following the 1208 assassination of the Papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, Raymond was excommunicated and the County of Toulouse was placed under interdict by Pope Innocent III.
- 778 (fief), 1681 (courtesy title)
When Raymond VI Comte de Toulouse was born on 27 October 1156, in Saint-Gilles, Nîmes, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, his father, Raymond V Comte de Toulouse, was 32 and his mother, Constance of France Comtesse de Toulouse, was 32. He married Joan of England Queen of Sicily in October 1196, in Rouen, France.
Raymond VI, COUNT OF TOULOUSE, b. 1156; d. 1222; succeeded his father, Raymond V, in 1195. He was a debauched and sceptical prince, who successively put away three wives, taking as his fourth Jeanne, sister of Richard Cur de Lion.
