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5 unusual facts about Count of Toulouse


Abraham of Aragon

Shortly after the Council of Béziers, in 1246 had forbidden Jewish physicians to practise, Abraham was requested by Alphonse Capet, count of Poitou and Toulouse, and brother of Louis IX of France, to treat him for an infection of the eye.

Raymond of Toulouse

:Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197 – 1249), Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence

:Raymond I, Count of Toulouse (died 865), Count of Limoges, Rouergue, Quercy, Toulouse and Albi

:Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156 – 1222), count of Toulouse and marquis of Provence

William of Septimania

Pepin invested him with Toulouse, while Charles installed Fredelo there.


Pope Innocent III

At the beginning of his pontificate, he focused on the Albigenses, also known as the Cathars, a sect that had become widespread in southernwestern France, then under the control of local princes, such as the Counts of Toulouse.


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