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unusual facts about Raymond I, Count of Toulouse


Raymond of Toulouse

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


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.

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.

Raymond I, Count of Pallars and Ribagorza

His wife may be the Giniguentes, daughter of Aznar Dat, mentioned in the Codex of Roda, but the text is ambiguous and this may instead be his daughter-in-law.

He lost much of Ribagorza, including Roda and Montpedrós, to Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca in 907 and thereafter ruled mainly just Pallars, which had always been his political base.


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