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unusual facts about Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse


Raymond of Toulouse

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


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.

Massacre at Béziers

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse was able to switch sides in time and joined the crusaders at Valence.

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 VI, Count of Toulouse

6. January 1204, in Perpignan, he married his last wife Eleanor of Aragon, daughter of King Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile.

Born at Saint-Gilles, Gard, he was a son of Raymond V and Constance of France.


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