Everything about Raymond Vii Of Toulouse totally explained
Raymond VII of Saint-Gilles (July 1197 –
27 September 1249) was
Count of Toulouse,
Duke of Narbonne and
Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death.
He was the son of
Raymond VI of Toulouse and
Joan of England. During the
Albigensian Crusade in May of
1216, he set out from
Marseille and besieged
Beaucaire, which he captured on
August 24. He fought to reconquer the county of Toulouse from
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and later Simon's son
Amaury VI of Montfort.
Raymond VII married firstly, in March 1211, Sancha of Aragon, the daughter of King
Alfonso II of Aragon. They had one daughter,
Joan, and were divorced in
1241. In
1243 Raymond married Marguerite de Lusignan, the daughter of
Hugh X of Lusignan and
Isabella of Angouleme. They had no children and were divorced
August 3,
1245.
He succeeded his father in
1222. At the moment of his accession, he and the new
count of Foix,
Roger Bernard II the Great, besieged
Carcassonne. On
14 September 1224, the
Albigensian Crusaders surrendered and the war came to an end, each southern lord making peace with the church. However, in
1225, the council of
Bourges excommunicated him and launched a
crusade against him, the
king of France,
Louis VIII, called
the Lion, wanting to renew the conflict in order to enforce his royal rights in
Languedoc. Roger-Bernard tried to keep the peace, but the king rejected his embassy and the counts of Foix and Toulouse took up arms again. The war was largely a discontinuous series of skirmishes and, in January
1229, Raymond, defeated, was forced to sign the
Treaty of Meaux, by which he ceded the former viscounty of
Trencavel to the king and his daughter
Joan was forced to marry
Alphonse, brother of the new king, Louis the Lion's successor,
Louis IX.
When Raymond died, Alphonse became count of Toulouse, and after Alphonse's death the county was annexed by
France. Raymond VII was buried beside his mother Joan in
Fontevrault Abbey.
Sources
- Macé, Laurent. "Raymond VII of Toulouse: The Son of Queen Joanne, 'Young Count' and Light of the World." The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, edd. Marcus Bull and Catherine Léglu. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005. ISBN 1 84383 114 7.
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