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Raymond VI

Type Figure Region Toulouse Time 1156–1222 Also known as Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse

Raymond VI (1156–1222), Count of Toulouse and Margrave of Provence, was one of the most powerful secular lords in Languedoc.…

Timeline

  1. 1156–1208Toulouse · OccitanieRaymond VI inherited extensive lands in Toulouse and Provence, maintained a relatively independent feudal power in Languedoc, and repeatedly clashed with the papacy over heresy.
  2. 1209–1210Languedoc · LanguedocAfter Pope Innocent III launched the Albigensian Crusade, Raymond VI, though he at one point swore to convert, was still regarded by the Crusader leaders as a heretic protector and became the symbolic leader of the southern resistance.
  3. 1211–1220Toulouse · OccitanieAfter 1211 Raymond VI repeatedly fought Crusader commanders such as Simon de Montfort and allied with King Peter II of Aragon. In 1216 his son Raymond VII besieged Beaucaire, and the southern nobility continued to resist northern forces and the expansion of the Inquisition around Toulouse.
  4. 1221–1222Toulouse · OccitanieIn his later years Raymond VI entrusted the main resistance efforts to his son Raymond VII, dying in 1222; the southern lands and the anti-Crusade cause passed to his successor.

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