County of Toulouse

The first comites (counts) of Toulouse were the administrators of the city and its environs under the Merovingians. No succession of such royal appointees is known, though a few names survive to the present. With the Carolingians, the appointments (of both counts and duces, dukes) become more regular and more well-known, though the office soon fell out of the orbit of the royal court and became hereditary.

The hereditary Counts of Toulouse ruled the city of Toulouse and its surrounding county from the late 9th century until 1270. The counts and other family members were also at various times counts of Quercy, Rouergue, Albi, and Nîmes, and margraves of Gothia and Provence. Also, Raymond IV founded the Crusader state of Tripoli, and his descendants were counts there.

• Austrovald (fluorit 587)
• Felix (fluorit 660)
• Chorso (778–790)
• William I (790–806)
• Beggo (806–816)
  • Raymond Raphinel (811–818), his relation to the preceding and succeeding counts is unknown
• Berengar (816–835)
• Bernard I (835–842)
• Acfred (842–843)
• Fredelon (844–852)
  • William II (844–849), successfully opposed Fredelon
• Raymond I (852–863)
• Humfrid (863–865), deposed Raymond
  • Sunifred (863–865), appointed to oppose Humfrid
• Bernard II (865–877)
• Bernard III (877–886)
• Odo (886–918)
• Raymond II (918–924)
• Raymond Pons (924–950), traditionally called Raymond III
  • Raymond (III or IV) (950–961)
  • Hugh (961–972)
  • Raymond (IV or V) (972–978), recent research suggests adding these previously unknown counts, this would necessitate renumbering the succeeding Raymonds, though this is not done here
• William III (978–1037)
• Pons (1037–1061)
• William IV (1061–1094)
• Raymond IV (1094–1095)
• Bertrand (1095–1112)
• Alfonso Jordan (1119–1148)
• Raymond V (1148–1194)
• Raymond VI (1194–1222)
• Raymond VII (1222–1249)
• Joan of Toulouse and Alphonse of Poitiers (1249–1271)

At that point Toulouse passed to the Crown of France, by the terms of the Treaty of Languedoc.

Royal apanagists

• Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (d. 1737)

Further reading

• Genty, Roger. Les Comtes de Toulouse: Histoire et Traditions. Editions de Poliphile, 1987.

External links

• 'Les Régnants Toulousains": list (in French)
• The Counts of Toulouse, the Cathars of the Languedoc, Occitan and Occitania.: (in English)