Pons, Count of Toulouse

Summary

Pons (II) William[a] (1019–1060) was the Count of Toulouse from 1037. He was the eldest son and successor of William III Taillefer and Emma of Provence.[1] He thus inherited the title marchio Provincæ. He is known to have owned many allods and he relied on Roman, Salic, and Gothic law.

Pons, Count of Toulouse
Born1019
Died1060 (aged 40–41)
Toulouse
Noble familyHouse of Rouergue
Spouse(s)Majore
Almodis de La Marche
FatherWilliam III of Toulouse
MotherEmma of Provence

Already in 1030, he possessed a lot of power in the Albigeois. In 1037, he gave many allodial churches and castles, including one half of that of Porta Spina, in the Albigeois, Nimois, and Provence as a bridal gift to his wife Majore.

In 1038, he split the purchase of the Diocese of Albi with the Trencavel family. In 1040, he donated property in Diens to Cluny. In 1047, he first appears as count palatine in a charter donating Moissac to Cluny.

Pons married his first wife, Marjorie (d.1044),[2] in 1022. They had;

  • Pons the Younger, did not inherit his county or march.

In 1040, he married, Almodis de La Marche,[3] former wife of Hugh V of Lusignan, but he too repudiated her in 1053. They had:

Pons died in Toulouse and was buried in Saint-Sernin, probably late in 1060 or early in 1061.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Raymond Pons was "Pons I." In Latin it is Pontius or Poncius and Ponce in Spanish.

References edit

  1. ^ Graham-Leigh 2005, p. table 9.
  2. ^ Graham-Leigh 2005, table 2.
  3. ^ a b c d Graham-Leigh 2005, table 5.
  4. ^ Edgington & Sweetenham 2011, p. 391.

Sources edit

  • Edgington, Susan; Sweetenham, Carol, eds. (2011). The Chanson D'Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Routledge.
  • Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. The Boydell Press.
  • Lewis, Archibald R. The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.



Pons, Count of Toulouse
House of Toulouse
Born: 991 Died: 1060
Preceded by Counts of Toulouse
1037–1060
Succeeded by