Raymond VI of Toulouse 1 2 3
- Born: 27 Oct 1156
- Marriage: Joan Plantagenet in Oct 1196 in Rouen, Caux, France
- Died: 2 Aug 1222 aged 65
Another name for Raymond was Raimond VII de Toulouse.
General Notes:
Raymond VI of Toulouse was count of Toulouse from 1194 to 1222.
Son of Raymond V and Constance, sister of king Louis VII of France, he succeeded his father in 1194. He immediately reestablished peace with the Kingdom of Aragon and Trencavel. He married Joan Plantagenet in Rouen in October, 1196.
In Toulouse, he maintained the communal freedoms, extended exemptions from taxation, and extended his protection to the communal territory. A poet and a man of culture, he hated war but did not lack energy, as shown by his dispute with the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau. Peter's assassination on January 15, 1208 led to Raymond's excommunication. The excommunication was lifted after Raymond humbled himself before the Pope.
After the capture and massacre of Béziers, the siege and capture of Carcassonne, and the death of Raymond-Roger of Trencavel, he moved his camp, was again excommunited by the Council of Montpellier in 1211, and tried to organize resistance against the Albigensian Crusade. More of a diplomat than a soldier, he was unable to stop of the advance of Simon de Montfort, who conquered Toulouse. Raymond was exiled to England.
In May of 1216, his son Raymond VII of Toulouse besieged Beaucaire and captured it on August 24. On September 12, 1217, he recaptured Toulouse, which Simon de Montfort immediately besieged again. Simon was killed there but his son Amaury VI of Montfort took his place. The failure of the crusade of Louis VIII permitted Raymond to recover most of his county.
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded: Comte de Toulouse, 1194.
Raymond married Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Henry II Curtmantle of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, in Oct 1196 in Rouen, Caux, France. (Joan Plantagenet was born in Oct 1165 in Angers Castle, Angers, Anjou, France, died on 4 Sep 1199 in Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, Berri, France and was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, Berri, France.) The cause of her death was childbirth.
Marriage Notes:
Raymond and Joan had three children, the eldest being Raymond VII of Toulouse. 3
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