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Raymond (Name of seven Counts)

the name of seven Counts of Toulouse. RAYMOND I. reigned 852- RAYMOND VI., son of RAYMOND V., born in 1156, succeeded 1194, and, being a friend of the Albigenses, was twice excommunicated excommunicated, 1208 and 1211, and deestates by Simon de Montfort, 1218; fort, 1218; died 1222. RAYMOND VII., RAYMOND VI., and last Count of Toulouse Toulouse, was born 1197, and after with his father for the recovery of his possessions, vanquished Simon de Montfort in 1224. He was so enfeebled by these continual wars, however, that he submitted to a humiliating peace with the Pope and the King of France in 1229. He died 1242, leaving his estates to his only daughter, Jeanne, who had married Alphonse , Count of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX.