PC ID # 222

Starts with 4 fiefs

Economic Power Ranking: 9

Speaks F3

Diocese: NA

Highest Title: 13 Vicomte de Albi

Overlordships: None

Coat of Arms:

This is the shield of Joan (1220-1271), daughter of Raymond VII, Comte de Toulouse, married to Alphonso, Comte de Poitou & Toulouse (1241)

Starting fiefs:

Fief Code               Fief Name               Fief Code               Fief Name               

FRO06                   Sauveterre              FRO07                   Villefranche            

FTL01                   Albi                    FTL05                   Muret
                   

Notes: Raymond, the present Count of Toulouse, Lord of Lautrec, and much else besides, is a scion of an ancient house, once --and not so long ago-- among the most powerful in all Christendom. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Counts of Toulouse, often in alliance with the Catalans and Aragonese, dominated southern France from Gascony to the Rhone, and well beyond into Provence, maintaining a brilliant court, fostering commerce, and patronizing the arts, most notably the troubadour poets of the Languedoc. But all this came to an end when they proved unable to stem the Albigensian heresy, which swept their lands with such fervor that a Holy Crusade was required to extirpate it. In the process, the House of Toulouse was deprived of most of its holdings only regaining a portion of their ancestral lands by force of arms in 1218. Since that time, the family has achieved no greater distinction than any other in France, but still stands on its claims to the Counties of Quercy , Rouergue , and Toulouse , despite the fact that King Philippe himself holds those fiefs.