Count of Toulouse
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 . He thus inherited the title marchio Provincæ . He is known to have owned many allods and he relied on Roman , Salic , and Gothic law .
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), in 1022.
They had;
Pons the Younger, did not inherit his county or march.
In 1040, he married, Almodis de La Marche , 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
^ Raymond Pons was "Pons I." In Latin it is Pontius or Poncius and Ponce in Spanish.
References
Sources
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
1 Count through marriage2 Count through conquest