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Count of Toulouse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William IV of Toulouse (c. 1040 – 1094) was Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence, and Duke of Narbonne from 1061 to 1094. He was the son of Pons of Toulouse and Almodis de la Marche.[1] He was married to Emma of Mortain, daughter of Robert, Count of Mortain, who gave him one daughter, Philippa.[2]
William IV, Count of Toulouse | |
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Born | c. 1040 |
Died | 1094 (aged 53–54) |
Noble family | Rouergue |
Spouse(s) | Emma of Mortain |
Issue | Philippa, Countess of Toulouse William-Jordan (illegitimate) |
Father | Pons of Toulouse |
Mother | Almodis de la Marche |
William married twice, and produced two legitimate sons;[citation needed] neither, however, survived infancy, leaving daughter Philippa as his heiress. As Toulouse had no precedent of female inheritance, this raised a question with regard to succession. In 1088, when William departed for the Holy Land, he left his brother, Raymond of Saint-Gilles, to govern in his stead (and, it was later claimed, to succeed him). Within five years, William was dead, and Raymond took power[lower-alpha 1] – although, after Philippa married William IX of Aquitaine, they laid claim to Toulouse and fought, off and on, for years to try to reclaim it from Raymond and his children.[3]
He was the great-grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, by his daughter's marriage to William IX of Aquitaine, and Eleanor's descendants continued to lay claim to Toulouse based on descent from William IV.[citation needed]
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