Raymond Vii Of Toulouse

He was the son of Raymond VI Of Toulouse and Joan Of England . During the Albigensian Crusade in May of 1216 , he left from Marseilles and besieged Beaucaire , which he captured on August 24 . He fought to reconquer Toulouse from Simon De Montfort, 5th Earl Of Leicester and later Simon's son Amaury VI Of Montfort .

Raymond VII married firstly in 1211 to Sancha of Aragon, the daughter of King Alfonso II Of Aragon . They had one daughter, Joan , and were divorced in 1241 . In 1243 Raymond married Marguerite de Lusignan, the daughter of Hugh X Of Lusignan and Isabella Of Angouleme . They had no children and were divorced August 3 , 1245 .

He succeeded his father in 1222 . At the moment of his accession, he and the new Count Of Foix , Roger Bernard II The Great , besieged Carcassone . On 14 September 1224 , the Albigensian Crusade rs surrendered and the war came to an end, each southern lord making peace with the church. However, in 1225 , the council of Bourges Excommunicated him and launched a Crusade against him, the King Of France , Louis VIII , called ''the Lion'', wanting to renew the conflict in order to enforce his royal rights in Languedoc . Roger-Bernard tried to keep the peace, but the king rejected his embassy and the counts of Foix and Toulouse took up arms again. The war was largely a discontinuous series of skirmishes and, in January 1229 , Raymond, defeated, was forced to sign the Treaty Of Meaux , by which he ceded the former viscounty of Trencavel to the king and his daughter Joan was forced to marry Alphonse , brother of the new king, Louis the Lion's successor, Louis IX .

When Raymond died, Alphonse became count of Toulouse, and after Alphonse's death the county was annexed by France . Raymond VII was buried beside his mother Joan in Fontevrault Abbey .

	Before	Raymond VI
	Title	Count Of Toulouse
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