Pons, Count of Toulouse

Template:Short description Template:Infobox nobility Pons (II) WilliamTemplate:Efn (1019–1060) was the Count of Toulouse from 1037. He was the eldest son and successor of William III Taillefer and Emma of Provence.Template:Sfn 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, Mayor, daughter of King Sancho III of Navarre, in 1037.Template:Sfn She either died not too long after or was repudiated. Between 1040 and 1045,Template:Sfn he married Almodis de La Marche,Template:Sfn former wife of Hugh V of Lusignan, but he repudiated her in 1053. They had:

• William IV, Count of ToulouseTemplate:Sfn
• Raymond IV, Count Saint-Gilles,Template:Sfn succeeded his brother.
• Hugh, abbot of Saint-GillesTemplate:Sfn
• Almodis, married Pierre, Count of MelgueilTemplate:Sfn

Pons married a third time to Marjorie, daughter of Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre.Template:Sfn

Pons died in Toulouse and was buried in Saint-Sernin, probably late in 1060 or early in 1061.

Sources

• Lewis, Archibald R. The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.

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