Count of Toulouse

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That's to say that- To the Counts of Toulouse who tolerated the Cathars, much to the annoyance of the northern nobles and the Pope himself-

Mm-hmm

... who, uh, sent people down from the north to put down this uprising.

he also instituted assizes at which questions of ecclesiastical patronage dispossession and disputed succession were to be decided by a jury of neighbours assizes of derin presentment novel de sison mort in the same year he took into his own hands all the castles in england and normandy and endeavoured to extend the policy to his other possessions the strongholds of the chief rebels were dismantled but the estates were restored to their owners in spite of their treason henry placed his own castellans in the castles and gave charge to the itinerant justices to inspect them in their circuits in eleven seventy eight he appointed a bench of five judges to hear appeals with resort in the last case to himself in full council in eleven seventy nine his faithful justiciar richard de lucy who had served him for twenty-five years retired to a monastery and the king altered the circuits and appointed ranulf of glanville to the vacant post in eleven eighty one he gave the chancellorship to his natural son geoffrey who had so faithfully served him in the war and also caused him to be chosen bishop of lincoln in the same year the king issued the assize of arms by which he gave explicit directions for the arming of all the freeholders thus reviving and strengthening the national militia which had done such good service in his reign town folk as well as yeomen he compelled to provide themselves with arms and the liability of each man was to be estimated by juries in eleven eighty three he crushed another rebellion of his faithless sons the younger henry again jealous of his brothers made open war upon richard and geoffrey the old king feared that the revolt would spread and imprisoned the chief barons who had previously revolted then he endeavoured to mediate between his sons who were constantly taking new positions of hostility to each other and to him the trouble ended for the time with the death of the young henry in june after this the king gave no such great power to his sons he was able again to turn to england and in eleven eighty four he issued a new forest law the assize of woodstock which greatly increased the burden he had already laid upon the freeholders by this act every free tenant who lived in a forest shire was compelled to attend the forest courts as well as those of the county the forest jurisdiction was organized on a system parallel to that of the ordinary local courts and the forest law was constantly made more severe as the forest area was continually encroaching upon the baron's lands the king was determined that there at least he would act entirely without control and it is in his forest customs alone that henry appears in the light of an arbitrary despot he was soon recalled to his foreign dominions a new danger was arising his sons still continued to quarrel john now entering into the struggles but behind them was a more formidable opponent philip augustus the astute and warlike king of the french who had succeeded his feeble father louis the seventh in eleven eighty in his youth henry had wisely advised him and aided him when he seemed near to destruction from his mighty vassals but philip had one fixed aim to make his kingly power supreme over all the lands between the channel and the pyrenees and no scruple stood in his way he aided in open or in secret every insurrection against henry and himself constantly levied avowed or underhand war on him in eleven eighty six geoffrey of brittany rebelled but soon after he died and peace was for a time patched up by the news of the capture of jerusalem by the infidels october third eleven eighty eight letters imploring aid were sent by the popes and by the military orders of the temple and hospital and the kings were shamed into a peace by the appeal of their fellow christians in the east both henry and philip took the cross and richard with more genuine intention vowed to rescue the holy city from saladin a great council held at gettington decreed that all men should give a tenth of their goods for the crusade this was the first time that personal property or movables was taxed baldwin archbishop of canterbury made a special visit to wales preaching in the most remote valleys the obligation of the holy war and at the same time exercising his authority as metropolitan over the welsh church Before the expedition could start, war broke out again.

Richard quarreled with the Count of Toulouse, and Philip invaded the territory of Henry's vassals.

Henry in vain tried to make peace.

Before long both combatants turned on him.

Before the expedition could start, war broke out again.

Richard quarreled with the Count of Toulouse, and Philip invaded the territory of Henry's vassals.

Henry in vain tried to make peace.

Before long both combatants turned on him.

And the parents came after her instantly after her husband died.

Count of Toulouse thought he was doing her a favor.

Instead, he literally took away her power and plunged her into instant chaos where it was immediate revival.

And no

doubt the Count of Toulouse thought that he could marry Blanche and be King of France, right? It was like, it made me think of Odysseus and Penelope and how while he was gone, everyone wanted to, everyone was trying to get her to marry them.

They were trying to court her and win her hand.

And she was putting people off by weaving.

He took for second wife Constance, daughter of Alfonso, King of Castile and Leon.

He gave his sister in marriage to Raymond V, Count of Toulouse.

Thus he did something to counteract the Angevin influence in the south.

He made a marriage treaty with his great rival, by which his little daughter Margaret and Henry's eldest boy were betrothed.

The next few months were spent in making preparation and ordinances for the expedition.

Even then, however, the fiery impetuosity of Richard could not be restrained.

He was using the time of waiting by paying off old scores against the Count of Toulouse and Philip complained to Henry, who could neither justify nor control his son.

Philip took occasion thereupon to invade Berry, which was part of the heritage of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Before the expedition could start, war broke out again.

Richard quarreled with the Count of Toulouse, and Philip invaded the territory of Henry's vassals.

Henry in vain tried to make peace.

Before long, both combatants turned on him.

Yeah, but then, you know, what I love is that, like I said, as I was rereading this today, right after that scene is when you learn that there's another rumor that could have gone around that would have been even worse.

And I can tell about that because that's in the history books too, that the Count of Toulouse, Raymond, or Ramon as they would call him, Raymond of Toulouse, he was really infatuated with Blanche and he was one of the people who wrote all these troubadour songs about her and so they went to Avignon which is a really beautiful town in southern France which used to be also where the second pope they used to catholic church had two popes and so Avignon is where The second pope, the French pope, had his headquarters.

And it's got these very high stone walls to protect the pope, the papal palace.

And it had two towers, it had a bridge with two towers to protect the city.

He was really into

that.

And so when the going got rough, Count of Toulouse, Raymond, and his troops left.

And so then the siege ended.

He took for second wife Constance, daughter of Alfonso, King of Castile and Leon.

He gave his sister in marriage to Raymond V, Count of Toulouse.

Thus he did something to counteract the Angevin influence in the south.

He made a marriage treaty with his great rival, by which his little daughter Margaret and Henry's eldest boy were betrothed.

The next few months were spent in making preparation and ordinances for the expedition.

Even then, however, the fiery impetuosity of Richard could not be restrained.

He was using the time of waiting by paying off old scores against the Count of Toulouse, and Philip complained to Henry, who could neither justify nor control his son.

Philip took occasion thereupon to invade Berry, which was part of the heritage of Eleanor of Aquitaine.