Ermengol (or Ermengaud) (870-937) was a son of
Odo of Toulouse Odo (or Eudes) (also ''Odon'' or ''Odonus'') was the count of Toulouse from 872 to 918 or 919, when he died.
He was a son of Raymond I of Toulouse and Bertha, or of Bernard II of Toulouse
Bernard II (died 877), known as the Calf, was the count of ...
and Garsindis. His father gave him the
County of Rouergue and
Quercy
Quercy (; oc, Carcin , locally ) is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Au ...
in 906 and he governed it to his death. His brother was
Raymond II of Toulouse Raymond II (died 924) was the Count of Toulouse, Viscount of Nîmes, Nîmes, and Albi. He was the, probably elder, son of Odo of Toulouse and Garsenda.
In 886, at the death of Bernard II of Toulouse, Bernard the Calf, he succeeded to the comital ti ...
and together they governed the vast patrimony of their house in the first half of the tenth century.
In 930, he donated property to the abbey of
Vabres in a charter dated to the seventh year of
King Rudolph bearing only the title of ''comes'' (count). In January 932, he made a similar donation with the title of ''princeps'' (prince). He was probably regarded as ''
princeps Gothiae'', a title which was to run in his family in the tenth century. He and his nephew
Raymond Pons of Toulouse Raymond Pons (''Regimundus Pontio''; died after 944), who may be numbered Raymond III or Pons I,He has traditionally been called Raymond III, but with the discovery of at least one and perhaps two additional Raymonds, this numerical designation is u ...
, together with
Sancho IV of Gascony
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, went to the court of Rudolph that year to do homage for their lands. This did not have the desired effect, however, of satisfying royal desires for influence in the south and Rudolph accompanied
Ebalus of Aquitaine
Ebalus, or Ebles Manzer, or Manser (c. 870 – 935), was Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine on two occasions: from 890 to 892; and then from 902 until his death in 935 (Poitou) and from 928 until 932 (Aquitaine).
Early life
Ebles was an illeg ...
against the
Vikings
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
a short while later, strengthening the
Ramnulfid dynasty against that of the Rouergue in the fight for supremacy in
Aquitaine
Aquitaine ( , , ; oc, Aquitània ; eu, Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Aguiéne''), archaic Guyenne or Guienne ( oc, Guiana), is a historical region of southwestern France and a former administrative region of the country. Since 1 January ...
.
[Lewis, 187.]
Ermengol and his wife Adelais (Adalaiz) had two known sons and one daughter, though charters of his eldest son indicate that he had other sons besides his two heirs. The eldest son was
Raymond
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( ...
, who inherited Rouergue, and the second was Hugh, who received Quercy. His daughter is hypothesized to have married
Sunifred II, Count of Barcelona.
Notes
Sources
*Lewis, Archibald R.
The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050'. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.
870 births
937 deaths
Counts of Toulouse
House of Rouergue
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