Raymond III ( – 1219) was the 10th Viscount of

Turenne Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne , was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the ...

of the House of Comborn. He was a son of Viscount Raymond II and Helie of Castelnau. Raymond participated in the first military engagement of the

Albigensian Crusade The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (; 1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown ...

. Together with Count Guy II of Auvergne, the Archbishop of

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

and the Bishops of

Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region ...

Cahors Cahors (; oc, Caors ) is a commune in the western part of Southern France. It is the smallest prefecture among the 13 departments that constitute the Occitanie Region. The main city of the Lot department and the historical center of the Quer ...

and

Agen The communes of France, commune of Agen (, ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne Departments of France, department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. ...

, he led a Crusader army into the

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 ...

region in May 1209. After taking three smaller towns, their advance stopped in front of the castle of

Casseneuil Casseneuil (; oc, Cassanuèlh) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France. Sieges of 1209 and 1214 during the Albigensian Crusade In July 1214 Robert de Courçon, the papal legate, awarded the territories of Rode ...

. However, they terminated the coalition after forty days and withdrew to their lands. Raymond died due to a head injury.''Ex Chronico Gaufredi Vosiensis'' §23, in: ''Recueil des Historien des Gaules et de la France'' 12 (1867), p. 424. He was married to Helie, the heiress of Guy of Severac. Their children were: *Boson III (died 1209), co-regent in Turenne *

Raymond IV Raymond IV may refer to: * Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà (count, 1047–1098) *Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (r. 1094 - 1105), also count of Tripoli (1102–1105) *Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli Raymond IVKevin James Lewis, ''The Counts of Tripoli and ...

(died ), Viscount of Turenne *Raymond, lord of Servières and Malemort; father of Raymond V

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{{reflist 1165 births 1219 deaths People of the Albigensian Crusade Viscounts of Turenne