Philippa of Toulouse

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Philippa of Toulouse (* around 1073; † November 28, 1118 in Fontevrault Abbey , France ) was Countess of Toulouse in her own right and through her marriage to William IX. Duchess of Aquitaine .

Life

family

Philippa was born around 1073 as the daughter of Count Wilhelm IV of Toulouse and his wife Emma von Mortain . She was the only surviving child of Wilhelm and therefore, according to the laws of the County of Toulouse, his heiress. In 1088 William took part in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, leaving his brother Raymond of Saint-Gilles as regent. There are allegations that he his daughter with before his departure king of Aragon married to exclude them from the succession, but this is highly unlikely since King Sancho still at the time of his death in 1094 with his wife Felicia of Roucy was married .

Little is known about Philippa's childhood. It is known that they Wilhelm IX. of Aquitaine did not marry before the death of her father and the successor of her uncle in 1094. Thus little is known about her life before her father died, her disinheritance, and the arrangement of her marriage. Historians, who claim that Philippa was married to King Sancho, argue that her departure from Toulouse prevented her from asserting her legacy and that after Sancho's death she was free to choose a second husband. What is certain, however, is that when Count Wilhelm Philippa's deaths, claims were ignored and Raimund became Count of Toulouse.

Marriage to William of Aquitaine

When Raymond IV of Toulouse took part in the First Crusade in the autumn of 1096 , he left his son Bertrand to rule the country. In the spring of 1098, Wilhelm and Philippa conquered the city of Toulouse . It was there that Philippa gave birth to her first child in the following year: Wilhelm the Tolosaner . In 1099 Wilhelm took part in a crusade, while Philippa was installed as regent in Poitou. To Philippa's horror, her husband exchanged Toulouse in 1100 with her cousin Bertrand for a large sum of money, which he used to participate in a crusade . Philippa had to leave her homeland and moved to the capital Poitiers , from where she ruled Aquitaine in the absence of her husband. Wilhelm recaptured Toulouse in 1113 after Bertrand's death. Since then, Philippa has ruled largely from there.

After Wilhelm's return, he and Philippa lived happily together for a while and had other children. Philippa particularly focused on the faith, especially the teachings of Robert von Arbrissel , the founder of Fontevrault Abbey, which she also supported financially. Her interest in the doctrine of Robert von Arbrissel and the increasing dissatisfaction of Wilhelm, who had also fallen in love with Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard, led Wilhelm to cast his wife in 1115. Philippa retired to Fontevrault Abbey, where she befriended her husband's first wife, Irmgard von Anjou. There she died on November 28, 1118.

progeny

From her marriage to Wilhelm IX. of Aquitaine Philippa had two sons and five daughters:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruth E. Harvey: The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine . In: Journal of Medieval History . No. 19 , 1993, pp. 315 .
  2. ↑ John Doran; Damian J. Smith: Pope Innocent II (1130-43): The World vs the City . Routledge, 2016, pp. 153 .
personal data
SURNAME Philippa of Toulouse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Toulouse and Duchess of Aquitaine
DATE OF BIRTH around 1073
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1118
Place of death Fontevrault Monastery