County of Avignon

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A county of Avignon existed in the 10th century, before the county of Provence was formed from the estate of the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy - with Avignon and the county of Arles as the heartland.

Counts of Avignon were:

• Boso († after 936), Count of Avignon, Margrave of Tuscien , grandson of Duke Hugbert of Transjurania , great-grandson of Boso of Arles ( Bosonids )
• Boso II. († 965/967) 935 Count of Avignon, 949 Count of Arles , married a granddaughter of Emperor Louis the Blind ( Buviniden ).

Bosos II. Descendants are the Counts of Provence, the Margraves of Provence and the Counts of Forcalquier (to whom Avignon then belonged until 1209); their heirs are the Counts of Toulouse and the Counts of Barcelona.

After the formation of Provence, Avignon was downgraded to a vice-county. The representatives of the counts ruled here until the end of the 12th century. The city of Avignon became independent after the commune was founded in 1129 with the approval of the Count of Forcalquier .

The title of Count of Avignon also bore:

• Bertrand de Saint-Gilles , † January 1112 , 1105 Count of Toulouse , 1108 Crusader, 1109 Count of Tripoli , Count of Rodez , Viviers and Avignon.

The rule of Avignon was later divided for a long time between Charles of Anjou as Count of Provence and Alfons of Poitiers as Count of Toulouse . When King Philip IV inherited Alfonso's part in 1290 to Charles II of Anjou , the area was reunited. Charles's great-granddaughter Johanna I of Naples sold Avignon on June 19, 1348 for 80,000 florins to Pope Clement VI.

Vice Count of Avignon

• Aldebert, 986 iudex Provinciae , † before 1032
• Adalelme, 1002 iudex Provinciae in Avignon, his brother
• Bérenger, 1025–1029 vicecomes (probably from Avignon), 1045 vice count of Sisteron , 1003-around 1036 juge de Provence , † before 1065, his son
• Bérenger, Vice Count of Avignon and Sisteron, † before 1075, his son
• Guillaume, Vice Count of Avignon, † before 1096, his brother
• Laugier (Leodegar), Vice Count of Avignon, † before 1099, his brother
• Rostaing Bérenger, Vice Count of Avignon, testified in 1064/96, his brother
• Rostaing Bérenger, Vice Count of Avignon, † before 1105, son of the younger Bérenger
• Geoffroy, Vice Count of Avignon 1096/1146, his son
• Bérenger, Vice Count of Avognon 1123–1142, † before 1195
• Guillaume Bérenger or Guillaume Geoffroy, Vice Count of Avignon 1123–1142 / 1195, his brother