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William married twice, and produced two legitimate sons; neither, however, survived infancy, leaving daughter Philippa as his heiress. As Toulouse had no precedent of female inheritance, this raised a question with regard to succession. In 1088, when William departed for the Holy Land, he left his
197:, 2 vol, Poitiers, 1966, vol 2, p 727-750, states that the marriage to an unnamed king of Aragon reported by a non-contemporary chronicler is imaginary, even though it has appeared broadly in modern histories, and he cites J de Salarrullana de Dios, 193:, vol 19, 1993, p 315, concludes that, contrary to prior assumptions, William IX was certainly Philippa of Toulouse's only husband. Szabolcs de Vajay, in "Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon et Agnes de Poitou dans l'histoire et la légende", 201:, Saragossa, 1907, vol I, nr 51, p 204-207 to document that his prior wife, Felicie, was clearly still married to Sancho months before his death, thus making the marriage several years earlier to Philippa completely unsupportable. 189:). However, two recent historians who have made a detailed study of the issue have dismissed this claim. Ruth E Harvey, in "The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine", 154:, to govern in his stead (and, it was later claimed, to succeed him). Within five years, William was dead, and Raymond took power – although, after Philippa married 165:, by his daughter's marriage to William IX of Aquitaine, and Eleanor's descendants continued to lay claim to Toulouse based on descent from William IV. 359: 543: 158:, they laid claim to Toulouse and fought, off and on, for years to try to reclaim it from Raymond and his children. 458: 433: 617: 553: 548: 513: 498: 478: 473: 468: 463: 73: 538: 518: 503: 493: 453: 438: 352: 329: 533: 423: 612: 508: 627: 558: 418: 622: 408: 383: 563: 393: 345: 134: 483: 155: 523: 448: 151: 602: 413: 403: 607: 443: 162: 138: 130: 118: 98: 8: 388: 181:
It has been claimed that William married daughter Philippa off to the King of Aragon,
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Documentos correspondientes al reinado de Sancho Ramirez
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Index

Noble family
Rouergue
Philippa, Countess of Toulouse
Pons of Toulouse
Almodis de la Marche
Count of Toulouse
Margrave of Provence
Duke of Narbonne
Pons of Toulouse
Almodis de la Marche
Robert, Count of Mortain
Philippa
Raymond of Saint-Gilles
William IX of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Sancho Ramirez
Cheyette 2004
Hill & Hill 1962
Cheyette 2004
House of Rouergue
Pons
Count of Toulouse
Raymond IV
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counts of
Toulouse
Torson
William I

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