Guilhem I (St Wm Of The Desert) Count TOULOUSE

751 - 812  (61 years)

• Name	Guilhem I (St Wm Of The Desert) Count TOULOUSE
  Birth	751	Languedoc, Toulouse, France
  Gender	Male
  AFN	9GFM-K5
  Alt. Birth	Abt 751
  	Alt. Birth
  Alt. Birth	Abt 765
  	Alt. Birth
  Event	790
  	Event
  	Chorson, the Count of Toulouse, was forced into a disadvantageous agreement by Oldaric of Gascony that so displeased Charlemagne (William's cousin) that he took away Chorson's title and gave it to William.
  Titled	Between 790 and 812
  	Titled
  	Comte (Count) de Toulouse
  Event	Abt 791
  	Event
  	Regained control of Gascony for the crown and banished Odalric of Gascony into permanent exile.
  Event	793
  	Event
  	Defeated by the Moors near Carcassonne
  Event	793
  	Event
  	Was able to hold Narbonne and Gerona against the attack of the Moors
  Event	Between 801 and 803
  	Event
  	Led and expedition with Louis "the Pious" that crossed the Pyrenees and captured Barcelona and the Castle of Tarrassa.
  Alt. Death	812
  	Alt. Death
  Relationship (J,M&L)	Relationship (J,M&L)
  	36th Great-grandparent
  Titled	Titled
  	"Au Court Nez"
  Titled	Titled
  	"le Saint"
  Titled	Titled
  	Duc (Duke) d'Aquitaine (Guyenne)
  Titled	Titled
  	Marquis de Septimanie (Septimania)
  Name	Guillaume Comte De TOULOUSE
  Name	Guillaume I "Au Court Nez" Marquis De GELLONE
  Name	Guillem (St. Guillem) Count Of TOULOUSE
  Name	William Count Of TOULOUSE
  Name	William I (St.) Count Of TOULOUSE
  Name	William I Count Of TOULOUSE
  _UID	27802D52EBE24B6999E8365E5F9ADFB347DE
  Death	28 May 812	As A Monk At Abbey Of Gellone, Herault, France
  Person ID	I9518	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Makhir I (Thierry) Ha-David Count Of TOULOUSE, Count Of Autun,   b. 730, Babylon, Iraq d. 804, Toulouse, France (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Aude (Aldana) Of AUSTRASIA, Princess Of The Franks,   b. Bef 724, France d. Bef 804 (Age ~ 80 years)
  Marriage	Abt 753
  Family ID	F386	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Bagdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book _A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900_ (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by historians. Regardless, William was an impressive figure about whose career the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the 'Saint William cycle' of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death.According to Pierre Betourn‚ d Haucourt in "Heraldique et Genealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonised as St. William of the Desert (St.Guilhem du Desert), * ca. 752, +812. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-D‚sert) were transported to New York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metroploitan Museum of Art earlier this century;. Saint Guillaume, Count de Toulouse (Andre Roux: Scrolls, 156.)(Paul, Nouveau Larousse Universel.) (Stuart, Royalty for Commoners,Page 234, Line 329-40). AKA: Guillaume de Narbonne. AKA: Guillaume, Dukede Septimanie. Also Known As: Guillaume "Le Grand". Note -: Saint Guillaumefought against the sarrasins. In Gellone (Herault, France), he foundedthe monastery of Sain-Guilhem-du-Desert. He was Count de Toulouseand also Duke of Aquitaine. Born: before 776 in Languedoc, France, son of Theodoric=Thierri,Count de Toulouse and Aldane=Aude Martel, Saint Guillaume is presumed tohave been at least 18 years of age by the time his son Bera was born. Married before 794 in France: Kunigonde N?; Kunigonde was St. Guillaume's first wife. Married before 800: Guiburge deHornbach, daughter of Lambert, Count de Hornbach. Guiburge was SaintGuillaume's second wife. Died: in 812 in Gellone, Herault, France. Source: lorenfamily.com