Raimond II Trencavel

Raimond II Trencavel (towards 1204 - † towards 1267), is a member of the Maison Trencavel. He will seek, of the years lasting to take again the possessions of his father whose Albigensian Crusade had despoiled it. He was opposed on several occasions to Amaury de Montfort, then established on the old Trencavel fields.

Youth

Raimond in low age, when the crusaders make the seat of the town of Carcassonne, then is still held by his/her father Raimond-Roger Trencavel in 1209. With the catch of the city, Simon de Montfort, then military chief of the crusade, will make imprison Raimond-Roger in his own dungeons. With died of this last the November 10th 1209, Simon de Montfort, who aspired to the Trencavel territories, makes sign in Agnès of Montpellier, the wife of the late one, a renunciation on its rights like those of his/her son. N the other hand, it accepted a life annuity of three thousand pennies and refunding over one year, carried out in four payments, of its dowry assembling itself to twenty-five thousand pennies. Raimond is then entrusted to the supervision of the count Raymond-Roger de Foix.

First reconquest

Raimond took an active share with the reconquest occitane carried out by Raymond VII of Toulouse. Indeed, starting from 1216, the country is raised vis-a-vis the yoke imposed by Simon de Montfort. Besides this last will be made kill while trying to subject the town of Toulouse by the means of a seat in rule, 1218. Its successor, his son Amaury will be unable to face this general revolt and will restore little by little the grounds conquered at the time of the Albigensian Crusade. In 1224, Carcassonne is taken again and Raymond VII offers the city to his legitimate owner: Raimond.

It will preserve it until in 1226, year when Louis VIII will come to subject the city again. This dispossession will be enterrinée by the treated of Meaux-Paris in 1229 which will make city a royal seneschalsy. Raimond had to be exiled with the course the king of Aragon.

Second reconquest

In 1240, Raimond, which still had many contacts in the country, decides to take again its due: the city of Carcassonne, with the assistance of Olivier de Termes. The September 17th, it benefits from the complicity of the local nobility and the inhabitants of the suburbs of the city to besiege the city. The engagements will last 25 days and will be without mercy. Whereas the city was going to fall to the hands from the faydits which accompany Raimond, the royal army is able to help the city. The October 11th, Raimond must raise the seat urgently. It goes to Montreal where it will be continued and besieged in its turn. It succeeds in escaping and set out again in exile in Aragon.

Tender and catch of the cross

In 1246, Raimond will be constrained to give up its rights. The following year, it will break its seal of Viscount of Béziers and Carcassonne in pledge of tender to king de France who east then Louis IX. He formed later part of the Seventh crusade. The last known act relating to it date of 1263.

It is supposed that he died before 1267, date on which his/her Roger son appears under the title of Roger de Béziers, wire of Trencavel, said Viscount of Béziers.

See too

Internal bonds

Viscount of Carcassonne

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