Raymond-Roger de Foix

Raymond-Roger de Foix (Born in 1152, dead on April 3rd 1223), Count de Foix of 1188 at 1223.

Wire of Roger-Bernard de Foix and Cecile Trencavel, he marries Philippa de Moncade in 1189. From their union were born three children: Esther, Roger-Bernard which will be its to inherit and Cecile.

He accompanied Philippe-Auguste in Holy Land in 1191; announced themselves to the head office of Ascalon and the catch of Saint-Jean-in Acre, and returned with the king when Richard Lion-hearted had taken the command of the army of the Crusaders.

Its first actions aim at increasing its fields on the southern slope of the the Pyrenees, in Catalogne. In 1196, it plundered the top Urgell and the Cerdagne with the assistance of Arnaud de Castelbon in order to seize Andorre. When, a little later, the latter decide to link their heirs, the Count Ermengol VIII of Urgell and the bishop of Urgell (Bernard de Villemur) are opposed to it in enter in war against them. The count de Foix and Arnaud were captured and imprisoned February at September 1203. The king Pierre II of Aragon intervenes to make them release with an aim of sparing them within the framework of his conquest of the Languedoc. This last gave to the count the castles Customs and of Quérigut in stronghold (1209), after having already given various other Catalan seigniories (1208). Very quickly, Raymon-Roger de Foix is suspected of Hérésie but is successful to leave the head high the charges carried against him. It is true that, although Catholique, it was very related to the Catharisme by his/her sister, Esclarmonde de Foix, and his Philippa wife who the house of Dun directed, in the Pyrenees, reserved for the education of the young girls and the retirement of the ministers in charge for teaching cathare.

Of remainder, as of the catch of Carcassonne in 1209 by Simon de Montfort, it will line up side of the Counts de Toulouse and will be opposed to cross during the Albigensian Crusade. It starts by taking again Preixan then it punishes the middle-class men of Pamiers which it makes imprison in its keep of Foix. Two years later, it will be victorious with the Bataille of Montgey. However, the crusaders counteract and besiege with four recoveries its castle. In 1214, Raymond-Roger is subjected and its castle is entrusted in pledge to the papal legate who will give it to Simon de Montfort.

Thereafter, it supports the rebellion carried out by Raymond VII of Toulouse and takes share with the head office of Toulouse in 1217 where Simon de Montfort will find death. This war of reconquest enables him to again return in its castle in 1218.

With its death in 1223, the count had recovered all his fields except for Mirepoix where he died during the seat of the fortified town.

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