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Birth:          ABT 1046 Toulouse, France
Death:          1094 in battle at Huesca
Cause of Death: slain

Notes
also Duke of Narbonne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Count_of_Toulouse
William IV of Toulouse (c. 1040 – 1094) was Count of Toulouse, Margrave of 
Provence, and Duke of Narbonne from 1061 to 1094. He succeeded his father Pons 
of Toulouse upon his death in 1061. His mother was Almodis de la Marche, but she 
was kidnapped by and subsequently married to Ramon Berenguer I, Count of 
Barcelona when William was a boy. He was married to Emma of Mortain (daughter of 
Robert, Count of Mortain and a niece of William of Normandy), who gave him one 
daughter, Philippa. He also had an illegitimate son, William-Jordan, with his half-sister 
Adelaide.

He married twice, and produced two legitimate sons; neither, however, survived 
infancy, leaving daughter Philippa as his heiress. As Toulouse had no tradition of 
female inheritance, this raised a question with regard to succession. In 1088, when 
William departed for the Holy Land, he left his brother, Raymond of Saint-Gilles, to 
govern in his stead (and, it was later claimed, to succeed him). Within five years, 
William was dead, and Raymond in a perfect position to take power[1] – although, 
after Philippa married William IX of Aquitaine, they laid claim to Toulouse and fought, 
off and on, for years to try to reclaim it from Raymond and his children.

He was the great-grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, by his daughter's marriage to 
William IX of Aquitaine, and Eleanor's descendants would continue to lay nominal 
claim to Toulouse based on descent from William IV.

Parents
OF TOULOUSE Pons III ( 991 - 1060)
DE LA HAUTE MARCHE Almodis (Almode) (ABT 1025 - 16 Oct 1071)

Siblings
OF TOULOUSE Almodis (ABT 1045 - AFT 1132)
____ William (Guillaume) IV (ABT 1046 - 1094)

Marriage To DE MORTAIGNE Emma (ABT 1058 - AFT 1080)
    m. ABT 1071 

Notes
his second

Parents
DE MORTAIGNE [DE CONTEVILLE] Robert (ABT 1037 - 8 Dec 1090)
DE MONTGOMERY Maude (Matilda) (ABT 1041 - ABT 1085)

Children by DE MORTAIGNE Emma ABT 1058 - AFT 1080
____ Philippa (Mathilde) (Maud) (ABT 1073 - 28 Nov 1118)

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