William Count Of Toulouse

• Preferred Name: William Count Of Toulouse
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 745 in Toulouse, France at LATI: N3.6008 LONG: E0.3628
  
• Monk+(0806): with note: Description: Became Monk of Gellone in year 0806 https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15633a.htm
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Saint
  
• Death: 28 MAY 812 in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France at LATI: N3.731 LONG: E0.3233 with note: Died at monastery of Gellone near Lodève in southern France
  
• FSID: 9WVJ-7TT
  
• Canonized+1066: 1066 with note: Description: He was canonized a saint in 1066 by Pope Alexander II.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The good and true William of Gellone, also in French: Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez, was the Count of Toulouse who, as an exemplar Christian knight, defended medieval France from invading Muslim forces during the turn of the eighth to ninth centuries.
  
  William was born in 755 into the ruling families of France. His father was Thierry IV, the Count of Autun and Toulouse. His mother, Aldana, was the daughter of Charles Martel, thus, making him a cousin of Charlemagne. William spent much of his youth at the court of Charlemagne.
  
  In 790, William was made Count of Toulouse, a title he held until 811, and was charged with the care of Louis the Pious, the son of Charlemagne. In 793, William led the defense against, and defeat of, Hisham I at Orange who was conducting a holy war against the Christians of Asturias and Languedoc. Later, Count William met the Muslim forces again at Villedaigne where he stopped their advance but could not force the Muslims from Narbonne.
  
  In 803, William established the monastery of Gellone near Lodève in southern France. Count William placed his monastery under the direction of Benedict of Aniane, a Benedictine monk and monastic reformer. In 806, he became a monk (lay brother) and retired to his monastery of Gellone. There he remained until his death on May 28, 812. He was glorified in 1066. After his death the monastery was named after him: Saint-Guilhem-du-Desert.

1. Cunégonde de Laon, b. 797 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France     d. 15 OCT 865 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
2. Gérard d'Auvergne, b. ABT 795 in Poitiers, Aquitaine, France     d. 25 JUN 841 in Fontenoy, Yonne, France