MARRIED TITLE: Queen of FRANCE
MARRIED: 1003 in FRANCE
BURIAL: Abbaye de St. Denis, Isle de France, FRANCE
NOTE:
As the Gallic city of Tolosa, the community was important long before the Roman conquest of Gaul in the 1st century B C. It became an episcopal see in the 4th century (raised to an archiepiscopal see in the early 14th century) and was the capital of the Visigoths (see Goths) from 419 to 508, when it was captured by Clovis I, king of the Franks. It served as the seat of the Carolingian kingdom of Aquitaine from 781 to 843, when the separate county of Toulouse was established. The counts subsequently gained control of most of the vast Languedoc region, and their court was noted for attracting major literary figures, including leading troubadours (poet-musicians). In the early 13th century the city was plundered during the crusade against the Albigenses (members of a religious sect considered heretical by the Roman Catholic church). In 1271 Toulouse passed to the French crown, but it retained considerable autonomy until the French Revolution (1789-1799).
SOURCE:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Seventh Edition, Copyright 1995, Pp. 57, 123