Count William of Toulouse 
William was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. William's father was Judiarch Makir Theodoric Aymeri de Toulouse I of Narbonne and his mother is Aude of Austrasia. His maternal grandparents were King Charles ("the Hammer") Martel of France and Chrotrud Treves. He had a brother named Bellon. He died on May 28th, 0812 in Gellone, France.General Notes
Saint
Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Bagdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book, "A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900" (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by all historians. Regardless, William was a very impressive individual about whom the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the "Saint William cycle" of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death. According to Pierre Bétourné d`Haucourt in"Héraldique et Génealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse,later monk at Gellone, canonised as St. William of the Desert (St.Guilhem du Désert), * ca. 752, +812. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to New York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metroploitan Museum of Art earlier the 20th century. Additionally, David H. Kelley identifies him as the exilarch Natronai, both are questionable, especially in view of the Roman destruction of Jersalem and it's genealogical records in 70 CE. Although it should be noted that Charlemagne did bring back a Jewish official to Germany and this is supposed to be the father of Guillaume.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0730 in Babylon, Iraq d.0804 in France
- b.ABT 0745/0752 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.28 May 0812 in Gellone, France
- b.13 Aug 0582 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.16 Aug 0640/0641 in Metz, Austrasia, France
- b.0602/0607 in Austrasia, France d.0685 in Andene Monastery, France
- b.~ 0586 in Old Saxony, Germany d.> 0615
- b.~ 0635 in Heristal, Austraisa, France d.16 Dec 0714 in Junille, Meuse, France
- b.0564 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0639
- b.~ 0613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0698 in Ardenne
- b.~ 0591 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0652
- b.0676/0689 in Heristal, Belgium d.22 Oct 0741 in Ciersy, France
- b.~ 0610 in Heristal, Liege, France
- b.~ 0654 in Heristal, Austrasia d.0705 in Orp-le-Grand, Brabant
- b.0590
- b.0620
- b.~ 0732 in France
- b.ABT 0600/0615 in Austrasia, France d.< 0686
- b.0650 in Austrasia, France d.0677
- b.ABT 0600/0615
- b.ABT 0661/0665 in Austrasia, France d.0713/0722
- b.~ 0615 in Austrasia, France d.0690 in Austrasia, France
- b.0650 in Treves
- b.~ 0690 in Moselle, Austrasia, France d.0724
- b.0599 in Neustria d.0650
- b.0629 d.0678
- b.ABT 0661/0670 in Austrasia, France
- b.0650 in Austrasia, France d.0677
- b.0630 in Neustria d.0678
- b.0650 in Treves
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Children
Kunigunda de Gellone
Kunigunda was born about 0797 in France. She died after June 12th, 0835 in Italy.
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