Count St. William, of Toulouse Gellone of 
Count St. William, of Toulouse Gellone was born in Toulouse, France.1 Count St. William, of Toulouse Gellone's father was Count Makhir, of Autun Aymeri Theodoric and his mother was of the Franks Aude Princess. His paternal grandfather is Haninai ben Natronai; his maternal grandparents were King, the Hammer, of the Franks Martel Charles and of Alemania Rotrude Duchess. He had a sister named of Autun (Aube). He died in Gellone, France.1 General Notes
Septemania=Narbonne
Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Bagdad, a
nd secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory ofrives from Arth
ur Zuckerman's book _A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900_ (New Yo
rk, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by historians. Regardles
s, William was an impressive figure about whose career the largest bo
dy of heroic poetry in medieval France, the 'Saint William cycle' of chans
ons of geste, ofveloped in the centuries following his death.Accordi
ng to Pierre Bétourné d`Haucourt in "Héraldique and Génealogie, 1981, p.36
3: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonised as S
t. William of the ofsert (St. Guilhem du Désert), * ca. 752, +812. The rem
ains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Sain
t-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to New York and re-built in the Cloi
sters complex of the Metroploitan Museum of Art earlier this century;.
In the 75th-anniversary issue of TAG (July/October 1997, Vol. 72, nos. 3-4
), Nat Taylor published a superb article showing that the claimed David
ic ofscent of Saint William of Toulouse was, at best, wishful thinking a
nd a strained interpretation of the evidence. -- David Greene
Septemania=Narbonne
Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Bagdad, a
nd secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory ofrives from Arth
ur Zuckerman's book _A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900_ (New Yo
rk, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by historians. Regardles
s, William was an impressive figure about whose career the largest bo
dy of heroic poetry in medieval France, the 'Saint William cycle' of chans
ons of geste, ofveloped in the centuries following his death.Accordi
ng to Pierre Bétourné d`Haucourt in "Héraldique and Génealogie, 1981, p.36
3: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonised as S
t. William of the ofsert (St. Guilhem du Désert), * ca. 752, +812. The rem
ains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Sain
t-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to New York and re-built in the Cloi
sters complex of the Metroploitan Museum of Art earlier this century;.
In the 75th-anniversary issue of TAG (July/October 1997, Vol. 72, nos. 3-4
), Nat Taylor published a superb article showing that the claimed David
ic ofscent of Saint William of Toulouse was, at best, wishful thinking a
nd a strained interpretation of the evidence. -- David Greene
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0670
- b.Bet 700 and 730 d.~ 0793
- b.Wft Est 716-755 in Toulouse, France d.Wft Est 757-836 in Gellone, France
- b.Bet 602 and 607 in Austrasia, France d.Bet 678 and 698 in Andene Monastery
- b.~ 0635 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.16 Dec 714 in Junille-on-the-Meuse, Leige, Belgium
- b.~ 0613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.Bet 689 and 694 in Andenne, France
- b.Wft Est 666-693 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.Bet 15 Oct and 22 Nov 741 in Quierzy-on-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.Bet 645 and 654 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.Wft Est 679-748 in Orp-le-Grand, Brabant, Vosges, Belgium
- b.Bet 717 and 732 d.< 0805
- b.Wft Est 673-696 in Moselle, Austrasia, France d.0724
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Count St. William, of Toulouse Gellone were married in a religious ceremony.2
Count St. William, of Toulouse Gellone were married in a religious ceremony.2
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