Count William of Toulouse 
William was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. William's father was Count Makhir Theodoric Aymeri of Autun & Judiciar and his mother is Princess Auda Martel. His paternal grandparents are Haninai ben Natronai and Rolinde d'Aquitaine; his maternal grandparents were King Charles ("the Hammer") Martel of France and Chrotrud Treves. He had a brother and a sister, named Thierry and Bertha Aube. He died on May 28th, 0812 in Gellone, France.General Notes
Saint William "of the Desert"
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.
Randy Jones <randyj2222@yahoo.com> identifies his father as Thierry or Theuderic d'Autun and his mother as Alda de Francia. There is no supporting evidence for this, so I am going with the limited data as above and that of the Endfield-Bryant Genealogy. JCT 12/23/2000
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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.0610 d.0689
- b.0630
- b.0640 in Pembebitha, Babylonia
- b.~ 0715 in Babylon, Iraq
- b.~ 0590 in Iraq d.~ 0670
- b.~ 0655 in Spain d.~ 0690
- b.0635 in Persia
- b.0700/0730 in Babylon, Iraq d.0793
- b.0620
- b.0640 in Bavaria, Germany d.0698 in Senechal, Bavaria, Germany
- b.~ 0670
- b.~ 0620 in Liege, Belgium d.< 0720
- b.~ 0649 in France d.0718
- b.0631 in France
- b.~ 0700
- b.ABT 0625/0634 in France d.0656/0657
- b.~ 0651 d.0691
- b.~ 0635 in Chelles, Neustria, Belguim d.30 Jan 0679/0680
- b.~ 0675
- b.0602/0607 in Austrasia, France d.0685 in Andene Monastery, France
- b.~ 0613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0698 in Ardenne
- b.0750/0752 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, 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.0717/0732 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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They had a son and a daughter, named Bernard and Hellinburche.
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Children
Marquis Bernard de Toulouse I of Septimania
Bernard was born in Autun, Saone-et-Loire ,Bourgogne, France. He died in 0844 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. He was buried in St. Sernin, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France.
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