19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).

At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade ( there is evidence Urban II had conferred with Adhemar before the council ) and having been named apostolic legate and appointed to lead the crusade by Pope Urban II, he accompanied Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, to the east.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

In January 1208 the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, was sent to meet the ruler of the area, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.

Shortly thereafter, Castelnau was murdered as he returned to Rome, allegedly by a knight in the service of Count Raymond.

Two of John ’ s close allies, Emperor Otto and Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, had already suffered the same punishment themselves, and the significance of excommunication had been somewhat devalued.

Miles was assassinated in October, 1174, and Count Raymond III of Tripoli, Amalric's first cousin, became regent.

When he was 15, Louis ' mother brought an end to the Albigensian Crusade in 1229 after signing an agreement with Count Raymond VII of Toulouse that cleared the latter's father of wrongdoing.

* 1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

* 1156 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse ( d. 1222 )

* 1151-The Treaty of Tudilén ( or Treaty of Tudején ) is signed by Alfonso VII of León and Raymond Berengar IV, Count of Barcelona, recognising the Aragonese conquests south of the Júcar and the right to expand in and annex the Kingdom of Murcia.

* November 28 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

* Raymond II, Count of Tripoli ( b. c. 1115 )

* October 27 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse ( d. 1222 )

* Count Raymond III of Tripoli ( b. 1140 )

* August 2 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse ( b. 1156 )

By marriage to Beatrice, heiress of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, he was Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1246.

As his elder three daughters had all married kings and received substantial dowries, Raymond settled his entire inheritance upon Beatrice, making Charles Count of Provence and Forcalquier.

* Raymond IV of Toulouse becomes Count of Toulouse.

* Raymond IV of Toulouse begins to besiege Tripoli, and takes the nominal title of Count of Tripoli.

* September 27 – Count Raymond VII of Toulouse ( b. 1197 )

One of his few successes, in 1159, was his trip to Toulouse to aid Raymond V, Count of Toulouse who had been attacked by Henry II: after he entered into the city with a small escort, claiming to be visiting the Countess his sister, Henry declared that he could not attack the city whilst his liege lord was inside, and went home.

In 1112, the last descendant of Boson, Douce I, Countess of Provence, married the Catalan Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, who as a result became Raymond Berenguer I, Count of Provence.

* 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac ( b. 1360 )

** Alexander Hamilton, Count of Neuburg, the Holy Roman Empire's Envoy Extraordinary to the court of James VII and II, had issue:

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

** Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy ( d. 1391 )

* Baldwin VII becomes Count of Flanders.

* June 12 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France ( b. 1360 )

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

In October 974, under the direction of Count Sicco, the bishop of Sutri was elected Pope as Pope Benedict VII.

* Prince Philippe, Count of Paris ( Philippe VII ) ( 1883 – 1894 )

* Prince Henri, Count of Paris ( Henry VII ) ( 1999 – Present )

* Anna Marie zu Löwenfeld ( 1735 – 1783 ) ∞ Franz Ludwig Count of Holnstein ( 1723 – 1780 ), son of Clemens August's brother Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

In 1074 Pope Gregory VII was trying to persuade William I, Count of Burgundy, to remember this vow and, with Amadeus and others, go to the defence of the Roman Empire in the East against the Seljuk Turks.

Amadeus VII ( 1360, Avigliana, Piedmont – November 1, 1391 ), surnamed the Red Count, was Count of Savoy from 1383 to 1391.

# Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, 1360 – 1391

The marriage was an attempt to finally settle the struggle between the Counts of Anjou and the French Kings over possession of the frontier district of the Norman Vexin, which Louis VII acquired from Henry's grandfather, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, around 1144.

In 1428, Oswald broke his oath and travelled to Heidelberg to meet Kurfürst Ludwig von der Pfalz, Archbishop of Cologne, Count Dietrich II von Moers and Duke Adolf VII von Jülich, with the aim to garner the help of the League of the Holy Court in a dispute with his cousin Hans von Villanders, who owed Oswald 2, 200 ducats.

Louis's son, Charles, new Duke of Orléans, turned to his father-in-law, Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, for support.

In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to Louis VII of France, whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 ( as a widow she remarried to Count Raymond V of Toulouse ).