Editing Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (section)

==Death and legacy==
Alphonse's death without heirs raised some questions as to the succession to his lands. One possibility was that they should revert to the crown, another that they should be redistributed to his family. The latter was claimed by Charles of Anjou, but in 1283 [[Parlement]] decided that the County of Toulouse should revert to the crown, if there were no male heirs.{{sfn|Hallam|1980|p=258}} Alphonse's wife [[Joan, Countess of Toulouse|Joan]] (who died four days after Alphonse) had attempted to dispose of her lands in a will to her nearest female relative [[Philippa de Lomagne]]. However, 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. Her will was invalidated by Parlement in 1274.{{sfn|Hallam|1980|p=258}} One specific bequest in Alphonse's will, giving his wife's lands in the [[Comtat Venaissin]] to the [[Holy See]], was allowed, and it became a [[Papal States|papal territory]], a status which it retained until 1791.{{sfn|Kolla|2013|p=718}}