Editing Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (section)

==Spouses and progeny==
Raymond IV of Toulouse was married three times, and twice excommunicated for marrying within forbidden degrees of [[consanguinity]]
by Pope Gregory VII in 1076 and in 1078. These excommunications were lifted in 1080, on the death of his first wife.<ref>Jean-Luc Déjean, The Counts of Toulouse (1050–1250), Fayard, 1979 (reprinted 1988) {{ISBN|2-213-02188-0}}, pp. 31–32.</ref>
 
His first wife was the daughter of [[Geoffrey I of Provence|Godfrey I, Count of Arles]]. Married in 1066, she was repudiated in 1076. Their son was [[Bertrand of Toulouse|Bertrand]].{{sfn|William of Puylaurens|2003|p=17}} 
 
His second wife was Matilda (Mafalda), the daughter of Count [[Roger I of Sicily]].{{sfn|Jansen|Drell|Andrews|2009|p=428}} Married in 1080, Mafalda died in 1094.

Raymond's third wife was [[Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse|Elvira]],{{sfn|Oviedo|2000|p=88 note91}} the illegitimate daughter of King [[Alfonso VI of León]]. They married in 1094. Together they had [[Alfonso Jordan]].{{sfn|Graham-Leigh|2005|loc=table 5}}

Following Raymond's death, his nephew [[William-Jordan]] in 1109, with the aid of King [[Baldwin I of Jerusalem]], finally captured Tripoli and established the [[County of Tripoli]]. William was deposed in the same year by Raymond's eldest son Bertrand, and the county remained in the possession of the counts of Toulouse throughout the 12th century.

Raymond of Toulouse seems to have been driven both by religious and material motives. On the one hand he accepted the discovery of the Holy Lance and rejected the kingship of Jerusalem, but on the other hand he could not resist the temptation of a new territory. [[Raymond of Aguilers]], a clerk in Raymond's army, wrote an account of the crusade from Raymond's point of view.