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The war was largely a discontinuous series of skirmishes and, in January 1229, Raymond, defeated, was forced to sign the Treaty of Paris (also known as the "Treaty of Meaux"). Roger-Bernard tried to keep the peace, but the king rejected his embassy and the counts of Foix and Toulouse took up arms again. However, in 1225, the council of Bourges excommunicated him and launched a crusade against him, the king of France, Louis VIII, called the Lion, wanting to renew the conflict in order to enforce his royal rights in Languedoc. On 14 September 1224, the Albigensian Crusaders surrendered and the war came to an end, each southern lord making peace with the church. At the moment of his accession, he and the new count of Foix, Roger Bernard II the Great, besieged Carcassonne. He fought to reconquer the county of Toulouse from Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and later Simon's son Amaury VI of Montfort. He then tried to get support of Blanche, mother of King Louis IX of France, to marry Beatrice of Provence, who had just become Countess of Provence, but Beatrice married Blanche's son Charles instead.ĭuring the Albigensian Crusade in May 1216, Raymond set out from Marseille and besieged Beaucaire, which he captured on 24 August. They had no children and the Council of Lyons in 1245 granted Raymond a divorce.
In 1243 Raymond married Margaret of Lusignan, the daughter of Hugh X of Lusignan and Isabella of Angoulême. He was engaged to Sanchia of Provence, but she married Richard of Cornwall instead. They had one daughter, Joan, and were divorced in 1241. In March 1211, Raymond VII married Sancha of Aragon. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Henry II of England and a nephew of kings Richard I and John of England. Raymond was born at the Château de Beaucaire, the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Joan of England.