County of Toulouse

County of Toulouse
Comitatus Tolosanus  (Latin) Comtat de Tolosa  (Occitan) Comté de Toulouse  (French)
849–1271
Coat of arms of the counts of Toulouse in the 13th century
County of Tolosa ca. 1160 Dark Green: Comtal lands Green: Vassal lands Yellow: Limits of Trencavel demesne
Capital		Tolosa
Languages		Medieval Latin Old Occitan
Religion		Roman Catholicism (official) Catharism
Government		Feudal monarchy
Count of Toulouse
•	778–790	Corso
•	1247–1271	Anfós de Peitieus
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Established by Charlemagne	778
•	Acquired by the French Kingdom	1271
Currency		Tolosan Dener Melgorés Sol
Preceded by Succeeded by Visigothic Kingdom Kingdom of France Comtat Venaissin County of Ribagorza
Today part of		France

Coat of arms of the counts of Toulouse in the 13th century

Dark Green: Comtal lands
Green: Vassal lands

The County of Toulouse was a territory in southern France consisting of the city of Toulouse and its environs, ruled by the Count of Toulouse from the late 9th century until the late 13th century.

The territory is the center of a region known as Occitania.

Under the Carolingians, counts and dukes were appointed by the royal court. Later, this office became hereditary. The Counts of Toulouse ruled the city of Toulouse and its surrounding county from the late 9th century until 1271. At times, the Counts of Toulouse or family members were also Counts of Quercy, Rouergue, Albi, and Nîmes, and Marquess of Gothia and Provence.

The Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis fell to the Visigothic Kingdom in the 5th century. Septimania, the Visigothic province roughly corresponding to the later county of Toulouse, fell briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the 750s before it was conquered into the Kingdom of the Franks by Pippin the Short in 759 following the Siege of Narbonne. Septimania within the Frankish realm would become known as Gothia or Marca Gothica by the end of the 9th century.