Raymond VI (; October 27, 1156 – August 2, 1222) was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil (as Raymond IV) from 1173 to 1190. Early life Raymond was born at Saint-Gilles, Gard, the son of Raymond V and Constance of France. His maternal grandparents were Louis VI of France and his second wife Adélaide de Maurienne. His maternal uncles included Louis VII of France. In 1194 he succeeded his father as count of Toulouse. He immediately re-established peace with both Alfonso II of Aragon and with the Trencavel family. Marriages He was married six times: On December 11, 1172, to Ermessende of Pelet, Countess of Melgueil. She died in 1176 without issue. In 1178 to Beatrice of Béziers, sister of Roger II Trencavel. She left Raymond and retired to a nunnery. Raymond and Beatrice had one daughter. Constance of Toulouse, who was married first to King Sancho VII of Navarre, and secondly to Pierre-Bermond II of Sauve, lord of Anduze. In 1193 to Bourgogne de Lusignan, daughter of Amaury II, King of Cyprus. She was repudiated in 1196. In October 1196 at Rouen to Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Their marriage included Richard I's renouncement of his claim to Toulouse, ending the feud with the ducal house of Aquitaine. She died on September 4, 1199, in childbirth as a veiled nun at Fontevraud Abbey. Joan and Raymond VI had two children. Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197–1249); and Joan of Toulouse (1198–1255), second wife of Bernard II de la Tour, Lord of la Tour. In 1200 to the daughter of Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus. They divorced in late 1202, as she had remarried to Thierry of Flanders by early 1203. In January 1204 to Eleanor of Aragon, daughter of King Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile. Problems with the Church Raymond VI was arguably the first target of the Albigensian crusade. Raymond VI held vast territories but his control of them was problematic. Aside from theoretically owing allegiance to the King of France, Raymond held Provence as a vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry II of England controlled neighboring Aquitaine through his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, who had a claim to Toulouse through her grandmother, Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV, Count of Toulouse. Alfonso II of Aragon