Trencavel

The Trencavel ( okzitan: trenca Avelana = " Nutcracker"; Provencal: trencar vel = " cutting through " ) were an important noble family of Languedoc in the southwest of present-day France. During the 10th to the 13th century they came to considerable power in the region by making came into the possession of the Vice- counties of Albi, Agde, Nimes, Carcassonne, Béziers and Razès. Bernard Aton IV was the first of the family who has been designated by the name Trencavel.

They stood in rivalry to the Count of Toulouse and recognized the suzerainty of the counts of Barcelona and the Kings of Aragon, which guaranteed them a virtually autonomous position. In the 12th century were the territories of the Trencavel centers of the Cathars and were thus a target of the Albigensian Crusade in 1209, in which the family lost all their possessions. 1240 tried unsuccessfully to regain Carcassonne Raimund II Trencavel.

FASCE de gueules et d' hermine. ( The coat of arms of the Trencavel after 1247 ).

FASCE d'or et d' hermine. ( The wrong coat of arms ).

Master List of Trencavel

Aton I ( Viscount of Albi)

County of Carcassonne List of heads of state of Spain Bernard Ato IV Roger I. Trencavel Raymond I Trencavel Roger-Bernard I, Count of Foix Roger II. Trencavel Raymond II Trencavel Bernard Ato V Bernard Ato VI Gausfred III of Roussillon Bishop
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