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During this period considerable urban unrest emerged as the growing cities tried to assert their independence. Raymond I was killed during one such revolt in BĂ©ziers. There was also revolts in
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in the early 10th century. He was followed by five generations of viscounts of Albi in direct father-to-son descent. During this same period the family came to dominate the episcopacy of
Languedoc. Each of the viscounts from Ato II on had a younger brother named Frotarius (or Frothaire) who was a
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both had large territories to the east and west, and valued a potential alliance with a family that stood in the middle. For the most part, the
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was viscount of Albi, Béziers, Carcassonne, Nîmes, and Razès. He thus held all the lands of the counts of
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396:Raymond II
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118:for 4,000
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18:Trencavels
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363:Roger II
286:Aton III
233:Viscount
220:Cesseras
209:Louis IX
185:Roger II
169:Toulouse
136:Division
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