Lautrec

Who he is

Name

Not pinned for 1 January 1200 (in the crusade years the brothers Bertrand I and Sicard VI rule as co-viscounts)

Title

Co-viscounts of Lautrec

Since

Not pinned

Family

A house of co-viscounts descended from Viscount Frotard.

Confidence

low

French Wikipedia (Vicomte de Lautrec): two co-viscounts, Bertrand I and Sicard VI, in the crusade period; Bertrand fought for the southerners, Sicard backed the crusaders before changing sides; the viscounty was confiscated by Louis VIII in 1226 and returned 1227-1235.

Overlord

Not pinned between the Trencavel (viscounts of Albi) and the count of Toulouse; placed in the trencavel realm because Lautrec lies inside the Trencavel's Albigeois and Castrais.

What it holds

• Lautrec and its castellany
• Lands about Graulhet, Ambres, Fiac and Montfa (later lists)

How things stand that morning

Held by the house of Lautrec; names and overlord not pinned.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later lists of lands; the 1200 rulers are not named in the sources read.

On the map: Built from later lists of the viscounty's lands.

Primary sources for Trencavel

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona, Anonymous (monks of Santa Maria de Ripoll) (first version 1162 to 1184; continued in the later 13th century; final version 1303 to 1314). The house chronicle of the counts of Barcelona.
• The Great Book of Fiefs, Various; compiled by Ramon de Caldes for Alfonso II of Aragon (compiled 1192 to 1194). The register of the count-king's feudal rights, finished a few years before 1200 and in use at Peter II's court: some 900 charters of homage, convention, oath, sale and marriage arranged by county and lineage, covering Catalonia, Roussillon, Cerdanya, Pallars, Urgell, the Carcassonne and Beziers lands of the Trencavels, Provence and Aragon.