• Born: Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France
• Married: Before 10 Nov 952
• Died: Shortly after 29 Mar 990

  Research Notes:

"Aduvira" sold property "in comitatu Narbonense villam…Creixano" to "Matfredo vicecomite et uxori tuæ Adalaicis vicecomitissa" by charter dated 10 Nov 952. The question of the parentage of the wife of Matfred Vicomte de Narbonne is difficult. The two documents quoted below, in which she and her two sons are named by Gersende Ctss de Toulouse, suggest that she may have been the countess´s daughter, Adelais, daughter of Raymond Pons Comte de Toulouse & his wife Gersende de Gascogne, or at least closely related to her. This suggestion would explain the transmission of the name Raymond into the family of the vicomtes de Narbonne. However, two factors point away from this hypothesis. Firstly, Adelais´s three sisters, named in her own first testament dated 13 Jun 977, are not named in the [972] testament of their supposed mother Gersende. Secondly, Adelais´s second testament, dated 29 Mar 990, states that her donations were made for the souls of "genitoris atque genetricis meæ et…Matfredi viri mei…sive filiis meis, sive sororibus et parentibus meis", omitting to mention any brothers of which, if she was the daughter of Raymond Pons Comte de Toulouse, she would have had at least one. Szabolcs de Vajay suggests that she was the daughter of Arnaud [I] Comte de Comminges, basing the hypothesis on onomastics and favorable chronology, but his hypothesis does not satisfactorily explain why Adelais and her two sons were named in the testament of Ctss Gersende. "Matfredus vicecomes et uxor mea Adalaiz" sold property to Aimery Archbishop of Narbonne by charter dated 22 Apr 959, signed by "…Soniefredus comes…". A charter dated 13 May 962 refers to the testament of "condam Richildis vicecomitissa…de civitate Narbona" which appoints "suos elemosiniarios Gersindis comitissa, Matfredo et Adalaiz". The testament of "Matfredus comes et uxor sua Adalaiz", dated 20 Aug 966, bequeathed property to "Ermengaudo filio nostro et fratri suo Raymundo…Trudgardæ filiæ nostræ". A charter dated 969, which records an agreement between Aimery Archbishop of Narbonne and the monastery of Saint-Pons de Thomières, refers to the advice of "Gersindæ comitissæ et Adalais vicecomitissæ" and "quondam Poncius comes". "Domina Garcendis comitissa quæ fui uxor domni Pontii comitis" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Pons de Thomières, for the soul of "dicti mariti mei Pontii comitis", by charter dated Jul [972], which reserves property which "Adalaydis et filius eius Ermengaudus et Raymundus" held in "castrum de Cenceno" for their lives. The testament of "Gersindæ comitissæ", dated to [972], bequeathed property for life "alodem meum…Cencinnonem" to "Adalais vicecomitissæ et filiis eius Ermengaudo et Regimundo". "Adelaizis vicecomitissa Narbonæ filiique mei consentientes, Ermengaudus...archipræsul suus successor, et Raimundus vicecomes...et alii eleemosynarii Udalgerius princeps frater suus et Ermengaudus qui vocatur Vasladellus, et Bernardus Grammaticus nepos archipæsulis defuncti...et Geiro honorabilis princeps nepos præfati defuncti...", in accordance with the testament of “beatæ memoriæ quondam Aimerici...Narbonensis ecclesiæ archipresulis”, donated “alodem suum...Crexanum”, for the souls of “Poncioni comitis defuncti, sive Matfredi vicecomitis, sive Odoni vicecomitis, vel Richildis vicecomitissæ”, by charter dated 13 Jun 977. The testament of "Adelais", dated 4 Oct 978, named "Ermengaudus archipresul et Raymundus et Vassadellus…" as her executors, made the following bequests: donated her foundation "Narbonam…sanctique Salvatoris" to "sororibus meis et domnæ Arsindæ comitissæ", bequeathed "mea hereditas de Vidiliano" to "Arsindi sorori meæ", "alodes de Tolomiano" to "Ermesindi", and "mea hereditas de Artimiciano" to "Garsindi"; "alodum…inter Biaurum et Syronem" to "Ermengaudo filio meo"; "villa Columbaria cum…ecclesia Sancti Petri" to "Raymundo filio meo"; requested "filia mea" to become abbess at Narbonne. A second testament of "Adalaidis vicecomitissa", dated 29 Mar 990, appointed "Ermengaudo archiepiscopo filio meo et Raymundo vicecomiti fratri eius…" as her executors, donated property bought from "sorore mea…Garsindis", bequeathed property to "nurum meam Ricardem" and after her death to "Ermengaudum nepotem meum, filium suum", and to "Raymundum vicecomitem filium meum", adding that the donations were made for the souls of "genitoris atque genetricis meæ et…Matfredi viri mei…sive filiis meis, sive sororibus et parentibus meis". ¹