Garsinde de Gascogne comtesse de Toulouse

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Gersende .
Raymond de Toulouse married Gersende de Gascogne, daughter of García Sánchez and his wife Amuna. "Pontius…comes Tolosanus, primarchio et dux Aquitanorum et uxor mea Garsindis" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Pons de Thomières, for the souls of "genitore nostro Raimundo et genetrice mea", by charter dated Nov 936 [Histoire Générale de Languedoc 3rd Edn. Tome V, Preuves, Chartes et Diplômes, 67, col. 173]. Her parentage is ascertained as follows. The Codex de Roda names "Sanzio Garsias et Arnaldo Garsies ac Gilelmo Garsies, ac domna Andregoto, seu domna Acibella, seu et ---" as the children of "Garsea Sanzoz" and his unnamed wife [Lacarra, J. M. 'Textos navarros del Códice de Roda', Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón Vol. I (Zaragoza, 1945) 28, p. 248]. Another passage in the Codex de Roda records that "Pontio" married "filia Garsie Sanzionis" by whom he was father of "Regimundus" [Lacarra, J. M. 'Textos navarros del Códice de Roda', Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón Vol. I (Zaragoza, 1945) 32, p. 251].

Garsinde married Raimund Pons comté de Toulouse et Albi, Duc d'Aquitaine, son of Raimund Comte de Toulouse et Albi, Marquis of Gothie and Guinhilde de Urgell. (Raimund Pons comté de Toulouse et Albi, Duc d'Aquitaine was born circ 900-910 in Toulouse,¹⁸⁰ died circa 944-969 ¹⁸⁰ and was buried in Saint-Pons-de-Thomières.)