F on of Raimond V and of Constance, sister of the king Louis VII, he is born on October 27, 1156 and succeeds his father in 1194. Immediately, he restores peace with Aragon and Trencavel. In Toulouse, he maintains local fundamental liberties, increases the number of fiscal exemptions and spreads widens the right of asylum to all the local territory. Poet and refined, he does not love war but he is very energetic which is proved by his altercation against the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau. The murder of this one provokes the excommunication of Raimond which does not hesitate, in 1209 , to self humiliate in front of the Church to spare time and to place its lands under papal protection. Montfort and the Southern clergy, that guess his game, are going to try in vain to kill him. After the defeat of Muret ( 1213 ), he runs away to wait for h hour. It comes in 1216 when he lands in Marseille, he says, to defend (as he says) the rights of his Son on Provence. He returns in Toulouse in 1217: Montfort engages then a fight to death which finishes with his end (in June 25, 1218) and the victory of the Southerns. " Raimond the Old man " thanks Toulousains by spreading their exemptions, then entrust the county to his son Raimond VII. Saddened by impossible conciliation with the Church, he dies from an apoplectic fit in August, 1222. The Hospitalier Order, of which he is a supporter and with who he lives, keeps the his mortal remain near their cemetery. The skull will be still seen in the XVII ° century.