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COUNT OF See also:TOULOUSE AND OF See also:POITIERS See also:ALPHONSE (I220-1271)  , the son of See also:Louis VIII., See also:king of See also:France, and See also:brother of St Louis, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:November 1220 . He joined the See also:county of See also:Toulouse to his See also:appanage of See also:Poitou and See also:Auvergne, on the See also:death, in See also:September 1249, of See also:Raymond VII., whose daughter Jeanne he had married in 1237 . He took the See also:cross with his brother, St Louis, in 1248 and in 1270 . In 1252, on the death of his See also:mother, See also:Blanche of See also:Castile, he was See also:joint See also:regent with See also:Charles of See also:Anjou until the return of Louis IX., and took a See also:great See also:part in the negotiations which led to the See also:treaties of See also:Abbeville and of See also:Paris (1258-1259) . His See also:main See also:work was on his own estates . There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian See also:war and made a first See also:attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for See also:union with the See also:crown . The See also:charter known as " Alphonsine," granted to the See also:town of See also:Riom, became the See also:code of public See also:law for Auvergne . Honest and moderate, protecting the See also:middle classes against exactions of the nobles, he exercised a happy See also:influence upon the See also:south, in spite of his naturally despotic See also:character and his continual and pressing need of See also:money . He died without heirs on his return from the 8th crusade, in See also:Italy, probably at See also:Savona, on the 21st of See also:August 1271 . See B . Ledain, Ilistoire d'See also:Alphonse, fare de S . Louis et du See also:coolie de Poitou sous son See also:administration (1241—1271) (Poitou, 1869); E .

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Saint Louis et Alphonse de See also:Poitiers (Paris, 1870) ; A . See also:Molinier, Etude sur l'administration de S . Louis et d'Alphonse de Poitiers (Toulouse, 188o) ; and also his edition of the Correspondance administrative d'Alphonse de Poitiers in the Collection de documents inedits pour servir d l'Itistoire de France (Paris, 1894 and 1895) .

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