ABSTRACT
The brothers William Raymond and Aycard reported that they were attacked at Fontanas by a force under Gilbert de Maubuisson, a lieutenant of Simon de Montfort. When Simon took over the government of Toulouse in 1216, the brothers resisted and were therefore condemned as 'faiditi' or rebels. During or after one of the sieges of Toulouse in the period 1217–19, Raymond and Aycard returned home and occupied the farm of Fontanas, but there learned that their cousin had alienated his half to the canons-regular. During the Albigensian war, the active scions of the family were temporarily unable to support their cousin, the son of Arnold Raymond. In 1295, the monastery and an attorney representing the tutors of Bernard de Baregiis, son and heir of the deceased Raymond William of the same name, asserted against a royal proctor in the vicar's court in Toulouse that they held the full and complete lordly right in the farm and territories of Fontanas.
