Arnaud de Lévezou

Who was Arnaud de Lévezou?

Arnaud de Lévézou, son of Aicfred of Lévézou and of Arsinde de Millau, was the scion of a powerful family who had fortified Lévézou in the preceding century.

Arnaud was prior of the abbey of Cassan, bishop of Béziers and Archbishop of Narbonne and a papal legate. His cousin Richard de Millau preceded him as Archbishop of Narbonne. During the minority of the viscountess Ermengarde of Narbonne from 1134, Arnaud encouraged the regency of Alphonse I of Toulouse, who invaded Narbonne in 1139 with the support of the Archbishop, whom he made governor of Narbonne.