William of Gellone

The good and true William of Gellone , also in French: Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez, was the Count of Toulouse who, as an exemplar Christian knight, defended medieval France from invading Muslim forces during the turn of the eighth to ninth centuries. Near the end of his life he founded a monastery at Gellone to which he retired as monk . His feast day is May 28 .