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Torson (known variously as Tercin Torso Chorso and Chorson) was the first count (or duke) of Toulouse (778 – 789 or 790).He is called Chorso dux Tholosanus by the so-called Astronomer in his Vita Hludovici (Life of Louis year 789). Torson was the regent of Aquitaine during the first years of the reign of Louis the Pious there (from 781). In 788 he was captured by the Gascon Adalric and made to swear an oath of allegiance to the Duke of Gascony Lupus II.

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