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Raymond VII of Saint-Gilles (July, 1197 - September 27, 1249) was count of Toulouse, duke of Narbonne and marquis of Provence.
He was the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Joan Plantagenet. During the Albigensian Crusade in May of 1216, he left from Marseilles and besieged Beaucaire, which he captured on August 24. He fought to reconquer Toulouse from Simon de Montfort and later Simon's son Amaury.
He succeeded his father in 1222. In 1225, the council of Bourges excommunicated him and launched a crusade against him. Defeated, he was forced to sign the Treaty of Paris in 1229, by which he ceded the former viscounty of Trencavel to the king of France. Joan, his daughter and heir by his wife Margaret le Brun, was forced to marry Alphonse of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX of France. When Raymond died, Alphonse became count of Toulouse, and after Alphonse's death the county was annexed by France.
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