Torson (known variously as ''Tercin'', ''Torso'', ''Chorso'', and ''Chorson'') was the first count (or duke) of Toulouse (778 – 789 or 790).Astronomus, Vita Hludowici Imperatoris §3 und 5, hrsg. von Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 2 (1829), S. 608–609 He is called ''Chorso dux Tholosanus'' by the so-called "Astronomer" in his ''

Vita Hludovici ''Vita Hludovici'' or ''Vita Hludovici Imperatoris'' (The Life of Louis or the Life of the Emperor Louis) is an anonymous biography of Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks from AD 814 to 840. Author The work was written ...

'' ("Life of Louis", year 789). Torson was the regent of Aquitaine during the first years of the reign of

Louis the Pious Louis the Pious (; ; ; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only ...

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 The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the modern region of Gascony. The Duchy of Gascony, then known as ''Wasconia'', was originally a Franki ...

, Lupus II. This was the reason for his dismissal upon his release.

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8th-century deaths Chorso 8th-century Frankish nobility Year of birth unknown {{France-noble-stub