LUDOVICO OF TOULOUSE (LUDOVICO D'ANGIÒ), saint. — Second son of Charles II, King of Naples, brother of Robert d'Angiò, and great-nephew of St. Louis IX, King of France, he was born at Nocera dei Pagani (or at Brignoles in Provence?) in 1274 and died at Brignoles on 19 August 1297. At the age of fourteen he was sent as a hostage to Barcelona for the liberation of his father, who had been taken prisoner by Peter of Aragon. He remained in Catalonia until 1294. During his captivity, Celestine V appointed him Archbishop of Lyon (7 October 1294), but this had no effect.
During an illness, he vowed to enter the Franciscans, among whom he had also completed his scientific training. As a result, he renounced his rights to the succession of the Kingdom of Naples in favor of his brother Robert. Ordained priest in the summer of 1296, on Christmas night of the same year he fulfilled his vow; he received the Franciscan habit from the Minister General Giovanni de Murro and made his profession in his hands, without completing the novitiate, with the consent of Pope Boniface VIII, who had already proposed the see of Toulouse for him and consecrated him on 30 December following. In February 1297 he left Rome for his see, but first went to Paris where he met Philip IV the Fair. He arrived in Toulouse at the end of April or the beginning of May. During his brief episcopate, his charity shone forth especially. Setting out to visit his sister, Queen Blanche, in Catalonia, on his return he stopped in Provence where his father Charles II was staying, and there, at Brignoles, he died of tuberculosis on 19 August of the same year, at the age of only twenty-three. According to his will, his body was taken to the Franciscan church in Marseille and in 1423 transferred by Alfonso of Aragon to the cathedral of Valencia. The process for his canonization began in 1307 and was concluded by John XXII on 7 April 1317. His feast is celebrated on 19 August. He is said to have written some sermons and a treatise on music.