Duchy of Gascony information

The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia (Basque: Baskoniako Dukerria; Occitan: Ducat de Gasconha; French: Duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day...

succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453). From the 17th century until the French Revolution (1789–1799), it was part of the combined Province of Guyenne and...

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of what is now southwestern France (Gascony) and central France. It originated in the 7th century as a duchy of Francia, ultimately a recreation of the...

foothills of the Pyrenées, was a historic county of the Duchy of Gascony, established in 601 in Aquitaine (now France). In 960, the title of 'Count of Armagnac'...

France (a Scottish ally) after King Philip IV confiscated the Duchy of Gascony. The duchy was eventually recovered but the conflict relieved English military...

dominance of northern Aquitaine and the ducal title to the whole with the House of Auvergne. In 1032, they inherited the Duchy of Gascony, thus uniting...

Empire (the Duchy of Gascony, the Duchy of Aquitaine, and Septimania). In its broader meaning, Spanish March sometimes refers to a group of early Iberian...

The Battle of Castillon between the forces of England and France took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later...

formed, along with Gascony, the duchy of Aquitaine, which passed under the dominion of the kings of England by the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry...

alliance with the Kingdom of England in 1254, his claim on the Duchy of Gascony as well Alfonso was a prolific sponsor of Galician poetry, such as the...

French Crown over the Duchy of Gascony led to the War of Saint-Sardos in 1324. Charles, Edward's brother-in-law, had become King of France in 1322, and...

a military campaign against the Duchy of Aquitaine and the Duchy of Gascony. He leads a Frankish army to the city of Bordeaux, where he sets up a fort...

possessions of their holders, or to political reorganizations. For example, the Duchy of Gascony disappeared in the 11th century, and the Duchy of Normandy...

Theudebert and Theuderic campaigned successfully in Gascony, where they had established the Duchy of Gascony and brought the Basques to submission (602). This...

suppression of the Duchy of Vasconia as well as the Duchy of Aquitaine by the Carolingians would lead to a rebellion, led by Lupo II of Gascony. Pepin the Short...

western mountains of Soule). The lands of the Lower Navarre were part of the Duchy of Vasconia that turned into Gascony by the end of the first millennium...

1143. Roger II of Sicily, 1127–1130, deposed when his duchy became a part of his new Kingdom of Sicily. Waiofar, deposed 760. Ebalus, Duke of Aquitaine, deposed...

military campaigns left him in heavy debt and when Philip IV of France confiscated the Duchy of Gascony in 1294, Edward needed funds to wage war in France. When...

nephew of the deceased count, bringing it fully within his sphere of influence. Sancho established relations with the Duchy of Gascony, probably of a suzerain–vassal...

the streets of Bermeo in 1443. In 1413 a private war broke out between Juan de Sant Pedro, from the Labourd in the English Duchy of Gascony, and the Navarrese...

Basque Duchy of Gascony which was often at odds with the Frankish Duchy of Aquitaine. The County of Bigorre was formed by the Dukes of Gascony in the...