The House of Armagnac is a French noble house established in 961 by Bernard I, Count of Armagnac. It achieved its greatest importance in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The House of Armagnac, at the end of the thirteenth century, was not yet powerful enough to play a political role beyond its possessions. The House of Toulouse, which ruled over the large southeast of France, was defeated by the Capetians during the Albigensian Crusade, but local dynasties, like the House of Foix, the Counts of Comminges and the House of Albret, were gaining momentum.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Armagnacs reached the rank of great feudal lords with the legacy of the County of Rodez. This heritage, combined with its Gascon lands, allowed the family to hold a rank of major importance in the heart of the nobility and, therefore, to ally itself to the royal House of France.
Between the fourteenth and fifteenth century, the Armagnacs came into possession of other territories including the counties of Charolais, La Marche, Pardiac, Castres, the land of Nemours elevated to a duchy, and the Carladez. After being attached to the Kings of France during the fourteenth century, the Counts of Armagnac sought to emancipate themselves (money title Dei gracia) from the Royal Trust in the fifteenth century and took an active part in the last struggles of feudalism in France. King Louis XI broke their desire for independence by force and the Armagnacs would never recover from their defeat. They declined and became extinct in the sixteenth century.
The House of Armagnac's most famous member was Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and Rodez, Constable of France, leader of the Armagnacs opposed to the Burgundians during the Hundred Years' War.
The House of Armagnac is from the lineage of the former Dukes of Gascony known since the eighth or ninth century.
The HouseofArmagnac is a French noble house established in 961 by Bernard I, Count ofArmagnac. It achieved its greatest importance in the fourteenth...
Béarn, Armagnac, Bigorre, Comminges, Nébouzan, Labourd, etc. The Duchy of Vasconia between the Adour and the Garonne, gradually became the Duchy of Gascony...
Marie ofArmagnac (c. 1420–1473) was a French noblewoman, daughter of John IV ofArmagnac and his second wife, Isabella of Navarre. On 30 April 1437, Marie...
younger son of Louis II of Anjou. While disputed by the Houseof Luxembourg (1425–1444), the county was ultimately retained by the Houseof Anjou and its...
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outbreak of a long feud between the Housesof Foix and Armagnac. From 1278 the counts of Foix, and their legal successors, have also been Co-princes of Andorra...
Joan ofArmagnac (French: Jeanne d'Armagnac; 24 June 1346 – 1387) was a French noblewoman of the Armagnac family, being the eldest daughter of Count John...
extinction of the houseofArmagnac-Pardiac. In 1507, it was given by Louis XII of France to his nephew, Gaston de Foix, who was killed at the Battle of Ravenna...
ofArmagnac (French: Jean d'Armagnac) may refer to: John I, Count ofArmagnac (1311–1373) John II, Count ofArmagnac (1333–1384) John III, Count of Armagnac...
marriage to Martha ofArmagnac. Yolande later played an important role in the politics of England, France, and Aragon during the first half of the 15th century...
Martha ofArmagnac (after 18 February 1347 – 23 October 1378) was the youngest child of John I, Count ofArmagnac, and his second wife Beatrice of Clermont...
Bonne ofArmagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count ofArmagnac and Constable of France, and his wife Bonne of Berry...
Picardy. The family was loyal to the HouseofArmagnac, and Gaucourt had "strong personal connections" with Charles, Duke of Orléans, Charles I d'Albret and...
between Armagnac and Foix-Béarn (1290–1377), after the death of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn, causing a long, intermittent feud between the Houseof Armagnac...
placed in the custody of Bernard, Count ofArmagnac; his supporters became known as "Armagnacs", while supporters of the Duke of Burgundy became known...
(died 1219), Count ofArmagnac and Fézensac from 1215 to 1219, was the son of Bernard d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fézensaguet and Geralda of Foix. In 1182, his...
with one of his more rebellious nobles, the Count ofArmagnac having already made proposals previously. An alliance with the impoverished houseof Anjou...
the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War. In 1415 Henry V of England, great-grandson of Edward III, invaded France. In the Battle of Agincourt, the Armagnac faction...
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