Count of Armagnac
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The following is a list of rulers of the county of Armagnac:

House of Armagnac

  • William Count of Fézensac and Armagnac ?– 960
  • Bernard the Suspicious, First count privative of Armagnac 960– ?
  • Gerald I Trancaléon ? –1020
  • Bernard I Tumapaler 1020–1061
  • Gerald II 1061–1095
  • Arnauld-Bernard II (associated 1072 for about ten years)
  • Bernard III 1095–1110
  • Gerald III 1110–1160
  • Bernard IV 1160–1188
  • Gerald IV Trancaléon 1188–1215
  • Gerald V 1215–1219
    • Bernart Arnaut d'Armagnac
      Bernart Arnaut d'Armagnac
      Bernart Arnaut d'Armagnac , also Bernard Arnaud, was a troubadour and from 1217 the Count of Armagnac in opposition to his brother, Gerald V, who inherited it from the childless Gerald IV. Bernart and Gerald were both sons of Bernard of Fézensaguet.Sometime before 1217, Bernart Arnaut had a...

       1217–1226, in opposition
  • Pierre-Gerald 1219–1241
  • Bernard V  1241–1245
  • Mascarose I (countess) 1245
  • Arnauld II count of Lectoure and Lomagne 1245–1249
  • Mascarose II 1249–1256
  • Eskivat de Chabanais
    Eskivat de Chabanais
    Eschivat IV Chabanais was Count of Bigorre from 1255 to 1283 and Count of Armagnac and de Fézensac of 1255 in 1256. He was the son of Jordan, Lord of Chabanais, and Alix de Montfort, Countess of Bigorre.- Biography :...

    , lord of Chabannais 1249–1256
  • Gerald VI
    Gerald VI of Armagnac
    Gerald VI, , was Viscount Fezensaguet from 1240 to 1285, then Count of Armagnac and Fezensac from 1256 to 1285. He was the son of Roger d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fezensaguet, and Pincelle d'Albret....

     1256–1285
  • Bernard VI 1285–1319
  • Jean I  1319–1373
  • Jean II the Hunchbacked
    John II of Armagnac
    John II, the Hunchback, , Count of Armagnac, of Fézensac, Rodez and Count of Charolais , Viscount Lomagne and Auvillars, he was the son of John I, Count of Armagnac, of Fezensac and Rodez, Viscount Lomagne and Auvillars and Beatrix de Clermont, great-granddaughter of Louis IX of France.During the...

     1373–1384
  • Jean III  1384–1391
  • Bernard VII
    Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
    Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac was the Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac, and Constable of France. He was the son of John II and Jeanne de Périgord. He succeeded in Armagnac at the death of his brother, John III, in 1391...

     1391–1418
  • Jean IV 1418–1450
  • Jean V
    Jean V of Armagnac
    John V of Armagnac , the next-to-last Count of Armagnac of the older branch, was the controversial son of John IV of Armagnac and Isabella of Navarre, an emblem of 15th century aristocratic violence, treachery and indiscipline, a wildman from one of the most powerful virtually independent...

     1450–1473
  • Charles I
    Charles I of Armagnac
    Charles d'Armagnac, born 1425, died June 3, 1497 in Castelnau-de-Montmiral at the age of 72 years, was Count of Armagnac and Rodez from 1473 to 1497. He was the son of John IV, Count of Armagnac and Rodez, and Isabella d'Évreux. After his brother John V's ambitions against the king of France,...

     1473–1497

House of Albret

  • Henri I
    Henry II of Navarre
    Henry II was the eldest son of John III of Navarre and Catherine I of Navarre, sister and heiress of Francis Phoebus, King of Navarre; he was born at Sangüesa.-King of Navarre:...

     1527-1555
  • Jeanne of Albret 1555-1572
  • Henry II
    Henry IV of France
    Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

     (King of France as Henry IV 1572-1589)

House of Lorraine
House of Lorraine
The House of Lorraine, the main and now only remaining line known as Habsburg-Lorraine, is one of the most important and was one of the longest-reigning royal houses in the history of Europe...

  • Henry de Lorraine, the Young 1607-1666
  • Louis de Lorraine
    Louis, Count of Armagnac
    Louis of Lorraine was the Count of Armagnac from his father's death in 1666. The Grand Squire of France, he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House of Lorraine...

     1666-1718, son of the above;
  • Charles de Lorraine
    Charles, Count of Armagnac
    Charles of Lorraine was a member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. Succeeding his father as the Count of Armagnac, he also succeeded to being the Count of Brionne as well as the Grand Squire of France.-Biography:Born to Louis of Lorraine, comte d'Armagnac and his wife...

    1718-1751, son of the above.

External links

  • The Households of the Counts of Armagnac in the Late Middle Ages - abstract of a paper analyzing the household expenses of Count Bernard VII, from the Société Internationale des Médiévistes.
  • An account of the dramatic fall of the House of Armagnac is given in Marin Calder's book A Summer in Gascony, link: http://www.asummeringascony.com/
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