
	Where results make sense

Topic: Count of Armagnac

Related Topics

Count of Foix

Counts and dukes of Angouleme

Armagnac

Claude of France

Francis I of France

Gascony

Marguerite of Navarre

The Three Musketeers

Italian Wars

In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Daughter CLERKE - Beraud of CLERMONT-EN-AUVERGNE
		/- Geoffroy of CLERMONT, Count of Clermont Gilles of CLERMONT, Count of Clermont
		1 Gilles of CLERMONT, Count of Clermont = Adelheid (Laurette) of LOOZ
		/- Tristan of CAPERTINO, Count of Capertino Isabel of CLERMONT \- Caterina ORSINI
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dphaner/HTML/people/p000007u.htm (1959 words)

	Charlotte D'ARMAGNAC - William D'AUBIGNY
		/- Bernard VII of D'ARMAGNAC, Count of Charolais /- Bernard of Pardiac D'ARMAGNAC, Count of Pariac
		\- Jeanne of PERIGORD /- Bernard of Pardiac D'ARMAGNAC, Count of Pariac
		\- Beatrice of CLERMONT, Countess of Charolais /- Bernard VII of D'ARMAGNAC, Count of Charolais
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dphaner/HTML/people/p0000099.htm (1765 words)

	All about Armagnac - RecipeLand.com Reference library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The hilly Armagnac region in the foothills of the Pyrenées, between the Adour and Garonne rivers is a historic comté of the Duchy of Gascony (Gascogne), established in 601 CE in the southwest of Aquitaine (now France).
		The three great territorial lords were the count of Armagnac, the count of Foix, and the lord of Albret.
		Armagnac has given its name to its distinctive kind of brandy or eau de vie, made of the same grapes as Cognac, and undergoing the same aging in oak barrels) but without double distillation.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Armagnacs (222 words)

	ARMAGNAC - LoveToKnow Article on ARMAGNAC
		Armagnac is a region of hills ranging to a height of Iooo ft., watered by the river Gers and other rivers which descend fanwise from the plateau of Lannemezan.
		Under the English rule co e counts of Armagnac were turbulent and untrustworthy H: ssals; and the administration of the Black Prince, tending to Ja,our the towns of Aquitaine at the expense of the nobles, drove of 1m to the side of France.
		The rivalry of the Burgundians and Armagnacs ag ought terrible disasters upon France, and for many years after- or irds the name of Armagnacs was bestowed upon the bands us adventurers who were as much to be feared as the Grandes pc mpagnies of the preceding age.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARMAGNAC.htm (2450 words)

	FOIX - LoveToKnow Article on FOIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Counts of Foix.The counts of Foix were an old and distinguished French family which flourished from the 11th to the 1 5th century.
		Becoming embroiled with the French king, Philip IV., in consequence of the struggle with the count of Armagnac, Gaston was imprisoned in Paris; but quickly regaining his freedom he accompanied King Louis X. on an expedition into Flanders in 1315, and died on his return to France in the same year.
		Gaston, however, continued to fight against the count of Armagnac, who, in 1362, was defeated and compelled to pay a ransom; and this war lasted until 1377, when peace was made.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOIX.htm (3828 words)

	Count of Armagnac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Count of Fezensac and Armagnac ?- 960
		Arnauld II count of Lectoure and Lomagne 1245-1249
		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 SociÃ©tÃ© Internationale des MÃ©diÃ©vistes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County_of_Armagnac (124 words)

	Articles - Counts of Foix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They were at first feudatories of the counts of Toulouse, but soon succeeded in establishing their independence, and during the 13th and 14th centuries the counts of Foix figured among the most powerful of the French feudal nobles.
		This count married Marguerite, daughter and heiress of Gaston VII, Viscount of BÃ©arn (died 1290), and he inherited BÃ©arn and NÃ©bouzan from his father-in-law in 1290, which led to the outbreak of a long feud between the houses of Foix and Armagnac.
		Becoming embroiled with the French king, Philip IV, in consequence of the struggle with the count of Armagnac, Gaston was imprisoned in Paris.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Counts_of_Foix (1747 words)

	AllRefer.com - Armagnac, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Armagnac [ArmAnyAk´] Pronunciation Key, region and former county, SW France, in Gascony, roughly coextensive with Gers dept. Auch is the chief town.
		The counts of Armagnac originated in the 10th cent.
		Armagnac eventually passed to her second husband, Henri d'Albret, king of Navarre, whose grandson became King Henry IV.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/ArmagncFr.html (208 words)

	Froissart: How the ransom of the Count d'Armagnac was reduced
		During the time the prince and princess were at Tarbes, the count was in his town of Pau, erecting a handsome castle adjoining to the outskirts of the town, and on the river Gave.
		The count d'Armagnac and the lord d'Albreth were present, and the prince was entreated to request the count do Foix to release the count from all, or part of what he was indebted to him for his ransom.
		The count d'Armagnac, on hearing this, was quite thunderstruck: and, notwithstanding he had failed in his expectations, he made a similar request to the princess, who cheerfully entreated the count de Foix to grant her a boon.
	www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/muhlberger/froissart/armagnac.htm (550 words)

	Armagnacs and Burgundians
		Armagnacs and Burgundians, opposing factions that fought to control France in the early 15th cent.
		The Armagnacs came into power and conducted the defense of France against King Henry V of England, who invaded the kingdom in 1415.
		John took advantage of French defeats to return to Paris and seize the king (1418); in the ensuing massacre of the Armagnacs, Bernard VII and numerous followers were killed.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0804751.html (285 words)

	John, Duke of Berry
		John of Valois, the Magnificent, ( November 30 1340 — March 15 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier.
		Bonne of Berry (1365-1435), married Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
		Mary of Berry, Duchess of Auvergne (1367-1434), married: 1) Louis III of Chatillon, Count of Dunois; 2) Philip of Artois, Count d'Eu; 3) John I, Duke of Bourbon
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john__duke_of_berry.html (228 words)

	Articles - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac ( 1360 â“ June 12, 1418) was count of Armagnac, count of Charolais and constable of France.
		He became count of Armagnac at the death of his brother, Jean III in 1391.
		Bernard d'Armagnac became the nominal head of the faction which opposed John of Burgundy, and the faction came to be called the "Armagnacs" as a oonsequence.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/Bernard_VII,_Count_of_Armagnac (295 words)

	Armagnac Guides, Tutorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Armagnac has given its name to its distinctive kind of brandy or eau de vie, made of the same grapes as Cognac, and udergoing the same aging in oak barrel s) but without double distillation Distillation is a means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points.
		Known since antiquity, the concentration of alcohol by the application of heat to a fermented liquid mixture is perhaps the oldest form of distillation.
		Armagnac The hilly Armagnac region in the foothills of the Pyrenees, between the Adour and Garonne rivers is a historic comt of the Duchy of Gascony (Gascogne), established in 601 CE in the southwest of Aquitaine (now France).
	www.masterliness.com /a/Armagnac.htm (274 words)

	Patrick Delaforce Family History Research chapter 39
		The comté of Armagnac regained and absorbed the comté of Fezensac in 1140.
		Armagnac was divided into two areas: 'le haut' or "blanc Armagnac" with Auch as capital and ‘le bas’ or "le noir Armagnac" with Nogaro as capital.
		Jean Count of Armagnac fighting for France recaptured Gascon lands until the Black Prince with an army of 5000 came from Bordeaux and forced Armagnac to retreat to Toulouse.
	www.art-science.com /Ken/Genealogy/PD/ch39_Fezensacs.html (2075 words)

	[No title]
		On a daily basis, the count’s household brought together one to two hundred residents and visitors, and over the course of a year as many as five hundred individuals spent some time at the count’s table.
		On the eve of the fifteenth century, the counts of Armagnac assumed unprecedented roles as both regional power-brokers and as actors in aristocratic intrigues dividing the royal family.
		A prosopographical analysis shows that men who dined with Bernard VII at the end of the fourteenth century, whether or not he was their lord, went on to serve in his military household during the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1410-1435).
	ims-paris.org /05Abstracts/PollackLagushenko.html (364 words)

	Restaurant Report - Armagnac
		Armagnac is aged in fl oak casks which are sourced in the local Monlezun Forest of Landes.
		Vintage Armagnac must be of the designated year and is stored in the cask until bottled with the vintage date on the label.
		Because Armagnac retains the character of the vintage from which it was produced, there are great years and less great years.
	www.restaurantreport.com /Features/ft_armagnac.html (2623 words)

	news.mod.uk - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Duke of Burgundy and the Count of Armagnac brought out reinforcements from the garrison.
		Armagnac's men routed the Ypres troops, who were trapped against the river and slaughtered.
		Although the inner defences of the town and its castle were formidable, the French garrison under the Count of Eu felt obliged to try to defend the suburb of the Ile Saint-Jean.
	news.mod.uk /news_headline_story.asp?newsItem_id=1876 (809 words)

	County of Foix (Traditional province, France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was of the family of the counts of Carcassonne, who were in the IXth century vassals of the counts of Toulouse and progressively gained independence.
		It is often said that the counts of Foix were descendants of the royal Merovingian dynasty through Eudes, duke of Aquitaine.
		The powerful count of Armagnac and duke of Berry set up an alliance against Febus but he eventually defeated them in Laurac on 5 December 1362.
	www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/fr-ctfoi.html (1018 words)

	Armagnac
		Armagnac, region and former county, SW France, in
		Armagnacs and Burgundians - Armagnacs and Burgundians, opposing factions that fought to control France in the early 15th cent.
		Armagnac, Bernard VII, Count Armagnac (died 1418) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0804750.html (262 words)

	EDWARD - Online Information article about EDWARD
		In September 1355 he was sent to Gascony at the head of an English army, having been appointed his father's lieutenant there in July.
		He was not, however, successful in winning over the greater nobles, who, with John, count of Armagnac, at their head, were dissatisfied with the separation from France, and looked with suspicion upon Edward's attempts to reform the administration as being likely to result in the curtailment of their feudal rights.
		Edward was better able to conciliate the towns, whose franchises he favoured and whose trade he fostered, hoping that they would prove a counterpoise to the aristocracy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EDWARD.html (1388 words)

	St. Joan of Arc's Trial of Condemnation
		"Count d'Armagnac, my very good and dear friend, I, Jeanne, the Maid, acquaint you that your message has come before me, which tells me that you have sent at once to know from me which of the three Popes, mentioned in your memorial, you should believe.
		I told the messenger of the Count some things which are not in this copy; and, if the messenger had not gone off immediately, he would have been thrown into the water - not by me, however.
		As to the Count's inquiry, desiring to know whom God wished him to obey, I answered that I did not know; but I sent him messages on several things which have not been put in writing.
	www.stjoan-center.com /Trials/sec05.html (2760 words)

	earlyBlazon.com
		Most of the lords of Languedoc embraced the cause of the count of Toulouse at some stage or protected cathars (some even were cathars).
		Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, Count of Quercy, Rouergue and Saint-Gilles ( France)
		Viscount of Brassac, lord of Castelnau: vassal of the count of Toulouse.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /earlyblazon/nation/france/toulouse.htm (796 words)

	Armagnacs and Burgundians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In the conflicts that followed, the partisans of Charles d’ Orléans, son of Louis, were led by Charles’s father-in-law, Bernard VII, count of Armagnac, after whom they were named.
		His son and successor, Philip the Good of Burgundy, immediately concluded a treaty with the English (see Troyes, Treaty of), by which he recognized the succession to the French throne of Henry V. This alliance remained in force until 1435 when Philip signed the Treaty of Arras with Charles VII.
		Although the terms Armagnacs and Burgundians ceased to have their original meanings, the struggle between the French crown and Burgundy continued until the death (1477) of Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ar/ArmagncNB.html (355 words)

	Count of Armagnac Definition / Count of Armagnac Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The following is a list of Counts of Armagnac The hilly Armagnac region in the foothills of the Pyrenées, between the Adour and Garonne rivers is a historic comté of the Duchy of Gascony (Gascogne), established in 601 CE in the southwest of Aquitaine (now France).
		After much fighting in the Hundred Years War, during which the Armagnacs were identified as major su...
		Henry II of Albret (king of Navarre, King of France as Henry IV of France Henry IV (French: Henri IV) (December 13, 1553 - May 14, 1610), named the Great (French: le Grand), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until 1610.
	www.elresearch.com /Count_of_Armagnac (261 words)

	Duke of Alencon
		He was the second son of Jean Ier (1385-1415), Count then Duke of Alençon, killed to Azincourt, and of Marie de Bretagne ( 1446).
		He married 1° 1423, Jeanne d'Orléans (1409-1432), elder daughter of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and of Isabelle de France; 2° 1437, Marie d'Armagnac ( 1473), daughter of Jean IV, Count of Armagnac, and of Isabelle de Navarre.
		King's Lieutenant General for the campaign on the river Loire, he was present with Joan of Arc to Jargeau and to Patay, to Reims where he was one of six lay peers.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /jean-claude.colrat/2alencon.htm (262 words)

	Le site officiel Auvillar - History of Auvillar
		The Count of Toulouse, Raymond VI, who encouraged the intrigues of the heretics, was let down by the inhabitants of Auvillar who chose to back Simon of Montfort, the leader of the crusaders’ party.
		Alas, the peace was short-lived; a year later, Arnaud Othon sided with Simon of Montfort (the son of the famous leader of the crusade, who bore the titles of Count of Leycester, Governor of Gascony for the King of England), against Geraud of Armagnac who had paid allegiance to the Count of Toulouse.
		The Count of Toulouse summoned Othon to Agen on 11 June 1249, then and there enjoining him to free the Count of Armagnac and to restore the Castle of Auvillar to him, as well as all the estates that the Viscount possessed in Agenais.
	www.auvillar.com /history-en.php (1521 words)

	Lists of office-holders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Count of La Marche, see County of La Marche
		Counts Palatine of the Rhine and Electors Palatinate
		Counts of Jaffa and Ascalon, see County of Jaffa and Ascalon
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lists_of_incumbents (905 words)

	THE BATTLE OF ST OMER (1340) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He and the Count of Armagnac led their retinues, about 850 men, out of the town gates.
		The Count of Armagnac and his men galloped round the southern edge of the battlefield to join thee melee, which had been in progress since mid-day.
		The Duke of Burgundy did not accompany the Count of Armagnac to the battle on the southern flank.
	www.100yearswar.co.uk /stomer1340.htm (1460 words)

	Langued'oc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In southwestern France, a partition county alongside Armagnac and Fezenzac of the Duchy of Gascony.
		The city of Narbonne itself became partitioned between the Counts of Toulouse in one end of town, and the Bishops of Narbonne in the other.
		From the 12th century, nearly all the Counts utilized the name "Dauphin" as part of their names, and by the 14th century, it had assumed the status of a title.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Languedoc.html (2275 words)

	Armagnac on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Luxury Brandy Armagnac May Help Prevent Blood Clots and Maintain Cardiovascular Health, Study Shows.
		Collabria Names New CEO: Donald Armagnac Joins the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer.
		A la cave coopérative de Nogaro, sur une chaîne d'embouteillage de vieil Armagnac, en avril 2002 Les producteurs d'armagna.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/ArmagncF1r.asp (371 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)