Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) was
Count of Armagnac
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 ...
and
Constable of France
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. He was the son of
John II, Count of Armagnac, and Jeanne de Périgord. He succeeded in Armagnac at the death of his brother,
John III, in 1391. After prolonged fighting, he also became
Count of Comminges in 1412.
When his brother, who claimed the
Kingdom of Majorca, invaded northern
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...
late in 1389 in an attempt to seize the kingdom's continental possessions (the
County of Roussillon
The County of Roussillon ( ca, Comtat de Rosselló, , la, Comitatus Ruscinonensis) was one of the Catalan counties in the Marca Hispanica during the Middle Ages. The rulers of the county were the counts of Roussillon, whose interests lay both n ...
), Bernard commanded part of his forces.
Bernard's wife was
Bonne
Bonne or Bonné can refer to:
People
; Given name
* Bonne of Armagnac (1399 – 1430/35), eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and of Bonne of Berry
* Bonne of Artois, (1396-1425), daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu and of Mar ...
, the daughter of
John, Duke of Berry
John of Berry or John the Magnificent (French: ''Jean de Berry'', ; 30 November 1340 – 15 June 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. He was Regent of France during the minority of his nephew 1380-13 ...
, and widow of Count
Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
Amadeus VII (24 February 1360 – 1 November 1391), known as the Red Count, was Count of Savoy from 1383 to 1391.
Biography
Amadeus was born in Chambéry on 24 February 1360, the son of Count Amadeus VI of Savoy and Bonne of Bourbon. Altho ...
. He first gained influence at the French court when
Louis, Duke of Orléans married
Valentina Visconti Valentina Visconti is the name of:
* Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371–1408)
* Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus
Valentina Visconti (ca. 1357 – before September 1393) was Queen consort of Cyprus and titular Queen consort of Jerus ...
, the daughter of
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti (16 October 1351 – 3 September 1402), was the first duke of Milan (1395) and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He also ruled Lombardy jointly with his uncle Bernabò. He was the foun ...
,
Duke of Milan
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Before elevation to duchy
Until 1259, Milan was a free commune that elec ...
. Bernard's sister Beatrice married Valentina's brother Carlo.
After Louis'
assassination
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in 1407, Armagnac remained attached to the cause of Orléans. He married his daughter
Bonne
Bonne or Bonné can refer to:
People
; Given name
* Bonne of Armagnac (1399 – 1430/35), eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and of Bonne of Berry
* Bonne of Artois, (1396-1425), daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu and of Mar ...
to the young
Charles, Duke of Orléans
Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, a ...
in 1410. Bernard d'Armagnac became the nominal head of the faction which opposed
John the Fearless
John I (french: Jean sans Peur; nl, Jan zonder Vrees; 28 May 137110 September 1419) was a scion of the French royal family who ruled the Burgundian State from 1404 until his death in 1419. He played a key role in French national affairs during ...
in the
Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a conflict between two cadet branches of the French royal family – the House of Orléans ( Armagnac faction) and the House of Burgundy (Burgundian faction) from 1407 to 1435. It began during a lull in th ...
, and the faction came to be called the "Armagnacs" as a consequence.
He became constable of France in 1415 and was the head of the government of the
Dauphin, the future
Charles VII, until the Burgundians invaded Paris in the night of 28–29 May 1418. On 12 June 1418, he was one of the first victims of the massacres in which anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000 of his real or suspected followers were killed in the course of weeks throughout the summer.
Children
With Bonne of Berry, they had:
*
John IV, Count of Armagnac
John IV (15 October 1396 – 5 November 1450) was a Count of Armagnac, Fézensac, and Rodez from 1418 to 1450. He was involved in the intrigues related to the Hundred Years' War and in conflicts against the King of France.
Biography
Born 15 ...
, married 1) Blanche of Brittany and 2)
Isabella of Navarre
*
Anne of Armagnac, married
Charles II of Albret
*
Bonne of Armagnac
Bonne of Armagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and Constable of France, and his wife Bonne of Berry.
Marriage
On 15 April 1410 at the age of 11, she married Charles, Duke of Orléans ...
, married
Charles, Duke of Orléans
Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, a ...
*
Bernard, Count of Pardiac, married Eleanor, heiress to
La Marche
References
Sources
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External links
* -Family tree from the Medieval Lands Project
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.
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