Bernard II Tumapaler (or ''Tumpaler'',

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: ''Bernat'',

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: ''Bernardo''; c. 1020between 1064 and 1090) was

Duke of Gascony The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia ( eu, Baskoniako dukerria; oc, ducat de Gasconha; french: duché de Gascogne, duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the m ...

from 1039 to 1052 and

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 ...

from 1020 to 1061. Bernard was the son of Adalais, daughter of

William V of Aquitaine William the Great (french: Guillaume le Grand; 969 – 31 January 1030) was duke of Aquitaine (as ) and count of Poitou (as or III) from 990 until his death. Upon the death of the emperor Henry II, he was offered the kingdom of Ital ...

and Prisca, and Girard I Trancaleon, whom he succeeded in Armagnac. Prisca was a daughter of William II of Gascony and it was through her that Bernard inherited his Gascon claim. Prisca's claim was passed to her son Odo on the death of her brother Sancho VI in 1032. Bernard was recognised duke in turn on the death of his uncle Odo in 1039, but probably only in the southern regions and not in the region around

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. Later his title to Gascony was contested by his uncle Guy Geoffrey, younger half-brother of Odo, but not descended from William II. Guy Geoffrey, however, was married to Garsenda, daughter of Aldabert II of Périgord and Alausia, the second daughter of the late Sancho VI. Eventually, after a protracted fight, Bernard was defeated at the Battle of La Castelle (fought between Cazères and Grenade on the Adour) and had to relinquish Gascony to Guy Geoffrey for 15,000 '' sous''. However, by then the title was almost empty, as most of Gascony had been dismembered and parcelled out as

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s, being in the hand of the counts of Béarn, Bigorre,

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, Comminges, Astarac. Guy Geoffrey had only conquered a rump Gascony. Bernard fought the

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, partisan of Guy Geoffrey. He abdicated from Gascony before 4 May 1052 and Armagnac by 1061. He may have entered a monastery. In May 1063, he led a rebellion of the Gascon barons against Guy Geoffrey, who had inherited the

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in the meanwhile, but was soundly defeated and Gascony firmly bound to Aquitaine. He disappeared from history, but is not surely dead until 1090. He married Ermengard and had three children: * Arnold * Girard, along with Arnold made a joint donation to the

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in 1049. * Gisela married

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*Higounet, Charles. ''Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age''. Bordeaux, 1963. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tumapaler, Bernard Ii Counts of Armagnac Dukes of Gascony 1020s births 11th-century French nobility Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain