Gerald V d'Armagnac (died 1219),
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 ...
and
Fézensac from 1215 to 1219, was the son of
Bernard d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fézensaguet and Geralda of
Foix
Foix (; oc, Fois ; ca, Foix ) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the Préfecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of south ...
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[''Bulletin de la Section de géographie'', Vol.15, Ed. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (Imprimerie Nationale, 1900), 128.]
In 1182, his great uncle the Count Bernard IV of Armagnac, made Gerald's father, Bernard, heir in case he died without children. But Gerald IV (Trancaléon) was born in the years that followed and it was not until 1215 that Gerald IV died childless, and Gerald V became Count of Armagnac and Fézensac.
On June 8, 1215, to avoid the fate of Count
Raymond VI of Toulouse, he acknowledged
Simon de Montfort
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( – 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was a nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the ...
as overlord. In 1217, Count Raymond VI rebelled against Simon de Montfort. Simon called Gerald for help and their troops laid siege to the city and conquered the surrounding country, and Isle-Jourdain was given to Gerald. Simon was killed during the
Siege of Toulouse.
Marriage and children
* Peter Gerard († 1241), Count of Armagnac and Fézensac
* Bernard V († 1245), Count of Armagnac and Fézensac after his brother
*
Mascarose I († 1249), Countess of Armagnac and Fézensac, married Arnaud Odon († 1256), Viscount Lomagne.
Confusion surrounding numbering
Some historians and genealogists, including the famous
Pere Anselme de Sainte-Marie, confuse him with Gerald IV. It is for this reason that his nephew who became Earl Gerald of Lomagne is sometimes numbered Gerald V instead of VI.
See also
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House of Armagnac
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 y ...
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1219 deaths
Counts of France
Year of birth unknown