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Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) was Count of Armagnac and Constable of France. 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
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. , - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard 07 Of Armagnac Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Armagnac, Bernard VII Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Armagnac, Bernard VII, Count of People of the Hundred Years' War People assassinated in the 15th century Assassinated French politicians People murdered in Paris Medieval murder victims
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) was Count of Armagnac and Constable of France. 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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late in 1389 in an attempt to seize the kingdom's continental possessions (the County of Roussillon), Bernard commanded part of his forces.
Bernard's wife was Bonne, the daughter of John, Duke of Berry, and widow of Count Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy. He first gained influence at the French court when Louis, Duke of Orléans married Valentina Visconti, the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. 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 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, ...
in 1410. Bernard d'Armagnac became the nominal head of the faction which opposed John the Fearless in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, and the faction came to be called the "Armagnacs" as a consequence.
Armagnac 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 on 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 over a period of weeks throughout the summer.
Children
Bernard and Bonne had: * John IV, Count of Armagnac, 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, ...
* Bernard, Count of Pardiac, married Eleanor, heiress to La Marche
References
Sources
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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. , - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard 07 Of Armagnac Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Armagnac, Bernard VII Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac Armagnac, Bernard VII, Count of People of the Hundred Years' War People assassinated in the 15th century Assassinated French politicians People murdered in Paris Medieval murder victims