Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) was
Count of Comminges
in 1412.
When his brother, who claimed the Kingdom of Majorca, invaded northern Catalonia 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
Duke of Milan
. Bernard's sister Beatrice married Valentina's brother Carlo.
After Louis'
Bonne to the young Charles, Duke of Orléans in 1410.[5] 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.
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.[6]
Children
Bernard and Bonne had:
- Isabella of Navarre[2]
- Charles II of Albret[2]
- Bonne of Armagnac, married Charles, Duke of Orléans[2]
- Bernard, Count of Pardiac, married Eleanor, heiress to La Marche[2]
References
- ^ Vaughan 2009, p. 209.
- ^ a b c d e Lodge 1926, p. 14.
- ^ Schnerb 2005, p. 108.
- ^ Samaran 1905, p. 246.
- ^ Harrington 1998, p. 232.
- ^ Sizer 2007.
Sources
- Harrington, David V. (1998). "Charles d'Orléans". The Middle Ages: Dictionary of World Biography. Vol. 2. Routledge. ISBN 0-89356-314-5.
- Lodge, Eleanor C. (1926). Gascony under English Rule. Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Samaran, Charles (1905). "De quelques manuscrits ayant appartenu à Jean d'Armagnac" (PDF). Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes Année. 66 (1).
- Schnerb, Bertrand (2005). "Un Seigneur auvergnat à la Cour de Bourgogne: Renaud II, Vicomte de Murat (1405–1420)". Annuaire-Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de France.
- Sizer, Michael (2007). "The Calamity of Violence: Reading the Paris Massacres of 1418". Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. 35. Michigan Publishing.
- Vaughan, Richard (2009). John the Fearless. The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0851159164.
External links
- 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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