The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the modern...
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Gascony (/ˈɡæskəni/; French: Gascogne [ɡaskɔɲ]) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453). From...
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consisting of Gascony and the southern fringe of Aquitaine proper, is conventionally known as "Aquitaine" and forms the historical basis for the later duchy. Charibert...
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Lancaster Duchy of Anjou Duchy of Aquitaine Duchy of Berry Duchy of Bourbon Duchy of Brittany Duchy of Burgundy Duchy of Gascony Duchy of Guyenne Duchy of Normandy...
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foothills of the Pyrenées, was a historic county of the Duchy of Gascony, established in 601 in Aquitaine (now France). In 960, the title of 'Count of Armagnac'...
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France (a Scottish ally) after King Philip IV confiscated the Duchy of Gascony. The duchy was eventually recovered but the conflict relieved English military...
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Ramnulfids (redirect from House of Poitiers)
dominance of northern Aquitaine and the ducal title to the whole with the House of Auvergne. In 1032, they inherited the Duchy of Gascony, thus uniting...
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Aquitani (category Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula)
the Gascon language while part of the Roman Empire, then the Duchy of Gascony and the Duchy of Aquitaine. At the time of the Roman conquest, Julius Caesar...
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Guyenne (redirect from Duchy of Guyenne)
united with Gascony, it formed a duchy extending from the Charente River to the Pyrenees mountains. This duchy was held as a fief on the terms of homage to...
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The Battle of Castillon was a battle between the forces of England and France which took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne...
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of 1294 to 1303 was a military conflict between English and French forces over the Duchy of Aquitaine, including the Duchy of Gascony. The Duchy of Aquitaine...
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Spanish March (redirect from March of Gothia)
territories of the Christian Carolingian Empire—the Duchy of Gascony, the Duchy of Aquitaine, and Septimania—from the Muslim Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba in...
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1275, and in creating an alliance with the Kingdom of England in 1254, his claim on the Duchy of Gascony as well. Alfonso's scientific interests—he is sometimes...
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Hundred Years' War (redirect from English Occupation of France)
his hands was the Duchy of Gascony. The term Gascony came to be used for the territory held by the Angevin (Plantagenet) kings of England in southwest...
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French Crown over the Duchy of Gascony led to the War of Saint-Sardos in 1324. Charles, Edward's brother-in-law, had become King of France in 1322, and...
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Lower Navarre (category Former provinces of France)
western mountains of Zuberoa). The lands of the Lower Navarre were part of the Duchy of Vasconia that turned into Gascony by the end of the first millennium...
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a military campaign against the Duchy of Aquitaine and the Duchy of Gascony. He leads a Frankish army to the city of Bordeaux, where he sets up a fort...
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Bigorre (category Former provinces of France)
Basque Duchy of Gascony which was often at odds with the Frankish Duchy of Aquitaine. The County of Bigorre was formed by the Dukes of Gascony in the...
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up Gascony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gascony is a province of southwestern France. Gascony may also refer to: Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia...
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later Principality of Béarn (Gascon: Bearn or Biarn), was a medieval lordship in the far south of France, part of the Duchy of Gascony from the late ninth...
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military campaigns left him in heavy debt and when Philip IV of France confiscated the Duchy of Gascony in 1294, Edward needed funds to wage war in France. When...
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Francia (redirect from Kingdom of the Franks)
Theudebert and Theuderic campaigned successfully in Gascony, where they had established the Duchy of Gascony and brought the Basques to submission (602). This...
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possessions of their holders, or to political reorganizations. For example, the Duchy of Gascony disappeared in the 11th century, and the Duchy of Normandy...
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The County of Bigorre was a small feudatory of the Duchy of Gascony in the ninth through 15th centuries. Its capital was Tarbes. The county was constituted...
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VI of Navarre. In 1177, this led to Henry overseeing arbitration of the border dispute. Around 1200, Alfonso began to claim that the duchy of Gascony was...
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Saint-Sever Beatus (redirect from Apocalypse of Saint-Sever)
manuscript was made at Saint-Sever Abbey, then in the Duchy of Gascony, under the direction of Gregory of Montaner, abbot between 1028 and 1072. It is believed...
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Seneschal of Gascony Oliver Ingham was recalled to England and replaced with Nicholas de la Beche. Beche upheld the Truce of Malestroit in the duchy as best...
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nephew of the deceased count, bringing it fully within his sphere of influence. Sancho established relations with the Duchy of Gascony, probably of a suzerain–vassal...
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suppression of the Duchy of Vasconia as well as the Duchy of Aquitaine by the Carolingians would lead to a rebellion, led by Lupo II of Gascony. Pepin the Short...
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cede the Duchy of Gascony from the English. Following the decisive victory of the French at the battle of Castillion and after the fall of Bordeaux, the last...
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