The following is a list of Counts of Armagnac: A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a countess. Originally the title comes denoted the rank of a high official in the late Roman Empire: before Anthemius was made emperor in the West in 467, he was... The hilly Armagnac region in the foothills of the Pyrenées, between the Adour and Garonne rivers is a historic comté of the Duchy of Gascony (Gascogne), established in 601 CE in the southwest of Aquitaine (now France). ...
William Count of Fezensac and Armagnac ?- 960
Bernard the Suspicious, First count privative of Armagnac 960- ?
Gerald I Trancaléon ? -1020
Bernard I Tumapaler 1020-1061
Gerald II 1061-1095
Arnauld-Bernard II (associated 1072 for about ten years)
Bernard III 1095-1110
Gerald III 1110-1160
Bernard IV 1160-1188
Gerald IV Trancaléon 1188-1215
Gerald V 1215-1219
Pierre-Gerald 1219-1241
Bernard V 1241-1245
Mascarose I (countess) 1245-1245
Arnauld II count of Lectoure and Lomagne 1245-1249
Henry II of Albret (king of Navarre, King of France as Henry IV of France) 1572-1589
Dukes (Vaudemont-Guisa): Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – June 12, 1418) was count of Armagnac, count of Charolais and constable of France. ... Henry IV (French: Henri IV) (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), called the Great (French: le Grand), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until 1610. ...
Gascony was part of the Roman province of Aquitania, into which the Basques, fleeing from the Visigoths in Spain, penetrated towards the end of the sixth C. During the period of Frankish rule, from 768, Vasconia was a separate duchy, and with the decline of Carolingian power it became increasingly independent.
Along with the County of Armagnac, and thanks to the valor of the Armagnacs, Gascony controlled almost the whole of France in the time of CountBernard VII (1391-1418).
Later the Armagnacs were employed by King Charles VII as mercenaries against the Swedes, who inflicted a crushing defeat on them in a battle near Basle in 1444.
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