Périgord

France, south-west; historic region roughly equivalent to the modern Dordogne; part of the Three Dioceses and largely under English control from 1327; ceded to the English in 1360 under the terms of the treaty of Brétigny; lost to the French by 1370.

Bibliographic References:

Olivier Guyotjeannin, Atlas historique de France, IXe-XVe siècle (Paris: Editions Autrement, 2005), p. 83; Anne Curry, The Hundred Years War 1337–1453, Osprey Essential Histories (Botley: Osprey Publishing, 2002), pp. viii-ix and 75; Georges Duby, Atlas historique Duby (Paris: Larousse, 2007), pp. 128-9; Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, II. Trial by Fire (London: Faber and Faber, 1999), p. 586; idem, The Hundred Years War, III. Divided Houses (London: Faber and Faber, 2009), p. 685.

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