Armagnac

France, south-west, modern Gascony; historic county between the Adour and Garonne rivers, roughly equivalent to the modern department of Gers; major towns: Auch, Aignan; ceded to the English crown in 1360 under the treaty of Brétigny; John I of Armagnac, appealed to Charles V in 1369 in protest against the harsh rule of Edward, prince of Aquitaine.

Bibliographic References:

Olivier Guyotjeannin, Atlas historique de France, IXe-XVe siècle (Paris: Editions Autrement, 2005), pp. 53, 57 and 83; Françoise Autrand, Jean de Berry. L’art et le pouvoir (Paris: Fayard, 2000), p. 102; Georges Duby, Atlas historique Duby (Paris: Larousse, 2007), pp. 120 and 128-31.

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