Quercy

France, Aquitanian Basin, modern Midi-Pyrénées region; covering approximately the modern departments of Lot and Tarn-et-Garonne; bounded to the north by Limousin, the west by Périgord and Agenais, the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and to the east by Rouergue and Auvergne; limestone plateaux and deep valleys; upper Quercy extends northwards from the diocesan city of Cahors as far as Souillac, Rocamadour, Martel, Bretenoux and Castelnau; lower Quercy (ceded to the English by the 1259 treaty of Paris) to the south as far as Moissac and Montauban. Held by the English from 1360 (treaty of Brétigny) until late 1369.

Bibliographic References:

Olivier Guyotjeannin, Atlas de l’histoire de France, IXe-XVe siècle, Editions Autrement (Paris, 2005), p. 61; Anne Curry, The Hundred Years War, Macmillan (Houndmills, 1993), p. ix and pp. 70 and 75; Jonathan Sumption, Trial by Fire. The Hundred Years War II, Faber and Faber (London, 1999), pp. 85 and 581; idem, Divided Houses. The Hundred Years War III, Faber and Faber (London, 2009), pp. 23 and 209.

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