County of Bigorre

The county of Bigorre is made up at the beginning of the 9th century by the duke of Gascogne Loup Centule for his/her son Donat Loup († v. 820), who marries a princess of Aquitaine, Faquilène, which undoubtedly brings most of her grounds to him.

Presentation

See also: List of the counts de Bigorre

The principality, whose capital is Tarbes, is then considerable, but it is reduced by generosities of the count Loup Donat († v. 910), which gives to his/her son junior the Vicomté by Lavedan, then by that of his/her son the count Daton II Wolf († v. 930), which constitutes for its sons the Comté of Aure, the Vicomté of Aster and the seigniory of Montaner.

The county of Bigorre which remains with elder, Raymond Dat († v. 947), passes successively to the 11th century in the house of Foix, then in that of Béarn, at the 12th century in that of Marsan, then in that of Comminge S, and at the 13th century in that of Montfort.

Bigorre is then the object of a successional quarrel: Pétronille de Comminges, heiress of Bigorre by her mother, was married with Guy de Montfort, wire of Simon IV of Montfort, count de Leicester. This one claims with the heritage of his/her brother Guy and Pétronille entrusted the guard to him of has Bigorre during the minority of its grandson Esquivaut. The house of Montfort thus divides with dead of Pétronille between the partisans of Esquivaut, and those of the king de Navarre Thibaut II.

Esquivaut carries it, but with its death in 1283 the king of England assumes the guard of the county as a Suzerain. The sister of Esquivaut, Loré, married to Raymond VI of Turenne, then makes a lawsuit whose main result is that the king of France sequesters the county and allots it to its wife, the queen Jeanne de Navarre, heiress of Thibaut II. Jeanne gives Bigorre to her third wire, the future Charles IV, which links it with the royal field with its advent in 1322.

Data a time with the count d' Armagnac Jean I {{er}} Bigorre is yielded by the king of France to Edouard III by the Traité of Brétigny.

It is reconquered by Charles V between 1369 and 1373. Then coveted by the counts de Foix and of Armagnac, it definitively passes to the count de Foix in 1425, Jean II of Armagnac having exchanged its rights with the king against the Rouergue.

See too

  • List of the counts de Bigorre
  • Bigorre

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