County of Gaure
This county will be absorbed by the Comté of Armagnac.
The county of Gaure will pass under English sovereignty to the Traité of Brétigny, the May 8th 1360.
The Count of Gaure, Géraud de Cazaubon, one of the illustration of the Gascon Knighthood of the end of the XIIIe century. He was the founder of the current city of Fleurance in Gascogne (sources of the foreword of Maurice Border, aggregate of history, with the book: " Fors Honneur" , of Jacque Bancel, at Tarbes, Toulouse, 1948).
Extract of the beginning:
" In 1272, the County of Gaure formed a very small small island in the middle of the vast domains of Armagnac. Géraud V of Armagnac, seeing in this small county an easy prey, declared that the Château of Sempuy (one said at the time " Sompoy") was of its mobility. Without indicating on which bases it based such claims, it dispatched its hérault of weapons towards Géraud de Cazaubon, to claim the homage imperiously that the vassal one must to the suzerain.
The count de Gaure protests. He intends owe homage only to the only Duke of Toulouse, the King de France, heir to this title by the death of the Jehanne countess and to Alphonse, his uncle.
Cazaubon thus refuses proudly to subscribe to the injunctions of its powerful neighbor in front of whom: " It veul crumb genouiller". Such was the initial cause of a Guerre which was to be furious and without merci." (and which signed the end, fors honor, of lined territorial of the counts, and the county of Gaure)]
See too
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historical List of the French counties
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