Bernard d'Armagnac, Count of Pardiac
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Bernard d'Armagnac, Count of Pardiac (died 1462) was a younger son of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac[1] and Bonne of Berry.
Bernard fought at the Battle of Patay in 1429. That year he married Eleanor of Bourbon-La Marche, daughter and ultimately heir of James II, Count of La Marche.[2] Count James was the consort of Queen Joanna II of Naples.[3] Bernard served as lieutenant-general in La Marche and governor of Limousin in 1441, and later as lieutenant-general of Languedoc and Roussillon in 1461.
Bernard was the father of:
- Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours[2]
- John d'Armagnac (1440-1493)
References
[edit]- ^ de Wavrin 2012, p. 220.
- ^ a b Potter 1995, p. 376.
- ^ Woodacre 2013, p. 91.
Sources
[edit]- Potter, David (1995). Keen, Maurice (ed.). A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. Macmillan.
- de Wavrin, Jean (2012). Hardy, William; Hardy, Edward L.C.P. (eds.). Recueil Des Chroniques Et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, À Present Nommé Engleterre. Vol. 4: From A.D. 1431 to A.D. 1477. Cambridge University Press.
- Woodacre, Elena (2013). The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512. Palgrave Macmillan.
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