Bigorre

The Bigorre is a historical province of France, which accounts for about three-quarters of the department of Hautes -Pyrénées today.

The main communities of Bigorre are: Tarbes, Lourdes, Bagneres -de- Bigorre, Vic -en- Bigorre, Rabastens -de- Bigorre.

History

The name of the landscape comes from the ancient Bigerrionen or Bigerriones ago, probably from Basque ibai - Gorri (river red, hence " Red River " or " Rotbach "), whose main town at the time of the Roman conquest of Gaul, near the present town of Tarbes, perhaps at Cieutat lay.

In the early 9th century created Loup Centulle, Duke of Gascony, for his son Donat Loup ( † about 820), who was married to the Princess of Aquitaine Faquilène, the county of Bigorre, where they no doubt the majority of the possession of her dowry contributed.

The property whose capital was Tarbes, was reduced by the generosity of Count Donat Loup ( † about 910), who gave the viscounty Lavedan his younger son, and Donat Loup II († 930 ), whose son, which in a sons of the county Aure built, for another the viscounty Aster and for a third the rule Montaner.

The part of the county of Bigorre, the eldest son, Ramon Donat ( † about 947), was, went in the 11th century by marriage to the counts of Foix over, then to the viscounts of Béarn, in the 12th century to the viscounts of Marsan, then to the Lords of Comminges and finally in the 13th century to the House of Montfort l'Amaury.

The Bigorre has now been object of a succession dispute: Pétronille de Comminges, heiress of Bigorre by her mother, married Guy of Montfort, the third son of Simon IV de Montfort, the leader of the Albigensian Crusade, and brother of Simon V. de Montfort, of the heritage Guidos claimed, and the Pétronille entrusted the supervision of Bigorre during the minority of her grandson Esquivaut. Upon the death Pétronilles the house Montfort divided into two parties: the trailer Esquivauts and the followers of the King Theobald II of Navarre.

Esquivaut could prevail, but after his death in 1283 the King of England took over sovereignty over the Bigorre. Esquivauts sister Loré that. Raymond VI de Turenne was married, went to court, with the result that the king of France, Philip IV, the county confiscated and his wife, Queen Joan I of Navarre and heir of Theobald II, handed. Johanna was the Bigorre to her third son on, the later King Charles IV of France, the Domaine royal added the county on his accession in 1322.

Given a time the Count Jean I of Armagnac, the French king, the country went to the English King Edward III in the Treaty of Brétigny. from.

Between 1360 and 1373 the Bigorre of Charles V of France was recaptured. As a result, raised both the Counts of Foix and the Count of Armagnac entitled to the Bigorre, until it was finally awarded in 1425 Foix, while Jean II resigned from Armagnac in its claims with the Rouergue.

From now on until the end of the 18th century, shares the fate of the county of Bigorre Foix.

In the creation of the department during the French Revolution sat Bertrand Barrere, MP for Tarbes, strongly committed to make the Bigorre Hautes -Pyrenées:

This insert explains the amazing geography of the department of Hautes -Pyrénées, which has two small enclaves in the neighboring department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques ( Béarn ).

Count of Bigorre

The descent of the Counts of Bigorre in the male line of the Merovingians to one common set of Dukes of Aquitaine is a fiction that was applied by the fake Charter of Alaon in the 17th century:

Chlothar II († 629/630 ) King of the Franks, ∞ Bertetrud II († 618)
Charibert II († 632), whose son, sub- king in Aquitaine, ∞ Gisela of Gascony
Boggis, whose son, ∞ Oda the Holy of Gascony
Eudo Duke of Aquitaine († 735 ), whose son, ∞ Waltrude
Hunoald Duke of Aquitaine († 774), whose son,
Waifar, Duke of Gascony, whose son, ∞ Adele of Gascony
Adalrich of Gascony, whose son
Centulle of Gascony, whose son
Loup Centulle, Duke of Gascony, whose son

Donat Loup, whose son, Count of Bigorre ( 815 - ) ∞ Faquilo ( about 820 - )
Loup I, whose son, Count of Bigorre ( about 845- about 910) ∞ NN of Rouergue (around 840 - )
Donat Loup II, whose son, Count of Bigorre ( about 860-930 ) ∞ Lupa de Navarra, illegitimate daughter of Sancho I Garcés, King of Navarre (House Jiménez )
Ramon Donat I., whose son, Count of Bigorre ( about 910 - ) ∞ Tachilène d' Astarac (around 920 - )
Arnaud, whose son, Count of Bigorre ( 945 - after 980 )
Garcia Loup, whose son, Count of Bigorre ( 965 - after 1030) ∞ Richarde d' Astarac ( 970 - )
Gersende, whose daughter, Countess of Bigorre (990-1003) ∞ Bernard Roger, Count of Foix (990-1037)
Beatrix I., whose daughter, Countess of Bigorre (1055-1095) ∞ Gaston Centulle V. Earl of Béarn
Centulle II, Count of Bigorre (1080-1130), whose son ∞ Aimée de Trencavel
Beatrix II, Countess of Bigorre (1104-1156), whose daughter, ∞ Pierre de Marsan, Viscount of Marsan
Centulle III. , Count of Bigorre, Viscount of Marsan (1130-1178), whose son ∞ Matelle des Baux
Stéphanie, Countess of Bigorre, whose daughter, ∞ Bernard IV, Count of Comminges
Pétronille, Countess of Comminges, Countess of Bigorre, Viscountess of Marsan (1186-1251), whose daughter ∞ Guy de Montfort
Alix de Montfort, Countess of Bigorre (1216-1255), whose daughter, ∞ Jourdain de Chabanais
Eschivat de Chabanais, Count of Bigorre (1255-1283), whose son
Laure de Chabanais († 1316 ), Countess of Bigorre ( 1283-1302 ), whose sister ∞ Raymond de Turenne Constance de Montcade († 1310), Countess of Bigorre counter ( 1283-1302 ), Viscountess of Marsan, granddaughter of Pétronille
French royal domain (1302-1425)

Gaston de Foix, Prince of Viana whose son, † 1470

Historical territory (France)
Geography (Midi- Pyrénées)
The Hautes -Pyrénées

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