Gerald V d'Armagnac (died 1219),
Count of Armagnac
The following is a list of rulers of the County of Armagnac:
House d'Armagnac, House of Armagnac
*William of Fesenzac, William Count of Fézensac and Armagnac ?–960
*Bernard the Suspicious, first count privative of Armagnac 960–?
*Gerald ...
and
Fézensac from 1215 to 1219, was the son of
Bernard d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fézensaguet and Geralda of
Foix
Foix ( , ; ; ) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the prefecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of southwestern France ...
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[''Bulletin de la Section de géographie'', Vol.15, Ed. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (Imprimerie Nationale, 1900), 128.]
In 1182, his great-uncle the Count Bernard IV of Armagnac, made Gerald's father, Bernard, heir in case he died without children. But Gerald IV (Trancaléon) was born in the years that followed and it was not until 1215 that Gerald IV died childless, and Gerald V became Count of Armagnac and Fézensac.
On 8 June 1215, to avoid the fate of Count
Raymond VI of Toulouse
Raymond VI (; 27 October 1156 – 2 August 1222) was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil (as Raymond IV) from 1173 to 1190.
Early life
Raymond was born at Saint-Gilles, Gard, the son of ...
, he acknowledged
Simon de Montfort as overlord. In 1217, Count Raymond VI rebelled against Simon de Montfort. Simon called Gerald for help and their troops laid siege to the city and conquered the surrounding country, and Isle-Jourdain was given to Gerald. Simon was killed during the
Siege of Toulouse.
Marriage and children
* Peter Gerard († 1241), Count of Armagnac and Fézensac
* Bernard V († 1245), Count of Armagnac and Fézensac after his brother
*
Mascarose I († 1249), Countess of Armagnac and Fézensac, married Arnaud Odon († 1256), Viscount Lomagne.
Confusion surrounding numbering
Some historians and genealogists, including the famous
Pere Anselme de Sainte-Marie, confuse him with Gerald IV. It is for this reason that his nephew who became Earl Gerald of Lomagne is sometimes numbered Gerald V instead of VI.
See also
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House of Armagnac
The House of Armagnac is a French noble house established in 961 by Bernard I, Count of Armagnac. It achieved its greatest importance in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The House of Armagnac, at the end of the thirteenth century, was not y ...
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1219 deaths
Counts of France
Year of birth unknown