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Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac

c. 1360–1418 · 14th century

Bernard VII was count of Armagnac from 1391 and the leader of the Armagnac faction in the French civil war against the Burgundians. His daughter married Charles, Duke of Orléans, whose father had been murdered on the orders of John the Fearless, and Bernard became constable of France in 1415, controlling Paris and the government of the insane Charles VI. When the Burgundians took Paris in 1418 he was killed by the mob.

Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
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County of Armagnac

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