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Duchy of Aquitaine. Map of France in 1154. The pink area in lower France under Eleanor of Aquitaine and her husband Henry II of England. The Duchy of Aquitaine (Occitan: Ducat d'Aquitània, IPA: [dyˈkad dakiˈtaɲɔ]; French: Duché d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyʃe dakitɛn]) was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central and southern areas ...
Duke of Aquitaine. The Duke of Aquitaine (Occitan: Duc d'Aquitània, French: Duc d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyk dakitɛn]) was the ruler of the medieval region of Aquitaine (not to be confused with modern-day Aquitaine) under the supremacy of Frankish, English, and later French kings. As successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom (418–721), Aquitania ...
A separate duchy is created in Gascony, probably out of Aquitaine's territory. This duchy of 'Vasconia' has at its core the former tribal Vascones people who continually exhibit a desire for autonomy. 612 - 631: The Visigoth kings Sisebut (612-621) and Suinthila (621-631) campaign against the Basques.
The development of ducal authority in tenth‐century Aquitaine was a major change in the region's political culture. The emergence of a regional, aristocratic polity was a shift from the Carolingian past, and historians have proffered several explanations for it. This article examines several models for the development of principalities: as the expressions, however compromised, of ethnic ...
- Fraser McNair
- 2020
Dec 15, 2014 · The combined duchy of Aquitaine/county of Poitou evolved into a major international power on the European political scene in the 11th century. This is demonstrated particularly by the marriage of Agnès de Poitou, sister of Guillaume VII Duke of Aquitaine, to Emperor Heinrich III in 1043, which represented a major boost of prestige for the duchy.
For Dhondt, William's duchy represented the Aquitanians having finally, although only partially, thrown off the Frankish yoke (Dhondt, 2018, 194–197). However, the presence of Aquitanian ‘nationalism’ as any kind of particular force in this period seems dubious. Historians of the Carolingian kingdom of Aquitaine have emphasised that Aquita-
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The duchy together with several other French fiefs became a part of the kings of England's possessions. They forced the French kings to give up their supremacy over Aquitaine 1360 during the Hundred Years War, but France reconquered it before the end of that war whereby Aquitaine became a part of the France's royal domain.
