Europe · High and late Middle Ages
County of Auvergne
drawn on the map 1206–1351, 1363–1406, 1440–1501
Comté d'Auvergne; capital Clermont. A mountainous county of the Massif Central with a tangled history, splintering into the County of Auvergne, the Dauphiné d'Auvergne, and the royal Terre d'Auvergne.
- Shown on the map
- 1206–1351, 1363–1406, 1440–1501 (3 periods)
- Peak area
- 20k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté d'Auvergne; capital Clermont. A mountainous county of the Massif Central with a tangled history, splintering into the County of Auvergne, the Dauphiné d'Auvergne, and the royal Terre d'Auvergne. Nominally a dependency of the dukes of Aquitaine, it was progressively drawn under royal control from Philip II Augustus onward and passed through various houses (including, later, the Medici via Catherine de' Medici).
Common questions
- What was the County of Auvergne?
- Comté d'Auvergne; capital Clermont. A mountainous county of the Massif Central with a tangled history, splintering into the County of Auvergne, the Dauphiné d'Auvergne, and the royal Terre d'Auvergne.
- When is the County of Auvergne shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Auvergne 1206–1351, 1363–1406, 1440–1501, in 3 separate periods. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the County of Auvergne?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Auvergne covered about 20,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — County of Auvergne en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Auvergne
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