Europe · The early medieval west
County of Maine
drawn on the map AD 990–1055, 1066–1110, 1450–1481
Comté du Maine; capital Le Mans. A frontier county between Normandy, Anjou and Brittany, long fought over; it fell to the Angevins and into the Plantagenet empire, was conquered by Philip II Augustus (1204), and became a French royal apanage, often held jointly with Anjou, featuring in the Hundred Years' War settlements.
- Shown on the map
- AD 990–1055, 1066–1110, 1450–1481 (3 periods)
- Peak area
- 14k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté du Maine; capital Le Mans. A frontier county between Normandy, Anjou and Brittany, long fought over; it fell to the Angevins and into the Plantagenet empire, was conquered by Philip II Augustus (1204), and became a French royal apanage, often held jointly with Anjou, featuring in the Hundred Years' War settlements.
Common questions
- What was the County of Maine?
- Comté du Maine; capital Le Mans. A frontier county between Normandy, Anjou and Brittany, long fought over; it fell to the Angevins and into the Plantagenet empire, was conquered by Philip II Augustus (1204), and became a French royal apanage, often held jointly with Anjou, featuring in the Hundred Years' War settlements.
- When is the County of Maine shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Maine AD 990–1055, 1066–1110, 1450–1481, 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 Maine?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Maine covered about 14,000 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 — Maine (province) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_(province)
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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