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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

County of Nevers

drawn on the map 1010–1271, 1285–1325, 1407–1520

Comté de Nevers; capital Nevers. A county of the upper Loire/Burgundian marches drawn into the Burgundian orbit; under the Valois dukes it was assigned to a cadet, Philip of Nevers, and his descendants.

Shown on the map
1010–1271, 1285–1325, 1407–1520 (3 periods)
Peak area
15k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Comté de Nevers; capital Nevers. A county of the upper Loire/Burgundian marches drawn into the Burgundian orbit; under the Valois dukes it was assigned to a cadet, Philip of Nevers, and his descendants. Later raised to a duchy and held by the Italian Gonzaga family (16th–17th centuries).

Common questions

What was the County of Nevers?
Comté de Nevers; capital Nevers. A county of the upper Loire/Burgundian marches drawn into the Burgundian orbit; under the Valois dukes it was assigned to a cadet, Philip of Nevers, and his descendants.
When is the County of Nevers shown on the map?
The border data draws the County of Nevers 1010–1271, 1285–1325, 1407–1520, 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 Nevers?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Nevers covered about 15,000 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:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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