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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

County of Périgord

drawn on the map 1206–1362, 1385–1401, 1440–1481

Comté de Périgord; Occitan Perigòrd; capital Périgueux. A culturally Occitan county held by the House of Talleyrand-Périgord under Aquitaine/English suzerainty, contested during the Hundred Years' War and confiscated and absorbed by the French crown at the end of the 14th century, later held by the houses of Orléans and Albret.

Shown on the map
1206–1362, 1385–1401, 1440–1481 (3 periods)
Peak area
18k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Comté de Périgord; Occitan Perigòrd; capital Périgueux. A culturally Occitan county held by the House of Talleyrand-Périgord under Aquitaine/English suzerainty, contested during the Hundred Years' War and confiscated and absorbed by the French crown at the end of the 14th century, later held by the houses of Orléans and Albret.

Common questions

What was the County of Périgord?
Comté de Périgord; Occitan Perigòrd; capital Périgueux. A culturally Occitan county held by the House of Talleyrand-Périgord under Aquitaine/English suzerainty, contested during the Hundred Years' War and confiscated and absorbed by the French crown at the end of the 14th century, later held by the houses of Orléans and Albret.
When is the County of Périgord shown on the map?
The border data draws the County of Périgord 1206–1362, 1385–1401, 1440–1481, 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 Périgord?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Périgord covered about 18,000 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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