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The time of Marguerite Moncade (around 1240-1318), daughter and heiress of Viscount Béarn Gaston VII, died in 1290, married to Count Roger-Bernard III of Foix, and his daughter-in-law, the Jeanne Jeanne d’Artois (1283-around 1351), wife of Gaston I of Foix-Bearn, was for the southern seigneuries most troubled. The multiple conflicts which crystallized then, and for several decades, took the aspect of struggles for the inheritance of Béarn and a simple but fierce dynastic discord between Foix and Armagnac, true small "war of one hundred years" regional, regulated by the peace of kings. They could also appear as dissensions linked to the holding of power by women of character, widows and regents, and therefore to oppositions of strong personalities, limited by the peace of sons. In reality, we are in the presence of antagonisms related to the construction of the modern state on a scale where it is expected little, that of counties and viscounts; the struggles developed then, and the peace that is hard to establish and always called into question, illuminate the processes of this construction, the forces involved, the interests at stake, the upheavals engendered, the transition from an old political and social order to a world new… |
