Viscounty of Béarn

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Was a medieval lordship in the far south of France. In 1347, the viscount declared Béarn an independent principality without feudal obligations.

Establishment

September 1347: In 1347, on the heels of English victory at the battle of Crécy (1346), the Viscount Gaston III Fébus paid homage to the king of France for his county of Foix, but refused to give homage for Béarn, which he claimed to hold from no one but God.

Chronology

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1. Hundred Years´ War

Were a series of conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France that spanned more than a century (with interruptions) from 1337 to 1453. The immediate causes of the conflicts were the English possessions in France which were at the same time vassals of the French Kingdom, as well as disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois. At the end of the war Englans lost all its possessions in France with the exception of the city of Calais.

1.1.Edwardian War

Was the first phase of the Hundred Years' War between France and England, lasting from 1337 to 1360.

1.1.1.Crécy campaign

Was an English military campaign in northern France during the Edwardian War.

Disestablishment

January 1480: In 1479, the Lord of Béarn, Francis Phoebus, inherited the Kingdom of Navarre, across the Pyrenees to the southwest. The two sovereign principalities remained in personal union until their extinction.