Jean I, Count D'Armagnac

Jean I, Count of Armagnac

In September 1346, following the French defeat at the Battle of Crécy and the beginning of the English Siege of Calais, Armagnac was appointed royal lieutenant in the south-west. However due to the overall worsening French situation he was left with few troops and little money. He was therefore unable to stop Lancaster neither from consolidating English gains in the south nor from launching a major raid into Poitou. (Wikipedia)


Axioms

• Count of Armagnac
• Castle in the fortress of Auch
• Fiefdom in Quercy
• Fiefdom of Rouergue
• Fiefdom of Gerivan
• Experience field commander
• Royal Lieutenant of South-West France
• underfunded by the King of France