Lord of the Pyrenees : Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391

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Lord of the Pyrenees : Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391

Richard Vernier

Boydell Press, 2008

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Bibliography: p. [208]-211

Includes index

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Relates the colourful life of 'enlightened despot' Gaston III, count of Foix, an enigmatic and brilliant figure in a turbulent period. The reign of Gaston III, Count of Foix and self-proclaimed sovereign Lord of Bearn, stands out as one of the rare success stories of the `calamitous' fourteenth century. By playing a skilful game of shifting allegiances and timelydefiance, he avoided being drawn into the conflicts between his more powerful neighbours - France and English Aquitaine, Aragon and Castile -- thus sparing his domains the devastations of warfare. Best known as a patron of thearts, and the author of a celebrated Book of the Hunt, Febus - as he styled himself - also prefigures the eighteenth-century `enlightened despots' with his effort to centralize government, protect natural resources and promote enterprise. But a sequence of mysterious tragedies -- the abrupt dismissal of his wife, the slaying of his only legitimate son - reveal the dark side of the brilliant and enigmatic `Sun Prince of the Pyrenees'. RICHARD VERNIER is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University. He is the author of The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War.

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Inheritance Apprenticeship Trials and Tribulations Febus Revealed Challenges and Designs Governing Wisely Febus at Home Febus, the Author The Orthez Mystery Endgame Death, and the Spoils Appendix I: Bernard de Bearn, Count of Medinaceli Bibliography

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