Gascony under English rule
Examines the special relationship between English rulers and Gascon towns, focusing on administrative, political, and socio-economic life.
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For 300 years Gascony was connected with the crown of England. In 1152 the marriage of Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, to the young Henry Plantagenet — shortly to become King of the English — brought to him vast possessions in South-western France, of which Gascony was a part; a part which, through many vicissitudes, was not to be completely lost to the English till the final conquest of Bordeaux by the French King in 1453.
