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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARMAGNAC, See also:duke of See also:Nemours (c. 1433-1477), was the son of See also:Bernard d'Armagnac, See also:count of Pardiac, and Eleanor of See also:Bourbon-La See also:Marche. As See also:comte de See also:Castres, he served under See also:Charles VII. in See also:Normandy in 1449 and 1450; and afterwards in See also:Guienne. On the See also:accession of See also:Louis XI. the See also:king loaded him with honours, married him to his See also:god-daughter, See also:Louise of See also:Anjou, and recognized his See also:title to the duchy of Nemours in 1462. Sent by Louis to pacify See also:Roussillon, Nemours See also:felt that he had been insufficiently rewarded for the rapid success of this expedition, and joined the See also:League of the Public Weal in 1465. He subsequently became reconciled with Louis, but soon resumed his intrigues. After twice pardoning him, the king's See also:patience became exhausted, and he besieged the duke's See also:chateau at Carlat and took him prisoner. Nemours was treated with the utmost rigour, being shut up in a cage; and was finally condemned to See also:death by the See also:parlement and beheaded on the 4th of See also:August 1477. See B. de Mandrot, Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de Nemours (See also:Paris, 189o).

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