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ROUERGUE (Ruthenensis pages)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROUERGUE (Ruthenensis pages) , one of the old provinces of See also:France, was originally inhabited by the Rutheni. It was bounded on the N. by See also:Auvergne, on the S. and S.W. by See also:Languedoc, on the E. by Gevaudan and the See also:Cevennes and on the W. by See also:Quercy. It included (1) the See also:county of See also:Rodez, (2) Haute and Basse See also:Marche; and it was divided between the dioceses of Rodez and Vabres (See also:province d'Alby after this province had been separated from that of See also:Bourges in 1678). Administratively it formed first a senechaussee, dependent on Languedoc (See also:capital Villefranche, in the Basse Marche), and later it was attached to the military governments of See also:Guienne and See also:Gascony. It was then See also:part of the departments of See also:Aveyron and of Tarnet-See also:Garonne. The county of Rodez, after having been in the See also:possession of the houses of See also:Toulouse and Carlat, See also:fell in the 14th See also:century into that of See also:Armagnac. See also:Jean II. of Armagnac having served See also:Charles V. faithfully during his See also:wars with See also:England, received from him, in 1374, what were called the four " chdtellenies" with the " Commun de la paix," a tax which had been established there to organize resistance against foreigners. Jean V. of Armagnac was deprived of the county for See also:crime and See also:treason against See also:Louis XI., in 1469, but afterwards it was given back to Charles of Armagnac, who died without legitimate issue in 1496. Its possession was then disputed between See also:King See also:Francis I. and the See also:duke of See also:Alencon, who at last compromised (1519) ; the king ceded the county to his See also:sister See also:Marguerite d'See also:Angouleme, who took it as See also:dowry first to the duke of Alengon, and then to her second See also:husband See also:Henri d'See also:Albret, king of See also:Navarre. The county afterwards passed to Jeanne d'Albret, then to Henri IV., and was joined to the See also:crown lands in 1590.

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