Counts of Comminges

Coat of arms of the counts of Comminges

This is a list of counts of the County of Comminges.

Ancestors

Abbreviations: B.=Basque, S.=Spanish, L.=Latin, F.=French

• Lop II (a.k.a. B. Otsoa II, L. Lupus II, F. Loup II), was duke of Gascony around 770. The ancestors of Lop II are not known. It is often claimed that Lop II was related to dukes Odo of Aquitaine and Hunald of Aquitaine, some people even saying that Lop II was the son of Duke Odo of Aquitaine, but this is not true, as no medieval document telling us the family of Lop II has survived.
• Sans I Lop (a.k.a. B. Antso I Otsoa, S. Sancho I Lobo, F. Sanche I Loup) (son of previous), duke of Gascony (was already duke in 801, died ca. 812)
• Aznar I Sans (a.k.a. B. Aznar I Antso, S. Aznar I Sancho, F. Aznard I Sanche, and strangely also called Aznar I Galíndez in Spain) (son of previous), count of Vasconia Citerior (i.e. Gascony) (made count by King Pippin I of Aquitaine in 820-died in 836), founder of the county of Aragon (see his descendance at: List of Aragonese monarchs).

House of Comminges

• Gassia (a.k.a. S. and F. Garcia) (son of Aznar I Sans of Gascony), viscount of Comminges and Couserans (Oct. 833), count of Comminges (836-846). His brother seems to have been Galindo I Aznárez, count of Aragon.
• Aznar I (son of previous), count of Comminges (870-905)
• Lop I Aznar (a.k.a. L. Lupus I Asnarius, F. Loup I Aznard) (son of previous), count of Comminges
• Aznar II (a.k.a. L. Asnarius II) (son of previous), count of Comminges
• Roger I (son of previous), count of part of Comminges. His brother Arnaud of Comminges, count of the other part of Comminges and of Couserans, originates the Houses of Carcassonne and Foix (see: List of counts of Foix and List of counts of Carcassone).
• Arnaud I (son of previous), count of part of Comminges. His brother Pierre, bishop of Comminges is count of another part of Comminges, while his cousins Roger I of Carcassonne and Raimond of Comminges, sons of Arnaud of Comminges, are counts of other parts of Comminges.
• Roger II (son of previous), count of part of Comminges along with Roger I of Carcassone and Bernard of Comminges (son of Raimond of Comminges) counts of other parts of Comminges, then only count of Comminges (ca. 1012-ca. 1035).
• Arnaud II (son of previous), only count of Comminges (ca. 1058-ca. 1070)
• Roger III (son of previous), count of Comminges (ca. 1073-ca. 1100/1110)
• Bernard I (son of previous), count of Comminges (ca. 1114-ca. 1144)
• Bernard II (son of previous), count of Comminges (ca. 1144-ca. 1153)
• Bernard III (a.k.a. Dodon of Samatan) (brother of previous) (born ca. 1120 - died ca. 1176), count of Comminges (ca. 1153-1175), abdicated in 1175 and became a Knight Templar.
• Bernard IV (son of previous) (born ca. 1150 - died February 22, 1225), count of Comminges (1175-1225)
• Bernard V (son of previous) (born ca. 1195 - died November 30, 1241), count of Comminges (1225-1241)
• Bernard VI (son of previous) (born ca. 1224 - died after 1295), count of Comminges (1241-1295), abdicated in 1295.
• Bernard VII (son of previous) (born 1246 - died July 21, 1312), count of Comminges (1295-1312)
• Bernard VIII (son of previous) (born ca. 1285 - died 1336), count of Comminges (1312-1336)
• Jean I Posthumus (son of previous) (born 1336 - died 1339), count of Comminges (1336-1339)
• Pierre-Raimond I (brother of Bernard VIII) (born ca. 1295 - died April 16, 1341), count of Comminges (1339-1341)
• Pierre-Raimond II (son of previous) (born ca. 1325 - died October 19, 1375), count of Comminges (1341-1375)
• Marguerite (daughter of previous) (born ca. 1363 - died 1443), countess of Comminges (1375-1443), 3rd marriage in 1419 with Mathieu of Foix (younger brother of Count Jean I of Foix, see: List of counts of Foix) (born ? - died 1453), count of Comminges (1419-1453), count of Couserans. Co-ruler of Comminges with his wife, Mathieu of Foix inherited the county for the duration of his life only.
• At the death of Mathieu of Foix in 1453, Comminges was reunited to the French crown by King Charles VII of France.

House of Lescun

In 1462, the new king of France Louis XI detached the county of Comminges from the royal domain and gave it to his friend:

• Jean de Lescun (illegitimate son of Arnaud-Guillaume de Lescun, bishop of Aire, and of Anne or Annette of Armagnac-Termes) (born ? - died 1472), known as the Bastard of Armagnac, Marshal of France, who became count of Comminges (1462-1472)

House of Aydie

At the death of Jean de Lescun in 1472, the county of Comminges passed to:

• Odet d'Aydie (husband of Marie de Lescun, heiress of Lescun as daughter of Mathieu de Lescun, himself probably a cousin of Jean de Lescun) (born ca. 1425 - died 1498), Constable of France (supreme commander of the French army) and close advisor of Louis XI, count of Comminges (1472-1498)
• In 1498, at the death of Odet d'Aydie, who did not have a son, King Louis XII of France definitely reunited the county of Comminges to the French crown. The descendants of Odet d'Aydie's daughter continued to carry the title of Count of Comminges until the French Revolution, but they were no more the rulers of an autonomous fief.

External links

• Counts of Comminges. Genealogy