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unusual facts about John III, Count of Armagnac


Peter of Ancarano

The dispensation was granted by John XXIII, against quite recent precedent (the 1392 case of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac who wished to marry the widow of his late brother John III, Count of Armagnac, and was refused by Pope Clement VII); and proceeded on the basis of an opinion of Peter of Ancarano (influenced by Andrea).


Bundschuh movement

Under this flag, peasants and city dwellers had defeated the troops of the French count of Armagnac along the upper Rhine in 1439, 1443 and 1444.

Chevalier de Lorraine

His oldest brother, Louis, was Count of Armagnac and husband of Catherine de Neufville, the youngest daughter of Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, governor of a young Louis XIV.

Counts of Blois

Charles de Blois, son of Guy I, Count of Blois, married Joan of Penthievre, the heiress of John III, Duke of Brittany; together, they became principal protagonists in the War of the Breton Succession.

Enno III, Count of East Frisia

# Sabina Catherine (11 August 1582 – 31 May 1618), married on 4 March 1601 to her uncle Count John III of East Frisia (1566 – 29 September 1625)

Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg

Ernst Christoph was the fourth of the eleven children of John III and his wife, Sabina Catherine.

Gérald V d'Armagnac

Gerald V d'Armagnac (died 1219), Count of Armagnac and Fézensac from 1215 to 1219, was the son of Bernard d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fézensaguet and Geralda of Foix.

Hugh II of Chalon-Arlay

He died without issue and so was succeeded by his nephew John III (son of Hugh II's brother Louis I of Chalon).

John III, Count of Holstein-Plön

However by 1332 he lost Scania which rebelled against the German rule submitting to the Swedish king.

John III, Marquis of Namur

He succeeded his elder brother William II as Marquis of Namur, when William died without children in 1418.

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

Salvator Fabris

According to this account, Sigismund intended to assassinate his uncle Charles, during a banquet at Uppsala on February 12, following the royal funeral of John III on 1 February.

Tingsted

In 1329, King Christopher II concluded an agreement with Marsk Ludvig Eberstein, head of the armed forces, after his surrender at Hammershus and in 1329 made peace with Count Johann of Holstein.

Walburgis, Countess of Rietberg

: married on 4 March 1601 her uncle Count John III of East Frisia (born: 1566 – died: 29 September 1625)


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