Polity · 768 CE – 1065 CE
Duchy of Gascony
- Peak recorded area
- 56,472 km²
- 778 CE
- Rulers on record
- 17
- from 745 CE
Overview
The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia was an ethnic Basque duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the modern region of Gascony. The Duchy of Gascony, then known as Vasconia, was originally a Frankish march formed to hold sway over the Basques.
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Territory
13 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
17 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Waifer of AquitaineDuke of Gascony745 CE – 768 CE
- Hunold II of AquitaineDuke of Gascony768 CE – 769 CE
- Lupo II of GasconyDuke of Gascony769 CE – 778 CE
- Sancho I of GasconyDuke of Gascony800 CE – 812 CE
- Seguin I of GasconyDuke of Gascony812 CE – 816 CE
- García I Jiménez of GasconyDuke of Gascony816 CE – 818 CE
- Lupo III Centule of GasconyDuke of Gascony818 CE – 819 CE
- Aznar Sánchez of GasconyDuke of Gascony820 CE – 836 CE
- Sancho II Sánchez of GasconyDuke of Gascony848 CE – 855 CE
- García II Sánchez of GasconyDuke of Gascony887 CE – 920 CE
- Sancho IV Garcés of GasconyDuke of Gascony920 CE – 950 CE
- Sancho V Sánchez of GasconyDuke of Gascony950 CE – 961 CE
- William II Sánchez of GasconyDuke of Gascony961 CE – 966 CE
- Bernard I William of GasconyDuke of Gascony997 CE – 1009 CE
- Sancho VI William of GasconyDuke of Gascony1009 CE – 1032 CE
- Odo of GasconyDuke of Gascony1032 CE – 1039 CE
- Bernard II TumapalerDuke of Gascony1039 CE – 1052 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Gascon
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Duchy of Gascony is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.