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7 eras · 1152–2026 · 4 places

Guyenne - Bordeaux, Périgord, Agenais and Quercy

Bordeaux, Périgueux, Agen, Cahors, Bergerac, Libourne. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1152–1360 Duchy of Guyenne - Plantagenet kings of England as dukes no registers survive

Guyenne and Gascony formed the Duchy of Aquitaine, which came under English kings when Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry II. The Treaty of Paris of 1259 confined Guyenne to narrower limits, Edward I received the Agenais in 1279, and the French crown confiscated the duchy in 1296 and 1324.
1360–1369 Guyenne, Périgord, Agenais and Quercy under the Treaty of Brétigny no registers survive

The treaty gave Edward III full sovereignty over Guyenne, Gascony, the Agenais, Périgord, Quercy and Rouergue, among other lands, and was finalised as the Treaty of Calais on 24 October 1360.
1369–1453 English Guyenne reduced to the Bordeaux area no registers survive

Charles V declared war again in 1369 and by 1376-77 English forces had been pushed back into the area around Bordeaux. The French won at Castillon on 17 July 1453 and retook Bordeaux on 19 October 1453, ending about three centuries of Plantagenet rule in Gascony; Charles VII's conquest of the province is also dated 1451.
1453–1790 Kingdom of France - Province of Guyenne, governed with Gascony from Bordeaux Archives départementales de la Gironde · Archives de Bordeaux Métropole · Archives départementales de la Dordogne · Archives départementales du Lot · Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Louis XI gave Guyenne to his brother Charles, Duke of Berry, in 1469 and it returned to the royal domain when Charles died in 1472. From the 17th century Guyenne was governed together with Gascony, with its capital at Bordeaux, until the end of the Ancien Régime.
1790–1940 France - Gironde, Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Lot Archives départementales de la Gironde · Archives de Bordeaux Métropole · Archives départementales de la Dordogne · Archives départementales du Lot · Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The departments formed from Guyenne included Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Lot, Aveyron and most of Tarn-et-Garonne. Civil registration passed to the municipalities by the decree of 20 September 1792.
1940–1945 German-occupied France - the demarcation line Archives départementales de la Gironde · Archives de Bordeaux Métropole · Archives départementales de la Dordogne · Archives départementales du Lot · Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The line created by the armistice of 22 June 1940 crossed Gironde and Dordogne and passed Langon, so the department was split between the occupied and free zones. Crossing required an Ausweis or Passierschein, and the Free Zone was occupied on 11 November 1942.
1945–2026 France - Aquitaine region, then Nouvelle-Aquitaine Archives départementales de la Gironde · Archives de Bordeaux Métropole · Archives départementales de la Dordogne · Archives départementales du Lot · Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Aquitaine merged with Poitou-Charentes and Limousin on 1 January 2016 to form Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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