ABSTRACT
Most of the great French nobles, it is true, ranged them selves against him. His uncles, the Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, were hostile. So were the Duke of Brittany and the Counts of Alençon and Armagnac. In 1410 Armagnac’s daughter was married to Charles, the eldest son of the mur dered Duke, a youth of nineteen. The Count was thus a man of weight in the counsels of the party, where his fiery and impetuous temper would in any case have given him a leading place. His importance was signalized by the fact that the opponents o f Burgundy soon became known as Armagnacs. The name is a useful reminder that the conflict was in great measure one between the south of France and the north, though this generalization is subject to many qualifications.
