Agenais
Sign in to saveAgenais (), or Agenois (), was an ancient region that became a county (Old French: conté or cunté) of France, south of Périgord.
Key facts
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- County of Agenois
- Former country.common_name
- Agenois
- Former country.flag_caption
- Map of Agenois within its 18th century limits with the current municipalities and departments.
- Former country.image_map
- Carte de l'Agenais.svg
- Former country.capital
- 20px Agen
- Former country.religion
- Catholicism
- Former country.government_type
- County
- Former country.legislature
- Parlement
- Former country.upper_house
- Parliament of Bordeaux
- Former country.empire
- Kingdom of France
- Former country.year_end
- 1791
- Former country.year_start
- 886
- Former country.image_map_alt
- Location of the county with modern departmental boundaries
- Former country.year_leader2
- 1718–1751
- Former country.leader2
- Charles de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac
- Former country.event_start
- Established
- Former country.event_end
- Disestablishment of the Provinces
- Former country.s1
- Lot-et-Garonne
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Key dates
- Inception
- 886
- Dissolved
- 1791
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- History
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Agenais (), or Agenois (), was an ancient region that became a county (Old French: conté or cunté) of France, south of Périgord.
==History== In ancient Gaul the region was the country of the Nitiobroges with Aginnum for their capital, which in the fourth century was the Civitas Agennensium, which was a part of Aquitania Secunda and which formed the diocese of Agen. From 833 to 848, all the land seems to have been ravaged by the Vikings. Having in general shared the fortunes of Aquitaine during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, Agenais from about 886 became an hereditary county in the part of the country now called Gascony (Vasconia). The first count of Agenais (''comte d'Agen'') was William I of Périgord (d. 920), son of Wulgrin I of Angoulême.