Advances in Historical Studies 2013. Vol.2, No.2, 81-93 Published Online June 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2013.22012 Les Châteaux de Landiras et de Montferrand and Their Seigneurial Families —Part One: Setting, Medieval History, and Genealogy Donald A. Bailey Department of History, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Email:
[email protected] Received March 25th, 2013; revised April 27th, 2013; accepted May 5th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Donald A. Bailey. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons At- tribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Apart from Arnaud Communay’s “Genealogical Essay”, as he himself noted (1889: v), the Montferrands of the Bordeaux region have been neglected.1 The present approach to their history initiated in research on the Château de Landiras, whose baronial family tended to heiresses until one of them married a Montfer- rand. So began a four-century association of the “first and second baronies of Guyenne”! This first part will describe the socio-geographical settings of the two branches, some of their medieval experiences, and then proceed to presenting the combined genealogies—a task not previously attempted. The second part will narrate their respective and blended subsequent histories. Keywords: Montferrand de Guyenne; Landiras; Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac; Bordeaux; Hundred Years’ War; French Revolution; Bertrand III; Pierre II; Lesparre; de Goth; de la Roque-Budos; Communay; Graves Wine Geographical Setting remain (Jouannet, 1837: I, 275; cited in Communay: lxxiv, n.