GASTON FÉBUS (aka Count Gaston III ) STRONGMAN OF THE PYRENEES (1331 - 1391) Comte de Foix et Souverain Vicomte de Béarn, Vicomte de Marsan, de Gabardan, de Nébouzan, de Lautrec, et des Terres-Basses d'Albigeois, co-seigneur d'Andorre & Brother-in-law of Charles the Bad G. Cook © 2020 P.O. Box 240618 Douglas, ALASKA 99824 907-586-9719
[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS p. 1-------Table of Contents p. 3---------Maps & Illustrations p. 16-------Romantic Introduction p. 22-------Where is Foix? Béarn? p. 32-------The Childhood of Gaston Fébus p. 39-------The Early Reign of Gaston Fébus p. 42-------Count Gaston III’s Declaration of Sovereignty for Béarn p. 53-------The Fourteenth Century p. 72-------Medieval Warfare p. 83-------Religious Thought p. 92-------Feudalism p. 101-----Marriage p. 118-----Chivalry GASTON FÉBUS i © G. Cook 2020 p. 147-------A Synergy of Calamities p. 148-----Calamity #1: The 100 Years War p. 169-----Calamity #2: The Black Death p. 175-----Calamity #3: Instability of the Valois p. 201-----Calamity #4: Schism of the Roman Catholic Church p. 212-------The Banquet of Rouen: 1356 p. 214-------Fébus on Crusade in Lithuania: 1357-1358 p. 222-------The Harmonic Convergence of 1358 --#1 The Teutonic Crusade --#2 The Bourgeois Paris Revolt of Étienne Marcel --#3 The Peasant Rebellion of the Jacquerie --#4 The Romantic Rescue at Meaux p. 238-------Back Home in Foix-Béarn p. 250-------The Death of Little Gaston p. 261-------Fébus goes to the Happy Hunting Grounds p. 263-------Who inherited Foix-Béarn? p. 264-------BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED GASTON FÉBUS ii © G.