Bernard II (Armagnac)

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Bernard II , called Tumapaler († after 1064) was Count of Armagnac from 1020 to 1061. He is the son of Géraud I. Tranacléon ( Tranchelion ) and Adelais of Aquitaine, a daughter of William V , Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou , and his second wife Prisca (Brisque), heiress of Gascony .

In 1040 he himself (also as Bernard II) became Duke of Gascony . In 1052 he was defeated by Guido-Gottfried of Aquitaine, Count of Bordeaux and Agen (later Duke William VIII ) in the Battle of La Castelle (between Cazères and Grenade-sur-l'Adour ), which forced him to exercise his rights to the Gascony for sale.

With the bishop of Auch , a partisan of the Duke of Aquitaine, he fought for control of the region. In 1061 he passed his county on to his son Géraud II and retired to a monastery. The year of his death is unknown, proposed dates range from 1064 to 1090.

In 1035 he married Ermengarde, the mother of his children: