County of Rodez

The county of Rodez was a fiefdom within the county of Rouergue in what is now the Aveyron department ; their capital was Rodez .

It was formed when Raimund von Saint-Gilles , Count of Rouergue, set out on the crusade and before Richard, a son of the Vice-Count of Millau , ruled over the lower town of Rodez, called le Bourg (in contrast to the Cité , the upper town, which owned by the bishop), and made some castles in the surrounding area. From this decision, the County of Rodez developed very quickly.

Count of Rodez

House Millau

• Richard von Millau
• Hugo I (1090–1159), his son, ∞ Ermengarde de Creyssels
• Hugo II (1135–1208), his son, ∞ Bertrande d'Amalon
• Heinrich I (Algayette de Scorailles), his son, ∞ Ermengarde de Creyssels
• Hugo IV (* 1212), his son
• Heinrich II. (1236–1304), his son, ∞ Mascarose de Comminges ( House Comminges )
• Cécile († 1313), his daughter, ∞ Bernard VI. Count of Armagnac ( House of Lomagne )

House Lomagne

• Jean I. le Bon (the Good) , whose son, Count of Armagnac and Rodez, ( 1311 - 1373 ).
• Jean II , called le Gras (the fat one) or le Bossu (the hunchback), Count of Armagnac and Rodez, († 1384 ).
• Jean III , Count of Armagnac and Rodez, († 1391 ).
• Bernard VII , Count of Armagnac and Rodez, Count of Charolais and Connétable of France , (around 1360 - 1418 ).
• . Jean IV , Count of Armagnac and Rodez, ( 1396 - 1450 ).
• Jean V. , Count of Armagnac and Rodez, Viscount of Lomagne , ( 1420 - 1473 ).
• Charles , Count of Armagnac and Rodez, ( 1425 - 1497 ).

House Valois-Alençon

• Charles IV , Duke of Alençon , Count of Le Perche , his great-nephew, † 1525
• Margaret of Navarre , his widow, † 1549

House Albret

• Henry II (Henri III. D'Albret) King of Navarre , descendant of Anne d'Armagnac, daughter of Connétable Bernard d'Armagnac, and his wife Margaret of Navarre ; they were crowned on July 16, 1535 in the cathedral of Rodez by the Archbishop Georges d'Armagnac.
• Jeanne d'Albret , their daughter, wife of Anton of Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme , Queen of Navarre and Countess of Rodez 1555.

Bourbons

• Henry of Bourbon , their son, and in 1572 their successors; King of Navarre as Henry III, King of France as Henry IV.

Heinrich united the county of Rodez as well as the other possessions of the Counts of Armagnac with the crown. The bishop of Rodez, who shared the parish of Rodez with the counts (the bishop was lord of the Cité , the upper town, the count lord of the Bourg , the lower town), took this opportunity to appoint himself Count of Rodez.