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The Lieutenant of the Duchy of Aquitaine was an officer charged with governing the
Duchy of Aquitaine on behalf of the
King of England . Unlike the
seneschalcy of Gascony , the lieutenancy was not a permanent office. Lieutenants were appointed in times of emergency, due either to an external threat or internal unrest. The lieutenant had quasi-viceregal authority and so was usually a man of high rank, usually English and often of the royal family.
Aquitaine, a grand
fief in southwestern
France , was a possession of the English crown from 1154, when the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony inherited the English throne, until it was finally conquered by the French at the end of the
Hundred Years' War (1453).
List of lieutenants
1248–1254
Simon de Montfort
[1]
1269–1270
Roger of Leybourne
[1]
1272
Thomas de Clare
[1]
1278
Otton de Grandson jointly with
Robert Burnel
[2]
1287–1288
William of Middleton , also seneschal
[2]
1289
Maurice VI de Craon
[3]
1293–1294
John de Saint-John
[1]
1294; 1310–1311
John of Brittany
[2]
1295–1296
Edmund of Lancaster , who died in 1296
[4]
1296–1297
Henry de Lacy , acting lieutenant from 1295
[5]
1298–1299
Gui Ferre
[2]
1299–1302
Barrau de Sescas jointly with
Pey-Arnaut de Vic
[2]
1302–1304; 1309–11
John Hastings , also seneschal
[1]
[2]
1312
John de Ferrers , also seneschal
[2]
1312–1313
Estèbe Ferréol , also seneschal
[2]
1324–1325
Edmund of Woodstock
[1]
1338–1341
Bernard Ezi II d'Albret jointly with (1)
Oliver Ingham (also seneschal) and then (2)
Hugues de Genève
[2]
1344
Richard FitzAlan jointly with
Henry of Grosmont
[6]
1345–1347; 1349 Henry of Grosmont, alone
[7]
1352–1355
Ralph Stafford
[1]
1355–1357
Edward the Black Prince , later Prince of Aquitaine (1362–72)
[1]
1360–1362
John Chandos
[2]
1370–1371
John of Gaunt , later Duke of Aquitaine (1390–1399)
[1]
1372
John Hastings
[8]
1378–1381
John Neville
[1]
1388–1389 John of Gaunt
[1]
1394–1398
Henry "Hotspur" Percy
[1]
1398
John Beaufort
[1]
1401–1403
Edward of Norwich
[1]
1412–1413
Thomas of Lancaster
[1]
1413
Thomas Beaufort
[9]
1439–1440
John Holland
[1]
1443
John Beaufort , did not act
[1]
1452–1453
John Talbot
[1]
1453
William Bonville
[2]
Notes
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"Seneschals and lieutenants of Gascony in the Oxford DNB" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2005.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/93334 .
ISBN
9780198614128 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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"Principal Office Holders in the Duchy" and
"King's Lieutenants in the Duchy (1278–1453)" , The Gascon Rolls Project (1317–1468) .
^ Michael Prestwich (1990). Edward I . Methuen London. pp. 305–6.
ISBN
0-413-63370-5 .
^ Vale, Malcolm. "St John, Sir John de".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/24499 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Hamilton, J. S. "Lacy, Henry de".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/15851 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1889).
"Fitzalan, Richard (1307?-1376)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Ormrod, W. M. "Henry of Lancaster".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/12960 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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Stephen, Leslie ;
Lee, Sidney , eds. (1891).
"Hastings, John (1347-1375)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1885).
"Beaufort, Thomas" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.