Amanieu VI d'Albret

Coat of arms of the early lords of Albret.

Amanieu VI (? — after April 1272) was a French nobleman, the Lord of Albret (French: Seigneur d’Albret). The lordship (seigneurie) of Albret, in the Landes, gave its name to one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the Middle Ages. One of Amanieu’s descendants became king of Navarre; a later descendant was Henry IV, king of France.[1]

Amanieu’s reign was dominated by conflict over the English kings’ control of Gascony. His father, also named Amanieu, was one of the leaders of the revolt against English rule.[2] After his father's death in 1255, Amanieu surrendered Milhau and its surrounding region to Prince Edward,[3] newly arrived to assert English control over the province.[4] His son, Amanieu VII, became a staunch ally of the English and was a member of the Curia Regis during the reigns of both Edward I and Edward II of England.

  1. ^ Prinet 1911.
  2. ^ March, Frank Burr (1912). English rule in Gascony, 1199-1259 with Special Reference to the Towns. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Historical Studies. p. 129.
  3. ^ Casarissa, Diego de Mora y (1855). Los héroes y las maravillas del mundo: Dios, la tierra y los hombres. Anales del mundo desde los tiempos biblicos hasta nuestros dias [The heroes and the wonders of the world: God, the earth and men. Annals of the world from biblical times to our days]. Vol. 4. Libreria de J. Perez. p. 367 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1869). Syllabus (in English) of the Documents Relating to England and Other Kingdoms: 1066-1377. Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 50–52 – via Google Books.