Bernard II Tumapaler

Bernard II Tumapaler (c. 1020 – 1064/1090) succeeded his father Girard I Trancaleon as Count of Armagnac around 1020, and through his grandmother Prisca was recognised Duke of Gascony in 1039. His authority probably extended mainly over the south.

His uncle Guy Geoffrey disputed the duchy and defeated him at the Battle of La Castelle, after which Bernard surrendered Gascony for fifteen thousand sous in 1052. He also warred on the archbishop of Auch and abdicated Armagnac by 1061, possibly entering a monastery. In May 1063 he led a Gascon baronial revolt against Guy Geoffrey, now Duke of Aquitaine, and was again defeated; Gascony was firmly bound to Aquitaine.