Bernard de Ventadour

Bernard de Ventadour (c. 1293–c. 1384) succeeded his father Eble VIII as viscount of Ventadour in 1329 and became count in 1350. From 1339 he served in Philip VI's wars under the Duke of Normandy and the Count of Armagnac, and in 1346 obtained the châtellenies of Croc and Saint-Agnan for a small payment.

That year the countess Joan of Dreux died aged nine months, and he seized Montpensier and Aigueperse; the king recognised him as heir for ten thousand florins. From 1355, under John II, he sat on the royal council at a yearly salary of two thousand livres.

In 1382, with the consent of his son Robert, he sold Montpensier to the king's son John, Duke of Berry.