Artois
The County of Artois, centred on Arras, was a French fief bordering Flanders. In 1337 Joan III of the Capetian house, wife of Odo IV of Burgundy, ruled it.
Artois passed to Flanders and then to Philip the Bold of Burgundy in 1384. After Charles the Bold died at Nancy in 1477, Louis XI occupied the county; the Treaty of Senlis gave it to the Habsburgs in 1493. Louis XIII conquered Artois in 1640, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees confirmed it to France in 1659.
Characters
- Amicie de Courtenay
- Blanche of Brittany
- Gerard de Dainville
- Mahaut of Artois
- Philip of Artois
- Robert I, Count of Artois
- Robert II, Count of Artois