Gascony

Gascony was a duchy in southwestern France, originally a Frankish frontier territory established in 602 to control the Basques. It later became linked to Aquitaine and passed under the rule of the Plantagenet kings of England in 1152.

During the Hundred Years' War the French took Bordeaux in 1451, but John Talbot recovered it for England the following year with the townspeople's help. His defeat at Castillon in 1453 ended English rule in Gascony, which passed to the French crown.