Guyenne , also spelled Guienne , former southwestern France Region merged with the Gascony in the last centuries before French Revolution in the gouvernement from Guyenne and Gascogne (Guyenne et Gascogne). The Guyenne region corresponds to modern Department Gironde and most Departments Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Lot and Aveyron. The region was under English control for much of the later European Middle Ages.
From Roman times to the Middle Ages, the Guyenne region was simply part of the region Aquitaine ( see there ), whose name Guyenne is a corruption. Historically, the name Guyenne was first identified by the Treaty of Paris (1259) between Louis IX. France and Henry III. From England. Through this treaty, Louis IX. Henry III As his vassals for Guyenne and also for Gascony, which the English had previously held. (12th century England had the marriage Henry II. With Eleanor of Aquitaine both Aquitaine and Gascony preserved .) Guyenne was retaken from the French earlier this year Hundred Years War , but the Treaty of Brétigny by 1360 restored him to the English with all of ancient Aquitaine. In the later stages of the Hundred Years' War, France reconquered all of these territories. The English's last attempt to retake the territory was recorded in the Battle of Castillon (1453) rejected.
Ludwig XI . Gave the Duchy of Guyenne to his brother Charles de France , Duke of Berry , in 1469, but after his death in 1472 it was reunited with the French crown. Guyenne was the scene of fierce fighting during the Wars of Religion in the 16th century and during the Fronde in the 17th century.