Europe · High and late Middle Ages
County of Artois
drawn on the map 1241–1332
Comté d'Artois; capital Arras. Carved out of Flanders and attached to the French crown as an apanage, notably granted to Robert of Artois (brother of St Louis) in the 13th century.
- Shown on the map
- 1241–1332
- Peak area
- 8k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté d'Artois; capital Arras. Carved out of Flanders and attached to the French crown as an apanage, notably granted to Robert of Artois (brother of St Louis) in the 13th century. It passed to the counts of Flanders and then, with the Burgundian inheritance of 1384, to the dukes of Burgundy; after 1477 a Habsburg possession, progressively conquered by France in the 17th century (definitively French by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, 1659). A textile region tied to the Flemish economy.
Common questions
- What was the County of Artois?
- Comté d'Artois; capital Arras. Carved out of Flanders and attached to the French crown as an apanage, notably granted to Robert of Artois (brother of St Louis) in the 13th century.
- When is the County of Artois shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Artois 1241–1332. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the County of Artois?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Artois covered about 8,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — County of Artois en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Artois
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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