Small territory in historical Gascony , southwestern France.
A portion was part of the Roman province of Aquitania (see Aquitaine ). From с 960 it was the separate countship of Armagnac, and it grew to occupy a buffer zone between lands controlled by the French kings (Toulouse) and those controlled by the English ( Guyenne ). It led the resistance to the English king Henry V 's invasion of France but suffered a setback at the Battle of Agincourt . It was first annexed to France in 1497, became a countship again, but finally, by descent through the rulers of Navarra, returned to the French crown in 1607. Again a countship from 1645, it was dissolved in 1789. The region produces the famous Armagnac brandy.