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{{Short description|French noble (1433–1477)}}
[[File:Français_458,_fol._39v,_Jacques_d'Armagnac_en_prière_à_la_messe.jpg|alt=miniature painting of Jacques d'Armagnac praying at mass|thumb|Jacques d'Armagnac praying at mass, [[Miniature (illuminated manuscript)|illumination]] on [[parchment]].]]
'''Jacques d'Armagnac''' ({{circa|1433}}{{snd}}4 August 1477), [[duke of Nemours]], was a 15th-century French nobleman and military leader. He served under [[Charles VII of France|King Charles VII of France]] in [[Normandy]] and [[Guyenne|Guienne]], and was awarded honours by [[Louis XI]]. He also held the title of [[Count of Castres]]. He was the son of [[Bernard d'Armagnac, Count of Pardiac|Count Bernard d’Armagnac]] and Éléonore de Bourbon-La Marche.{{sfn|Potter|1995|p=376}}

As the [[List of Counts of Castres|Count of Castres]], Jacques served under [[Charles VII of France]] in [[Normandy]] in 1449 and 1450, and afterwards in [[Guienne]]. [[Louis XI of France|Louis XI]] awarded him with honours. In 1462, Jacques succeeded his father, and Louis XI married him to his god-daughter, Louise of Anjou,{{sfn|de Carvalho|2021|p=205}} daughter of [[Charles of Le Maine]]. Louis XI also recognized his title to the [[Duc de Nemours|Duchy of Nemours]],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} which he had disputed with the [[King of Navarre]].{{citation needed|date=August 2010}}

Sent by Louis to pacify [[Roussillon]], Nemours felt that he had been insufficiently rewarded for the rapid success of this expedition, and joined the [[League of the Public Weal]] in 1465.{{sfn|de Carvalho|2021|p=192}} Subsequently, he reconciled with Louis, but soon resumed his intrigues. After twice pardoning him, the king's patience became exhausted, and he besieged the duke's [[chateau]] at [[Carlat]] and imprisoned him. Nemours was treated with the utmost rigour, being shut up in a cage. He was finally condemned to death and beheaded, 4 Aug 1477.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Jacques and Louise had:
* Jacques (d. young)
* [[Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours]] (1467–1500)
* [[Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours]] (1500–1503)
* Marguerite d'Armagnac, Duchess of Nemours (d. 1503), married Peter de Rohan (d.1514)
* Catherine d'Armagnac (d. 1487), married [[John II, Duke of Bourbon]] in 1484{{sfn|de Carvalho|2021|p=205}}
* Charlotte d'Armagnac, Duchess of Nemours (d. 1504), married Charles de Rohan (d.1504)

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France: The Notebooks of S. Belle |first=Helena Avelar |last=de Carvalho |publisher=Brill |year=2021 }}
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Nemours, Lords and Dukes of|display=Nemours, Lords and Dukes of ''s.v.'' James of Armagnac|volume=19|page=370}}
*{{cite book |title=A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation State |first=David |last=Potter |editor-first=Maurice |editor-last=Keen |publisher=Macmillan |year=1995 }}

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{{s-ttl| title  = [[Duke of Nemours]]<br>[[List of Counts of Castres|Count of Castres]], [[Count of La Marche|La Marche]] and [[Count of Pardiac|Pardiac]]
       | years  = 1462–1477 }}
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{{s-bef| before = [[Charles of Le Maine]] }}
{{s-ttl| title  = [[Count of Beaufort-en-Champagne]]
       | with   = Louise of Anjou
       | years  = 1462–1477 }}
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