State · 900 – 1425

County of Bigorre

A state of 900 – 1425 — 525 years in Europe. The atlas records 11 things within it — people 11. Its line of rulers holds 22 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 525 years; 900 – 1425
Rulers: 22; the count of Bigorre
Within it: 11; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of count of Bigorre - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Loup Donat	870 – 910	40 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Dat Donat of Bigorre	910 – 940	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Raymond I Donatus of Bigorre	940 – 956	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Garcia Arnaud de Bigorre	956 – 1000	44 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild
Bernard-Roger of Foix	1000 – 1034	34 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	in-law
Garsende of Bigorre	1000 – 1038	38 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	spouse
Bernard II of Bigorre	1038 – 1077	39 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Raymond II of Bigorre	1077 – 1080	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Centule V, Viscount of Béarn	1080 – 1090	10 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Beatrice I of Bigorre	1080 – 1096	16 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	spouse
Bernard III of Bigorre	1090 – 1113	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Centule II of Bigorre	1114 – 1128	14 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Beatrice II of Bigorre	1128 – 1148	20 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Peter of Marsan	1128 – 1163	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	spouse
Centule III of Bigorre	1163 – 1178	15 years	ending not on record	child
Beatrice III of Bigorre	1178 – 1192	14 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Bernard IV of Comminges	1178 – 1216	38 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	spouse
Petronilla of Bigorre	1192 – 1251	59 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Alice of Montfort	1251 – 1255	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Martha, Viscountess of Marsan	1251 – 1272	21 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Eskivat de Chabanais	1255 – 1283	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Laura de Chabanais	1283 – 1307	24 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling

22 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 870 – 1307. Median reign 23.5 years. 8 of 21 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedBlason département fr Hautes-Pyrénées · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 9992 rows

Bernard-Roger of Foix · ruler · 980 – 1034
Raymond I Donatus of Bigorre · ruler · 929 – 956

1000 – 10993 rows

Beatrice I of Bigorre · ruler · 1064 – 1095
Bernard II of Bigorre · ruler · 1014 – 1077
Raymond II of Bigorre · ruler · 1062 – 1080

1100 – 11993 rows

Centule III of Bigorre · ruler · 1101 – 1178
Petronilla of Bigorre · ruler · 1184 – 1251
Beatrice II of Bigorre · ruler · 1110 – 1200

1200 – 12993 rows

Bernard IV of Comminges · ruler · 1200 – 1225
Alice of Montfort · ruler · 1217 – 1255
Martha, Viscountess of Marsan · ruler · 1230 – 1270

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood525 years
stood longer than 88% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median24 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record22
has more rulers on record than 92% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 847 – 1478, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1163, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2067314 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.