| “ | You are nothing but a devious murderer who has escaped justice for far too long! But mark my words, John: I will right this wrong. | ” |
| —Threatening John the Fearless in The Wolf and the Lion | ||
Bernard d'Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) is a cavalry hero unit in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Lords of the West. He appears as a unique cavalry unit wielding a lance, and is similar to a Frankish Paladin with more gold plating on its armor and barding. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health.
He is featured as a player in the scenarios The Wolf and the Lion and The Cleansing of Paris (the latter of which he appears as a unit) in the The Grand Dukes of the West campaign.
Campaign appearances[]
The Grand Dukes of the West[]
- The Cleansing of Paris: Bernard d'Armagnac leads the Armagnac forces occupying Paris. John the Fearless must kill him to seize control of Paris and break the Armagnac forces.
Bernard d'Armagnac's forces also appear in The Wolf and the Lion, but Bernard himself doesn't appear.
Jan Zizka[]
- Courage and Coin: Friedrich von Wallenrode is a renamed Bernard. He leads the Crusader forces on the eastern Teutonic flank. Killing him and the other Teutonic Commanders will break the Teutons' morale.
Victors and Vanquished[]
- Ragnar: Robert the Strong, a renamed Bernard, leads a small Frankish force to the east of Rennes. Killing him will fulfill a saga of the Dukes of Normandy.
History[]
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (1360 – 12 June 1418) was Count of Armagnac and Constable of France. He was the son of John II, Count of Armagnac, and Jeanne de Périgord. He succeeded in Armagnac at the death of his brother, John III, in 1391. After prolonged fighting, he also became Count of Comminges in 1412.
After Louis' assassination in 1407, Armagnac remained attached to the cause of Orléans. He married his daughter Bonne to the young Charles, Duke of Orléans in 1410. Bernard d'Armagnac became the nominal head of the faction which opposed John the Fearless in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, and the faction came to be called the "Armagnacs" as a consequence.
He became constable of France in 1415 and was the head of the government of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII, until the Burgundians invaded Paris in the night of 28–29 May 1418. On 12 June 1418, he was one of the first victims of the massacres in which anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000 of his real or suspected followers were killed in the course of weeks throughout the summer.
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