See also:

• QUERCY (Lat. pagus Caturcinus, Fr. Cahorsin)

QUERCY (See also:

• LAT

Lat. pagus Caturcinus, Fr. Cahorsin)  , a See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France before the Revolution . The name is taken from that of a Gallic tribe, the Cadurci, and was applied to a smalldistrict watered by the See also:

• DORDOGNE

Dordogne, the See also:

• LOT
• LOT (Lat. Oltis)

Lot and the See also:

• TARN
• TARN (O. Eng. tame, Scand. tjarn, tjdrn, horn, &c.)

Tarn . It was bordered by See also:

• LIMOUSIN (Lat. Pagus Lemovicinus, ager Lemovicensis, regio Lemovicum, Lemozinum, Limosinium, &c.)
• LIMOUSIN (or LIMOSIN), LEONARD (c. 1505-c. 1577)

Limousin, See also:

• ROUERGUE (Ruthenensis pages)

Rouergue, See also:

• ARMAGNAC

Armagnac, See also:

• PERIGORD

Perigord and See also:

• AGENAIS

Agenais . In the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages it was divided into upper, or See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, See also:

• QUERCY (Lat. pagus Caturcinus, Fr. Cahorsin)

Quercy, and See also:

• LOWER

lower, or See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white, Quercy, the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the former being See also:

• CAHORS

Cahors and of the latter See also:

• MONTAUBAN
• MONTAUBAN, ARTHUR DE (d. 1479)

Montauban . Its two other See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief towns were See also:

• FIGEAC

Figeac and See also:

• MOISSAC

Moissac . Ecclesiastically it was included almost entirely in the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Cahors until 1317, when a bishopric for lower Quercy was established at Montauban . Judicially it was under the authority of . the See also:

• PARLEMENT (see PARLIAMENT)

parlement of See also:

• BORDEAUX

Bordeaux; for See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial purposes it was See also:

• PART

part of the generalite of Montauban . The estates of the county had the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Cahors for See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president; other members were the bishop of Montauban and other ecclesiastics, four viscounts, four barons and some other lords and representatives of eighteen towns . Under the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans Quercy was part of Aquitania prima, and See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity was introduced therein during the 4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

Early in the 6th century it passed under the authority of the See also:

• FRANKS
• FRANKS, SIR AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON (1826-1897)

Franks, and in the 9th century was part of the Frankish See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• AQUITAINE

Aquitaine . At the end of the loth century its rulers were the powerful See also:

• COUNTS

counts of See also:

• TOULOUSE
• TOULOUSE, LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON, COUNT OF (1678-1737)

Toulouse . During the See also:

• WARS

wars between See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and France in the reign of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry II., the See also:

• ENGLISH

English placed garrisons in the county, and by the treaty of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1259 lower Quercy was ceded to England .

Both the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of England and the king of France confirmed and added to the. privileges of the towns and the See also:

• DISTRICT

district, each thus hoping to attach the inhabitants to his own See also:

• INTEREST

interest . In 136o, by the treaty of Bretigny, the whole county passed to England, but in 1440 the English were finally expelled . In the 16th century Quercy was a stronghold of the Protestants, and the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage religious warfare . The See also:

• CIVIL

civil wars of the reign of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIII. centred around Montauban . Quercy was early an See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial district . It gave its name to cadurcum, a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• LIGHT

light See also:

• LINEN

linen, and the bankers of Cahors were famous .