Guienne

Or Guy·enne

[gwee-yen]

noun

1. a former province in SW France.

Guienne

/ ɡɥijɛn /

noun

1. a former province of SW France: formed, with Gascony, the duchy of Aquitaine during the 12th century

Example Sentences

The thanks which the heir-apparent, the Duke of Guienne, accompanied by the Dukes of Berri, Burgundy, Bavaria, and Bar, solemnly rendered to the assembled Faculty, virtually recognized it as a part of the State.

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In 1038 Queen Kunigunde had died in Italy, and in 1043 the king was married at Ingelheim to Agnes, daughter of William V., duke of Guienne, a union which drew him much nearer to the reforming party in the church.

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In 1152 by a marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the divorced wife of the French king Louis VII., he acquired Poitou, Guienne and Gascony; but in doing so incurred the ill-will of his suzerain from which he suffered not a little in the future.

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Cardinal Beaufort, and after him Suffolk, sought by working for peace to secure at least Guienne and Normandy.

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But his home administration was unpopular, whilst the incapacity of Edmund Beaufort ended in the loss of all Normandy and Guienne.

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