County of Auvergne

State · 1206–1501 CE · at its largest around 1375 CE

County in the mountainous Massif Central of France, held by a line of counts who later also became counts of Boulogne.

On its lands while it lasted

Arras (c. 1241 CE): Capital of County of Artois (1241–1332).
Shroud of Turin (c. 1300 CE): A linen cloth bearing the faint image of a man, venerated by many as the burial shroud of Jesus. Radiocarbon dating in 1988 placed it between 1260 and 1390; first recorded at Lirey in France, it has been kept in Turin since 1578.
Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302 CE): Flemish town militias defeated French knights at Kortrijk, showing that infantry could beat heavy cavalry.
Hundred Years' War (1337–1453 CE): Series of wars between England and France over the French throne, ending with England losing all its French lands except Calais.
Battle of Crécy (1346 CE): English longbowmen under Edward III defeated a much larger French army in northern France.
Christine de Pizan (c. 1364 CE – 1430 CE): Italian-born writer at the French court whose Book of the City of Ladies defended women; one of Europe's first professional women writers.
Joan of Arc (c. 1412 CE – 1431 CE): French peasant girl who led French forces to lift the siege of Orléans; she was captured, tried for heresy and burned at Rouen.
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412 CE): A lavishly illuminated book of hours painted by the Limbourg brothers for John, Duke of Berry, famous for its calendar scenes. Left unfinished at their deaths in 1416, it is now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.
Battle of Agincourt (1415 CE): Henry V's outnumbered English army, relying on longbowmen, defeated the French nobility in northern France.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500 CE – 1558 CE): Habsburg ruler of Spain, the Netherlands, much of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire. He opposed the Reformation and abdicated his titles in Brussels in 1555–1556.