Alice, Countess of Bigorre
Alice of Bigorre( 1217/1220-1255), also known as" Alice" or" Alix de Monfort" was" suo jure" ruling Countess of Bigorre between 1251 and 1255.
She was the eldest daughter of Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre and her third husband Guy de Monfort.
Alice was married twice during her lifetime and from her first marriage, she gained the title of" Lady of Chabanais".
Centule II, Count of Bigorre
Centule II( also" Centulle")( died 1129) was the Count of Bigorre from 1114 to his death.
He broke Bigorre's feudal connection with France and established bonds across the Pyrenees with Aragon.
He was also a major participant in the Crusades, fighting in the army of Raymond of Saint- Gilles, and the Reconquista.
He was the second son of Centule V of Béarn by his second wife, Beatrice I of Bigorre.
He succeeded his elder brother Bernard III's daughter Beatrice II.
His elder half- brother Gaston IV was the viscount of Béarn and the two maintained excellent fraternal relations, undertaking almost every military expedition jointly.
Between 1095 and 1101, the two half- brothers were absent from the south of France on the First Crusade.
While Gaston was one of the heroes of the Crusade and consequently finds mention in many chronicles, Centule had not yet succeeded his brother at that point and was a mere nobleman, without a fief.
In 1113, Bernard died and his successor, the heiress Beatrice, followed him to the grave the next year.
Centule, now armed with the forces of Bigorre behind him, joined Gaston in an alliance with Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarre, on the successful expedition against Zaragoza in 1118.
For his part in the victory, Centule received a section of the city in fief of the king and twenty four villages in the Val d'Aran.
He participated in the conquest of Tudela in 1119 and in the great attack on Granada in 1125 – 1126.
In May 1122, he rendered homage to Alfonso, breaking his theoretical tie of vassalage to the Duchy of Aquitaine.
Centule married Estefania, daughter of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Dolça de Gévaudaun.
They had one daughter:
Centule died in 1129 and was succeeded by his daughter who was married to.
With this marriage she united the county of Bigorre and the viscounty of Marsan.
Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre
Petronilla of Bigorre or Petronilla of Comminges( 1184 – 1251) was ruling Countess of Bigorre between 1194 and 1251.
She was the only child of Bernard IV, Count of Comminges, and his wife Stephanie- Beatrice IV, Countess of Bigorre.
Petronilla succeeded her mother in 1194 as Countess of Bigorre; she was also Viscountess of Marsan and Nébouzan through further successions.
She reigned as countess for fifty- seven years, in which time she was married five times.
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester (– 25 June 1218), known as Simon IV (or V) de Montfort and as Simon de Montfort the Elder, was a French nobleman and soldier who took part in the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) and was a prominent leader of the Albigensian Crusade.
He died at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218.
He was lord of Montfort-l'Amaury in France and Earl of Leicester in England.
Ermesinda of Bigorre
Ermesinda of Bigorre
( Aragonese:" Ermisenda de Bigorra"), born Gerberga or Gisberga( 1015 – 1 December 1049), was a Queen of Aragon, a daughter of Bernard- Roger, Count of Bigorre and his wife Garsenda, Heiress of Bigorre.
She was a member of the House of Foix, the sister of Bernard II, Count of Bigorre, Roger I, Count of Foix, and perhaps of Stephanie who married García Sánchez III of Navarre.
Gerberga married on 22 August 1036 to King Ramiro I of Aragon.
After her wedding Gerberga changed her name to Ermesinda.
The couple were married for thirteen years, in which time her husband elevated himself from a vassal holding scattered lands around Jaca into a" de facto" ruler of pocket- kingdom spanning the former counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza, and is thereby credited with being the first King of Aragon.
They had the following children:
All of Ermesinda's children lived to adulthood.
She died on 1 December 1049 and she was buried at the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña.
Her husband remarried four years later to Agnes.
Pepin III, Count of Vermandois
Pepin III, Count of Vermandois( also known as Pepin II, Count of Senlis; French:" Pépin")( c. 846 – 893) was a Frankish noble; the Count of Senlis and Count of Vermandois( 850 – 893); Lord of Valois( 877 – 886), and later Count of Valois( 886 – 893).
He was a son of Pepin, Count of Vermandois and Valois and thus a grandson of Bernard of Italy, who was himself a grandson of Charlemagne.
The brothers of Pepin III were Herbert I, Count of Vermandois and Bernard II, Count of Laon.
Pepin III of Vermandois's wife is unknown; their son was:
Guy de Montfort, Count of Bigorre
Guy de Montfort (died 1220) was the Count of Bigorre from 6 November 1216 to 1220 in right of his wife, Petronilla.
He was a son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and Alice of Montmorency.
Guy joined his father on the Albigensian Crusade while still quite young.
Late in 1216, he married Petronilla, the heiress to Bigorre and Marsan through her mother Stephanie, and a daughter of Bernard IV of Comminges.
He fought at his father's side at the siege of Toulouse in 1218, but his father died: crushed by the projectile of a siege engine.
Guy's oldest brother Amaury de Montfort inherited their father's command, but not his strategic vision.
The Occitan lords rebelled against him and Guy was killed in a conflict at Castelnaudary in 1220, either on 4 April or in July.
Guy left a daughter, Alice, who succeeded Petronilla as Countess of Bigorre.
He also left a daughter named Pernelle, who married Raoul de la Roche-Tesson.
Margaret of Valois, Countess of Blois
Margaret of Valois( 1295–1342) was a French noblewoman.
She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois, and his first wife, Margaret, Countess of Anjou.
She was also a sister of King Philip VI of France.
In 1310, she married Guy I, Count of Blois.
They had three children together:
Eskivat de Chabanais
Eschivat IV Chabanais( died 1283) was Count of Bigorre from 1255 to 1283 and Count of Armagnac and de Fézensac of 1255 in 1256.
He was the son of Jordan, Lord of Chabanais, and Alix de Montfort, Countess of Bigorre.
Henry, Count of Looz
Henry( d. 2 August 1218), Count of Looz and Count of Duras, son of Gérard II, Count of Looz, and Adelaide of Gelderland, daughter of Henry I, Count of Guelders, and Agnes of Arnstein, daughter of Louis III of Arnstein.
Henry was Canon of St. Lambert in Liège, Provost of the Franciscans in Maastricht, and Provost of St. Alexander in Aschaffenburg.
Henry was Count of Looz for a few days in 1218, but died of poisoning.
He married Mechtild, daughter of Frederick III, Count of Vlanden.
Henry and Mechtild had one daughter:
He was succeeded as Count of Looz by his brother Arnold, and was the last recorded Count of Duras.

Question: Which country Guy De Montfort, Count Of Bigorre's father is from?
Answer: French