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The Coat of Arms used for Guyenne are the same as for Aquitaine.
Guyenne ( ; Occitan Guiana ) is a vaguely defined historic region of south-western France. The Province of Guyenne, sometimes called the Province of Guyenne and Gasconymarker was a large province of pre-revolutionary France.

The name Guyenne comes from the Occitan Guiana, which is itself a corruption of the word Aquitainemarker. However the words Aquitaine and Guyenne came to indicate different entities. The region of Guyenne also became confused with the region of Gasconymarker until this took on a distinct identity in the 17th Century. From this time "Guyenne and Gascony" was a common term corresponding roughly to modern northern Aquitaine.

The Duchy of Guyenne appears for the first time in the Treaty of Paris of 1229 which brought an end to the Albigensian Crusade, and may have been actually created by that treaty. The capital was Bordeauxmarker. The Duchy was under the Kings of England, as Guyenne had been since 1188, and remained an English vassal until 1453. In 1453 it became land directly under the French Crown, except from 1469-72 when it was granted to Charles de Valois (until his death).

In 1561, Guyenne was made a province, and included Bordelais, Bazadais, Limousinmarker, Périgord, Quercy, Rouergue, Agenais, Saintonge, and Angoumoismarker. The province was abolished with all French provinces at the time of the French Revolution.


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