Un Gascon en pays de cocagne dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle : Adrien de Monluc, comte de Cramail

A Gascon in the Land of Cockayne during in the First Half of the 17th Century : Adrien de Monluc, count of Cramail. By his marriage to Jeanne de Foix-Carmain in 1592, Adrien de Monluc became the first Count of Caraman born outside the lineage since the 13th Century. More often present at the court or on the battle-field than on his possessions in the “land of cockayne”, this Gascon set up a method of administration of his estate that depended as much on the feudal system as on the world of seigneurial officers. These newly created fidelities rest upon a outside domestic household that assured the surveillance of the county during these troubled times.