The
Count of Bordeaux or
comes Burdagalensis was the ruler of the city of
Bordeaux and its environs in the
Merovingian and
Carolingian periods. The names of the counts are scarcely known until the ninth century, when they start to take on a larger role because of their strategic importance in the defence against the
Vikings. Over the next two centuries, the county of Bordeaux was brought into union with the
Duchy of Gascony. The
County of Saintes (
comitatus Santonicensis) was often held concomitant with Bordeaux.
- Bordeaux inherited by William II of Gascony. Thereafter united to the duchy and acts as its capital even until Angevin times.