Cecilia of Comminges

Cécile de Comminges (1320–1384), was Countess of Urgel 1336–1347 and Viscountess of Turenne 1339–1349. Biography Cécile de Comminges was the eldest daughter of Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges and Viscount of Turenne and his third wife Mathe de l'Isle-Jourdain. In 1336, Cécile married James I, Count of Urgell, son of Alfonso IV of Aragon and his first wife Teresa d'Entença who was Countess of Urgell. In 1339, after the deaths of her father and then her only brother, Jean, aged three, Cécile inherited the viscounty of Turenne, a title her father had received from his second wife, Marguerite de Turenne. The succession of the county of Comminges, however, provoked a conflict with her uncle Pierre-Raymond, brother of Bernard VIII, who disputed the right of women to inherit the county of Comminges, arguing that it was a male fief. The conflict was defused by the intervention of Cardinal Jean de Raymond, Archbishop of Toulouse: Pierre-Raymond became count of Comminges and Cécile became viscountess of Turenne.