Lope IV, Count Of Bigorre - Bigorre, Spain as a birth and death location

The county of Bigorre was probably founded around the same time as the vicomté of Béarn in the late 860s/early 870s. According to the spurious documents relating to the monastery of Alarcon, discussed fully in the Introduction to chapter 1 of the present document, the comtes de Bigorre descended from the family of the first dukes of Gascony. However, other surviving primary sources do not establish this descent beyond doubt. The county of Bigorre was approximately co-extensive with the ecclesiastical diocesis of Tarbes[152]. The direct male line of the first dynasty of comtes de Bigorre died out in [1040], after which the county passed successively through the female line to the families of the comtes de Carcassonne, the vicomtes de Béarn, the vicomtes de Marsan, the comtes de Comminges, the comtes de Montfort, and the seigneurs de Chabanais. The comtes de Bigorre were vassals of the Gascon dukes/counts until 1082 when Centule [I] Comte de Bigorre swore allegiance to Sancho I King of Aragon and Navarre. The homage was renewed by Comte Centule [II] in May 1122. The counts of Bigorre were later vassals of the bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay. This chapter also shows the families of the vicomtes de la Barthe, de Lavedan et de Montaner, who were vassals of the comtes de Bigorre.

The end of the independence of the county of Bigorre was marred by disputes between the rival claimants to the succession. In 1250, Pétronille Ctss of Bigorre disposed of her interests in the county to her son-in-law Gaston [VII] Vicomte de Béarn, who had married Pétronille’s youngest daughter, born from her fifth marriage to Boson de Marsan. However, in the following year, under her testament, the countess bequeathed Bigorre to her grandson Eschivat de Chabanais, the son of Pétronille’s older daughter by her third husband Guy de Montfort. The two claimants inevitably quarelled, and Eschivat was unable to defend the county against Gaston’s aggression. He therefore donated Bigorre to his paternal uncle Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester. After Earl Simon was killed in battle at Evesham in 1265, his widow transferred Bigorre to Henri III King of Navarre. Eschivat must later have regretted his decision to part with his heritage as, in 1276, he recognised the rights of his half-sister Mathilde de Courtenay (who had been born from his mother’s second marriage and so was not a descendant of the countess Pétronille) to half of the county, on the grounds that he was fulfilling the intentions of his maternal grandmother and also the conditions of the marriage contract for his mother’s second marriage. The 1276 document does not specify the fate of the other half of the county, but presumably it was retained by Eschivat. In any event, when Eschivat died in 1283, it passed to his full sister Lore de Chabanais. The matter was further complicated with the death in 1290 of Gaston [VII] Vicomte de Béarn, who left four daughters and co-heiresses by his marriage to Mathe de Marsan-Bigorre. Meanwhile, a side dispute arose between Mathilde de Courtenay and her half-sister Lore de Chabanais. This was submitted to arbitration in 1297, and the arbitrators sensibly recognised that the county was in fact then held by the French king Philippe IV, who was the direct heir through his wife to the kingdom of Navarre, and restricted their judgment to deciding that the two claimants should share the county if it was ever regained from the French crown. The main dispute continued to simmer, until 1303 when King Philippe IV summoned all parties to a public hearing. The documentation does not reveal the conclusions of the hearing, but in any case the county of Bigorre remained with the French crown. In 1503, the senior descendant of Lore de Chabanais took up the cudgels again with a detailed claim which proved his descent from Pétronille Ctss de Bigorre and asserted that he was the rightful heir to the county. The court did not challenge the details of the descent, but rejected the claim on the basis that the county had been lawfully ceded to the king of Navarre and from him had passed to the French crown. The details of the various primary sources on which this account is based are set out below in Part E of the present chapter.

Wow, awesome info. So basically, todays timeframe France. Based on your first sentence, Bigorre may have been formed around or during Lope IV timeframe. Using France rather than Spain, for today's timeframe gives us a visual location.