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'''Bérard d’Albret''', lord of [[Vayres, Gironde|Vayres]] and [[Vertheuil]] (died 1346) was a [[Cadet (genealogy)|cadet]] member of the [[Albret|House of Albret]] in [[Gascony]] and an [[England|English]] commander during the [[Hundred Years War]].
He was the son of [[Amanieu VIII]] and younger brother of [[Bernard Ezi IV]].
Bérard remained a supporter of the English side after the [[War of Saint-Sardos]] in 1324 when many of his family defected to the [[France|French]].
At the onset of the Hundred Years’ War, in 1337, he was captain of [[Blaye]] and [[Puynormand]] on the northern march of what remained of the [[Duchy of Aquitaine]].
On 20 April 1339 a French force transported by galleys attacked Blaye from the river side. The defenders were caught completely by surprise and both town and citadel was taken. Bérard was captured and brought as a prisoner to the [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]] in [[Paris]].
By 1345 he was back in Gascony serving with his older brother [[Bernard Ezi IV]] under [[Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster|Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Lancaster]]. In August Lancaster captured [[Bergerac, Dordogne|Bergerac]], the principal French garrison town in [[Périgord]], by storm. When the Earl marched onward on 10 September he left the brothers in command of the town with a force of 1,500 men.
==References==
*[[Jonathan Sumption|Sumption, Jonathan]]. ''The Hundred Years War I, Trial by Battle''
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