The town was known in antiquity as Vicus Aquensis [ 4 ] Latin for "watery neighborhood " and in the Middle Ages as Aquae Convenarum [ 5 ] [ 6 ] "Waters of the Comminges ".
Gules, 3 towers Argent, the middle elevated, enclosed by a surrounding wall the same, all masoned, embattled, windowed, and ported of Sable. The Adour river flows through the north-east of the commune and the town flowing towards the north to eventually flow into the Atlantic Ocean at Bayonne.
Bagneres-de-Bigorre is relatively untouched by the west by south-west disturbances which blow out before the high border mountain range. It is however intensely exposed to north by north-west disturbances that collide with the terrain. This barrier effect is felt up to the foothills so that springs, autumns, and winters are cool and rainy while summers are often hot and particularly stormy.
Valerius Messala stamped out the last pockets of tribal resistance in 28 BC at a victory over the Campani on a hill in Pouzac. It was sacked by the Visigoths amid the Barbarian Invasions. Archaeologists have proposed that the city was destroyed at some point by an earthquake and abandoned following a plague outbreak in By , "fires" i.
Mills were erected on widened canals fed by the Adour; in addition to grinding wheat, they were used to stamp cauldrons, forge scythes , and tanning hides. Amid the Hundred Years' War , the town fell into English possession in before suffering a second outbreak of plague the following year. The town became even more commercial. In , King Henry III of Navarre reformed the town's government, replacing its six consuls indirectly elected by a general assembly of the locals with a larger council of The area's natural springs again rose to national prominence under Jeanne d'Albret , [ 4 ] who became queen of Navarre and countess of Bigorre upon her father Henry 's death in She frequented the baths, prompting many other prominent visitors to follow.
