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During the Hundred Years' War Auvergne faced numerous raids and revolts, including the Tuchin Revolt. In 1424 the Duchy of Auvergne passed to the House of Bourbon. Quite contemporaneously, the County of Auvergne passed to the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, and upon its extinction in 1531 it passed to Catherine de' Medici before becoming a royal ...
Ermengarde was the daughter of Robert I of Auvergne and Ermengarde of Provence. [2] By 1005 she married Odo II, Count Blois, and was his second wife. [3] After Ermengarde's marriage to Odo, she interceded for the monks at Marmoutier abbey, resulting in her husband building a bridge at Tours. [4] At her insistance, he made its usage toll free. [5]
The relationship between Claude and Charles III was described as a happy one. Claude was a favorite of her mother, who occasionally visited her in Lorraine, visits described as rare occasions of private family gatherings in the life of Catherine de' Medici, who enjoyed seeing her grandchildren by Claude and also liked her son-in-law Charles very much.
It was ruled by the Prince of Sedan (French: Prince de Sedan), who belonged to the noble La Marck and La Tour d'Auvergne families. The Princes of Sedan asserted and acquired recognition of their sovereignty gradually between the 1520s and 1580s by means of adopting the princely title, minting coin, legislating and signing treaties.
Coat of arms of Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne. The House of La Tour d'Auvergne (French: [la tuʁ dovɛʁɲ]) was an important French noble dynasty.Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century.
Born in Sedan, Ardennes, he was the son of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, and Elisabeth of Orange-Nassau. His brother was the renowned Turenne, Marshal of France. Raised as a Protestant, he received a military education in Holland under his uncles, Maurice of Nassau-Orange, and Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.
Condé and Navarre were the only grandees not to attend, and thus played no part in that assembly's calling of an estates general. To further isolate Navarre, Condé and the house of Bourbon-Vendôme, the Guise created two super governorships, giving them to their cousins Charles, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon and Louis, Duke of Montpensier ...
Mademoiselle d'Auvergne was a proposed bride for Honoré III, Prince of Monaco. [1] He was the son of the late Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, and her consort Jacques Goyon de Matignon. Even though marriage plans were announced to the court on 26 January 1741, [1] in the end the marriage never materialised. [1]