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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 ...
Although during the king's formal receptions (the Honneurs de la Cour) their sovereign origins were acknowledged in deferential prose, foreign princes were not members by hereditary right of the nation's main judicial and deliberative body, the Parlement of Paris, unless they also held a peerage; in which case, their legal precedence derived from its date of registration in that body.
All these titles would remain in the La Tour d'Auvergne family for more than a century. The family were created Foreign Princes in France in 1651, this entitled them to the style of [Most Serene] Highness at the French court in which they lived. Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, comte d'Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace.
The title passed to the House of Valois in 1566; then to the House of Orléans-Dunois in 1627, and then to the House of La Tour d'Auvergne de Bouillon in 1651. Title extinguished in 1802 with Jacques Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, 11th Duke. Duchy of Nemours: List: 1404
Counts of Auvergne Auvergne King of France Guy II de Auvergne(1195-1224) William X de Auvergne (1224-1246) Robert V de Auvergne (1247-1277) William XI de Auvergne(1277-1280) Robert VI de Auvergne(1280-1314) Counts of Auxerre Burgundy Duke of Burgundy Peter II of Courtenay (1184-1218) Hervé of Donzy (1218-1257) Guy II of Châtillon (1223-1225)
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]
Gilbert was the first person, after a number of divisions of Auvergne in the Middle Ages, to carry the bloodlines of the respective dynasties of each of the three main divisions of Auvergne, the countship, the dukedom and the dauphinate. His paternal grandmother Marie of Berry, Duchess of Bourbon, was heiress to the duchy of Auvergne.
Henri de Bourbon, prince dauphin d'Auvergne, then prince de Dombes and duc de Montpensier (1573 – 27 February 1608) [1] was a French prince du sang (prince of the blood), duke, military commander, governor and royal councillor during the final days of the French Wars of Religion.