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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 ...
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.
In 1384–1434 and 1505–27, Montpensier followed the succession in Duchy of Auvergne, and from 1434 onwards that of Dauphinate of Auvergne. Confiscated by King Francis I , the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon , sister of the Constable of France , and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon , and to her son Louis , and was ...
Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Auvergne. Pages in category "Dukes of Auvergne" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The Chaîne des Puys, a volcanic mountain range located in the Puy-de-Dôme department, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2018. [5] Composer Joseph Canteloube based Chants d'Auvergne ("Songs of Auvergne") (1923–55), his well-known piece for voice and orchestra, on folk music and songs from the Auvergne.
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.
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Évreux (2 August 1674–23 January 1753) married Marie Anne Crozat, daughter of Antoine Crozat, no issue; Louise Julie de La Tour d'Auvergne, Mademoiselle de Château-Thierry (26 November 1679–21 November 1750) married François Armand, Prince of Guéméné and had a child who died aged 3.
Henri, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais This page was last edited on 16 November 2023, at 13:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...