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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 ...
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)
In the late Middle Ages and the modern era, the duchy and peerage were attributed to smaller feudal groups, mainly former counties. The holders were most often princes of the royal family, under the rule of appanage which required that the extinction of the male descendants of the first holder led to the attachment to the royal domain of the duchy.
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.
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]
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.
Guy's son and successor William X of Auvergne later received back a small part of Auvergne, after breaking his contacts with England in 1228, and pledging his loyalty to the King of France. In 1356, King John II of France made the Terre d’Auvergne a Duchy for his third son John, Duke of Berry .
Still others, out of convenience, choose to call these successors the "counts-dauphins of Auvergne." The title of dauphin of Auvergne was derived from William VII's mother, who was the daughter of the Dauphin de Viennois, Guigues IV. This meant that William VII's male descendants were usually given "Dauphin" as a second name.