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The Duchy of Bouillon (French: Duché de Bouillon) was a duchy comprising Bouillon and adjacent towns and villages in present-day Belgium. The state originated in the 10th century as property of the Lords of Bouillon , owners of Bouillon Castle .
Godefroy III (b. 1728, r. 1771, d. 1792), duke of Bouillon and prince of Turenne, favourable to the French Revolution, committed his duchy to the path of reform by an edict of 24 February 1790 and supported his assemblée générale (parliament) when it voted to abolish manorial and feudal rights on 26 May 1790.
Bouillon absorbed into the French Republic: 27 May 1801 Jacques Léopold: House of Rohan, 1816–1918. The Congress of Vienna in 1816 awarded the title of Duke of ...
The lordship of Bouillon was in the 10th and 11th century one of the core holdings of the Ardennes–Bouillon dynasty, and appears to have been their original patrimonial possession. [ 1 ] The Bouillon estate was a collection of fiefs , allodial land, and other rights.
Louise-Charlotte (1638-1683) "known as Mademoiselle de Bouillon"; Amelie (1640-), who became a nun Frédéric Maurice, comte d'Auvergne (1642–1707) married Princess Henriette Françoise von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Marquise de Bergen-op-Zoom and had 13 children; grandfather of Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne , mother of Charles Theodore ...
The Crusader Godfrey of Bouillon was a nephew of Godfrey IV the Hunchback, and the last of the dynasty to hold the Duchy. The Castle of Bouillon is first mentioned in 988 in a letter to Godfrey Ι the Captive from his brother Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims .
Duchy of Bouillon (to April 24, 1794) Republic of Bouillon (from April 24, 1794 to October 26, ... Ireland – Kingdom of Ireland Capital: Dublin: Widely recognized ...
The Duchy of Bouillon and other titles passed to their second son, Emmanuel Théodose (1668–1730), whose fourth wife was Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine. Another son, Frédéric-Jules, Prince d'Auvergne (1672–1733), married an Irish adventuress.