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France again invaded Bouillon in 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War, but Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne retained the title. From this point on, although the Duchy of Bouillon was officially still a part of the Holy Roman Empire, it was in actuality a French protectorate. This state of affairs was confirmed by the 1678 Treaties of Nijmegen.
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.
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 ...
Bouillon, Belgium, a town in Belgium Bouillon Castle, a medieval castle in Belgium; Duchy of Bouillon, a domain that existed between 1291 and 1806; Republic of Bouillon, a short-lived successor to the Duchy of Bouillon; Bouillon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in southwestern France; Le Bouillon, a commune in northwestern France
3 December 1792 – The 6th Duke of Bouillon dies and his son, Jacques Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, becomes the 7th Duke of Bouillon. 1794 – The French Revolutionary Army invade the Duchy of Bouillon and for 18 months it was the independent Republic of Bouillon. 25 October 1795 – Annexation of Bouillon by the French Republic.
Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668 – 17 April 1730) was a French nobleman and ruler of the Sovereign Duchy of Bouillon. He was the son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife Marie Anne Mancini. He married four times and had eleven children.
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.