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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 ...
Coat of arms of Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne. The House of La Tour d'Auvergne (French: [la tuʁ dovɛʁɲ]) was an important French noble dynasty.Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century.
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.
[30] [31] [16] Gerald Fitzgerald's letters were signed as "Gerald, Chief in Ireland of the family of the Gherardini". [32] His son, the 9th Earl of Kildare , was also known as Lord Garrett, which translates as Signore Gherardini in Italian, and was married to Elizabeth Grey of the Royal House of Grey , a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth ...
Frédéric Jules de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Auvergne (2 May 1672–1733) married Olive Catherine de Trantes and had issue; 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;
The Prince's Tower, d'Auvergne's gothic residence, as depicted by Philip John Ouless in 1855. D'Auvergne lost the command of Jersey with the peace with France. His role was a wartime role, with peace came a Captain's half pay. He now spent his time in his house and gardens on Jersey, even opening the gardens to the public.
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne was born at the castle of Joze-en-Auvergne, near Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne.His parents were François de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne and Éléonore de Montmorency, eldest daughter of Anne, 1st Duc de Montmorency.
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]