Counts and Dukes of Étampes
The county Etampes (French: Comté d' Etampes ) was built by King Philip III. his son Louis (1276-1319) commissioned by France as Paragium. In 1327 it was raised to the peerage.
1375 closed the Countess of Etampes, Jeanne de Brienne- Eu, due to financial difficulties an agreement with Jean de Valois, duc de Berry. He gave her the money needed and in return received a right of first refusal with respect to their heritage, if there should be no offspring. The Countess died in 1389, the Count in 1400.
Jean de Berry in turn promised to leave the county Etampes to the Duke of Burgundy, canceled this promise but back in 1407, when the Burgundians who murdered his brother, the Duke of Orléans. The town of Etampes was conquered by the Bourguignons 1411, then retrieved by the French. Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, the county wanted to give his nephew John of Nevers, a great-grandson of John of Berry's.
Since Etampes was a Paragium, the county but then returned - after a process in Parliament - in the Domaine royal back.
In 1513 Louis XII gave. the county to his wife, Anne de Bretagne.
Count of Etampes
- Roscelin, Vicomte d' Etampes, founder of the House Milly -en- Gâtinais
- Marc, Vicomte d' Etampes ( stampensius vice comes ), whose son Leticie, Dame de Méréville, whose daughter; ∞
After Schwennicke (see master list of the Capetians ) were in the 12th century a Jean d' Etampes, who was married to Eustachia, the daughter of King Philip I and the Bertrada of Montfort. However, Dom Basile Fleureau into his Antiquitez de la Ville et du Duchy d' Etampes from ( posthumous edition of 1683), that Jean d' Etampes neither Count of Etampes was son of Philip I.. According to him, these are just a mistake François de Belle Forests (1530-1583): Jeans wife Eustache not entstamme the royal family, but the house Corbeil
House France Évreux
House of Valois
After his death Etampes was sold by the Duke of Burgundy, but returned at the end of a process in Parliament back in the Domaine royal. Charles VII was Etampes to Richard of Brittany in return for services rendered.
House France Dreux
House Grailly et al
Dukes of Etampes
1536 Etampes to the Duchy will be charged