Duke of Nemours
The Duchy of Nemours was a hereditary duchy French ( duché - pairie ), 1404 for Charles III. d' Évreux was built.
In the 12th and 13th centuries the Seigneurie Nemours was in possession of the house Villebon, whose member Gauthier III. de Nemours 1257 Marshal of France was. The rule was 1274 and 1276 by Jean and Philippe, the brothers of the deceased childless Marshal, to Philip III. sold. In 1364 it was raised to the county and Jean III. given de Grailly, Captal de Buch fief.
1404 was Charles VI. Nemours to Charles III. d' Evreux, King of Navarre, and raised the territory of the duchy and peerage. The daughter of Charles III. , Beatrice, brought the duchy of her husband, Jacques II de Bourbon, Count of La Marche in the marriage, and the marriage of their daughter Eleanor with Bernard d' Armagnac, Count of Pardiac, she came to the house of Armagnac.
After it has been repeatedly confiscated and rebuilt, the duchy fell Nemours - after eradication of the house Armagnac Pardiac - 1503 back to the Crown, to which Louis XII. it in 1507 to his nephew Gaston de Foix was. After his death in 1512 at Ravenna Franz forgave I it in 1515 to Giuliano II de ' Medici, the husband of his aunt Philiberta of Savoy.
1528 done again, it was awarded by Francis I. to Philip of Savoy, his mother's brother. The female offspring of the 1659 extinct in the male line House of Savoy - Nemours sold it in 1666 to Louis XIV, the 1672 is his brother Philippe d'Orléans gave, whose descendants possessed it until the French Revolution in 1789.
King Louis- Philippe gave his second son, Louis, the title of Duke of Nemours.
As part of the February Revolution of 1848, the title was finally abolished.
Count of Nemours
- Jean III. de Grailly († 1376 ), Captal de Buch, 1364 Count of Nemours
Dukes of Nemours
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