Charolais, France

The county of Charolais is a landscape in France in present-day département of Saône- et- Loire in the Burgundy region. Main town is Charolles.

The Charolais was part of the county Chalon -sur -Saône and was acquired in 1237 by the Duke Hugh IV of Burgundy. The property was inherited by his granddaughter Beatrix. Through her ​​marriage to Robert of Clermont the son of Saint Louis was the Charolais to the House of Bourbon. It fell in 1314 to Roberts second son John, who left it his daughter Beatrix, married in 1327 which John I, Count of Armagnac. Her grandson Bernard VII of Armagnac sold the county in 1390 to the Duke of Burgundy Philip II the Bold. With parts of the Burgundian inheritance they came in 1477, first to France and in 1493 to the House of Habsburg, however, remained under the suzerainty and in the legal sphere of the French crown. The history of the county Charolais is linked from now on closely with the history of the Free County of Burgundy. She came in 1559 to the Spanish Habsburgs, which they in 1684 to repay debt to Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, who abdicated.

The county was first incorporated in 1761 after the death of the last Count Charles de Bourbon- Condé, comte de Charolais in the province of Burgundy.

According to the county, the cheese and the same Charolais cattle breed is named.