Faucigny (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Faucigny
Ruins of the castle of Faucigny

The Lords of Faucigny were a noble Savoy family, named after the Faucigny castle in the Arve valley in Haute-Savoie .

history

The lords of Faucigny extended their influence over the entire valley and gave the Faucigny region its name. These included Beaufort Castle and Lucinges Castle, which was destroyed in the 14th century . The gender has been traceable since the beginning of the 11th century. The family provided bishops from Geneva , Lausanne and Maurienne . With Aymon II the main line of the family died out in 1253 and the property fell to his daughter Agnes († 1268), who was married to Peter II, Count of Savoy . Through the marriage of her daughter Beatrix († 1310) with the Dauphin Guigues VII , the Faucigny fell to the Dauphiné in 1268 , but returned to the possession of Savoy in 1355 through the Treaty of Paris.

At the end of the 12th century, the Faucigny-Lucinge sideline, which is still flourishing today, split off, becoming Count of Faucigny in 1640 and Prince of Lucinge in 1828 . The current head of the family is Stanislas Prince de Faucigny-Lucinge et de Coligny (* 1963).

family members

literature

  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories and imperial immediate families from the Middle Ages to the present. 6th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44333-8 , p. 168.
  • Bernard Demotz: Faucigny . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . tape 4 . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , Sp. 319 f .

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