Charolais county
The county Charolais is a landscape in France in today's Saône-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . The main town is Charolles .
The Charolais was part of the county of Chalon-sur-Saône and was acquired with this in 1237 by Duke Hugo IV of Burgundy . His granddaughter Beatrix inherited the property . Through her marriage to Robert of Clermont , son of Louis the Saint , the Charolais came to the House of Bourbon . It fell to Robert's second son Johann in 1314, who bequeathed it to his daughter Beatrix, who married Count Johann I von Armagnac in 1327 . Her grandson Bernard VII d'Armagnac sold the county in 1390 to the Burgundian Duke Philip II the Bold . With parts of the Burgundian inheritance it came first to France in 1477 and to the House of Habsburg in 1493 , but remained under the feudal sovereignty and in the legal area of the French crown. From now on, the history of the County of Charolais is closely linked to the history of the Free County of Burgundy . It came to the Spanish Habsburgs in 1559, who ceded it to Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé , in 1684 to repay debts .
The county was only incorporated into the province of Burgundy in 1761 after the death of the last Count Charles de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Charolais .
The Charolais cheese and the cattle breed of the same name are named after the county .
literature
- Jean Richard: Charol (l) ais. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2, dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 .