County of Porcéan

The county of Porcéan , also written Porcien , around the main town of Château-Porcien in what is now the Ardennes department, southwest of Mézières , already existed at the time of the Carolingians . Counts have been known since the 10th century . The last of them, Jacques, sold the county in 1302 to Gaucher de Châtillon , the Connétable of France . Four generations later, his descendants died out after they had sold Porcéan to Duke Louis de Valois in 1395 . His successor Charles de Valois sold it to Antoine I. de Croÿ in 1438 .

The Princes of Monaco (see Rainier III. And Albert II. ) Now hold the title of Prince of Château-Porcien.

Counts of Porcéan

Roger, Count of Porcéan,? Daughter of Gervais de Châtillon , Vidame de Reims
Godefroi , † 1139, 1097 Count of Porcéan, 1102 Count of Namur ; ? Sibylle, daughter of Roger
Heinrich I, Count of Grandpré , Count of Porcéan, 1120/24 probably also Count of Verdun

Gaucher de Châtillon († 1329), Count of Porcéan, Connétable of France
Gaucher VI. († 1325), his son, Count of Porcéan
Gaucher VII († 1342), his son, Count of Porcéan
Jean I, his son, Count of Porcéan, attests to 1346/1390
Jean II. († after 1435), his son, Count of Porcéan, sold the county to the Duke of Orléans in 1395

Louis de Valois , Duke of Orléans
Jean de Dunois , his son, Count of Porcéan in the period from March 29, 1427 to December 14, 1430
Charles de Valois , Louis' son, sold the county to the House of Croy

Antoine I. de Croÿ († 1475), bought Porcéan in 1438
Philippe I. de Croÿ , Lord of Aarschot († 1511), his son
Henri de Croÿ († 1514), his son
Charles de Croÿ , his son
Antoine III. de Croÿ († 1567), his son, from June 4, 1561 Prince of Porcéan
Philippe III. de Croÿ († 1595), Duke of Aarschot and Prince of Chimay , cousin Antoines and nephew Charles', inherited Porcéan in 1567
Charles III de Croÿ († 1612), his son, Duke of Croÿ, sold Porcéan in 1608 to Carlo I. Gonzaga , Duke of Nevers and Rethel