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
House of Châtillon
- 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
House of Valois-Orléans
- 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
House Croÿ
- 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