Vertus county

The county of Vertus around the capital Vertus in today's Marne department was originally a simple seigneurie owned by the Archbishop of Reims . In the middle of the 10th century it went to Count Heribert II of Vermandois , later - via his daughter Liutgard - to the Counts of Champagne . With Louis of France, who among other things inherited the Champagne in 1305 and became King of France as Louis X in 1314 , Vertus also fell to the crown.

King Philip VI gave Vertus as a county to his youngest son Philipp , who died childless in 1375. After him, Isabella of France († 1372) received the county, the youngest daughter of King John II , and with it her husband Gian Galeazzo Visconti († 1402). Via the daughter of the two, Valentina Visconti , the county then passed to her husband, Duke Ludwig von Orléans († 1407) and then to his son Philipp (* 1396, † 1420).

This was followed by his half-brother John of Orléans († 1468), who exchanged the county with his other half-brother, Duke Charles of Orléans , for the county of Dunois . Charles of Orléans gave Vertus in 1420 to his sister Margaret of Orléans († 1466), who brought the county into the Breton ducal house through her marriage to Richard of Bretagne , Count of Étampes , and their son, Francis II .

With Brittany, the county of Vertus finally fell to the French crown.

However, in 1485 Duke Franz II had appointed his illegitimate son François (whose mother was Antoinette de Maignelais , the former mistress of King Charles VII ) as Count of Vertus and Goëllo . Its descendants carried the title until they died out in 1746.

14.-15. century

Coat of arms of the Visconti

• Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351–1402), Duke of Milan
• Valentina Visconti (1368–1408), his daughter; ⚭ 1389 Duke Louis of Orléans (1372–1407)
• Philippe d'Orléans (1396–1420), his son

Philippe d'Orléans coat of arms

• Marguerite d'Orléans (around 1405–1466), his sister; ⚭ Richard de Bretagne (1395–1438), Comte d'Étampes , de Benon et de Mantes

Richard de Bretagnes coat of arms

• François II (1435–1488), his son, titular count of Étampes, then Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond , Comte de Vertus

Franz II coat of arms'

The second house Avaugour

• François I. d'Avaugour (1462–1510), 1480 Baron d'Avaugour, 1st Baron de Bretagne, 1485 Breton Comte de Vertus et de Goello, Seigneur de Clisson etc., son of Duke Francis II of Bretagne and Antoinette de May relay; ⚭ 1492 Madeleine de Brosse, known as de Bretagne, daughter of Jean III, Count von Penthièvre ( House Brosse ) - the descendants of François I and Madeleine de Brosse have the family name "d'Avaugour, dit de Bretagne"
• François II d'Avaugour (1493–1517), their son, 2nd Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 2nd Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ Madeleine d'Astarac, daughter of Count Jean IV.
• François III. d'Avaugour († 1549), their son, 3rd Comte de Vertus et de Goello, Comte de Chelannes, 3rd Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ Charlotte de Pisseleu, no descendants
• Odet d'Avaugour († 1598), his brother, 1544–1548 Bishop of Saintes , 1548 4th Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 4th Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ Renée de Coesmes, daughter of Charles III, Viscount de Saint-Nazaire - the descendants of Odet and Renée bear the family name "de Bretagne"
• Charles d'Avaugour († 1608), their son, 5th Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 5th Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ Philippe, Viscountess de Guiguen
• Claude I. d'Avaugour (1581–1637), their son, 6th Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 6th Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ Catherine Fouquet, daughter of Guillaume Fouquet, Marquis de la Varenne
• Louis d'Avaugour († 1669), his son, 7th Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 7th Baron d'Avaugour; ⚭ I Françoise de Daillon, daughter of Timoléon, Comt du Lude ( Daillon house ); ⚭ II Françoise Louise de Balzac, daughter of Henri, Comte de Clermont-d'Entragues ( House of Balzac ) - without descendants
• Claude II. D'Avaugour (1629-1699), his brother, 1st Marquis d'Avaugour, 1669 8th Comte de Vertus et de Goello; ⚭ Anne Judith Le Lièvre, daughter of Thomas, Marquis de La Grange
• Armand-François d'Avaugour (1682–1734), his son, 1699 9th Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 9th Baron d'Avaugour, 1719 Marshal of France ;
• Henri-François d'Avaugour (1685–1746), his brother, 10th and last Comte de Vertus et de Goello, 10th Baron d'Avaugour in 1734; ⚭ I Madeleine d'Aligre, daughter of Étienne; ⚭ II Marie-Madeleine Charette de Montebert, daughter of Gilles - no offspring

The county of Vertus in north-eastern France was enclosed by the county of Champagne