Charolais county

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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 .