County Marle

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The rule and later county of Marle was a northern French fiefdom with the town of Marle in the later Aisne department as its center. The area belonged to 10/11. Century a member of the House of Roucy and in the following centuries was often inherited in a female line to different families.

The most famous Count of Marle is Robert von Bar , who - after his inheritance, the Duchy of Bar , had been withheld from him - was compensated (among other things) with the county of Marle in 1413. With Robert's only daughter Johanna, the county came to the House of Luxemburg-Ligny , and later to the Bourbons.

Lords and Counts of Marle

House Roucy

House Boves

House Ghent

  • Enguerrand V. de Guînes, † after 1321, their son, Seigneur de Coucy, de La Fère , de Marle, d' Oisy , de Montmirail et de Condé-en-Brie
  • Guillaume de Coucy, † 1335, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de La Fère, d'Oisy et de Montmirail
  • Enguerrand VI., † 1344, 1335 Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de La Fère et d'Oisy
  • Enguerrand VII. De Coucy , † 1398, 1347 Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle etc., 1365 Earl of Bedford , Count of Soissons
    • Marie , † 1405, Comtesse de Soissons, heiress to Coucy and Oisy; ∞ Heinrich von Bar, X 1396

House Dampierre

House Scarponnois

House Luxembourg-Ligny

Bourbons

More Counts of Marle

  • Armand Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye (1632–1713) Duc de Mazarin, Comte de Marle etc.