County of Porhoët

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The county of Porhoët (at times also vice-county of Porhoët) with the capital La Trinité-Porhoët in the Morbihan department in central Brittany existed in the 11th to 16th centuries. At first it was a title that was given to members of the ducal family ( House Rennes ), later to a vice-county in the hands of the Rohan with its center at Josselin Castle .

After the vice counts died out in the middle of the 13th century, Duke Peter Mauclerc gave Porhoet as a county to his daughter Yolande († 1272). Half a century later, the land was owned by the Count of Alençon for three generations . At the beginning of the 15th century, Olivier V. de Clisson held the county, which he passed on to the Rohan again through his daughter. After the death of the last Rohan of this line in 1527, the title was no longer used.

House of Rennes

House Rohan

  • Guethenoc, Vicomte de Châteautro-en-Porhoët 1008/21
  • Eudon I, Viscount de Porhoët et de Rennes 1066/92, his grandson
  • Geoffroy , Viscount de Porhoët 1119, † 1141, his son
  • Josselin, Vicomte de Porhoët 1105/24, his brother, also brother of Alain I. Vicomte de Rohan
  • Eudon II , Count of Porhoët, 1148/56 Duke of Brittany , † after 1168, son of Geoffroys
  • Eudon III, Count of Porhoët, † 1234, his son
  • Mathilde, Vicomtesse de Porhoët, his daughter; ∞ Geoffroi Count of Fougères
  • Yolande, Countess of Porhoët and Penthièvre, † 1272, daughter of Peter Mauclerc Duke of Brittany

House Valois-Alençon

House Rohan

  • Olivier V. de Clisson , † 1407, Count of Porhoët
  • Béatrix de Clisson, † 1448, Countess of Porhoët, his daughter; ∞ Alain VIII. De Rohan , Viscount de Rohan
  • Alain IX. Viscount de Rohan , † 1462, Count of Porhoët
  • Alain, X 1449, Count of Porhoët, his son
  • Jean II. De Rohan, † 1516, Viscount de Rohan, Viscount de Léon, Comte de Porhoët, his brother
  • Jacques I., † 1527, 1516 Viscount de Rohan et de Léon, Comte de Porhoët
    • Anne de Rohan, † 1529, his sister; ∞ Pierre II. De Rohan, X 1525, Viscount de Carentan
  • René I, X 1552, their son, Viscount de Rohan, Comte de Porhoët
  • Henri I, † 1575, his son, Vicomte de Rohan, Comte de Porhoët
  • René II, † 1586, his brother, Viscount de Rohan, Comte de Porhoët
  • Henri II , X 1638, his son, 1603 Duc de Rohan
  • Marguerite de Rohan, † 1684, his daughter, 1639 Duchesse de Rohan et de Frontenay, 4th Princesse de Léon, Princesse de Soubise , Comtesse de Porhoët, Marquise de Blain et de La Garnache , Comtesse de Lorges etc .; ∞ Henri Chabot, 1648 Duc de Rohan
  • Louis de Rohan-Chabot, † 1727, their son, 2nd Duc de Rohan etc., Comte de Porhoët
  • Louis Bretagne Alain de Rohan-Chabot, † 1738, his son, 3rd Duc de Rohan etc., Comte de Porhoët
  • Louis Marie Bretagne Dominique de Rohan-Chabot, † 1791, his son, 4th Duc de Rohan etc., Comte de Porhoët