Reign of Villars
The rule of Villars was a fief that is attested as early as the 10th century. It was halfway between Bourg-en-Bresse and Lyon , in the center of the Dombes region . In 1497 Villars was raised to a county, 1565 to a margraviate (marquisate); In 1666 the margraviate was sold piece by piece and thus dissolved.
origin
The name Villars-les-Dombes indicates that the place bordered on the former principality of Dombes, but was not part of it. The older name Villars-en-Bresse, on the other hand, emphasizes that the town used to belong to the Bresse landscape , which was dominated by the House of Savoy , as opposed to the Dauphiné , a province that was subject to the French crown early on.
The rule of Villars (first mentioned in a document in 940) grew in 1188 through marriage with the approval of the Roman-German King Henry VI. to the fief of Thoire and Villars, whose main town was the city of Trévoux around 1400 . From the family Thoire and Villars, whose most famous representative was Odo von Thoire and Villars , the rule changed again by marriage to Philippe de Lévis (1380-1440), Vicomte de Lautrec . René de Savoie , called le Grand Bâtard de Savoie ("the great bastard of Savoy"), followed him in 1497. In 1565 Villars was raised to margraviate under René's son Honorat de Savoie .
Lords of Villars
House Villars
- Étienne de Villars, attested around 1080
- Adalard de Villars, attested around 1080, probably his son
- Ulric, Seigneur de Villars, attested around 1130, probably his son
- Étienne I., Seigneur de Villars, 1131/39 attested, † before 1145, his son
- Étienne II, Seigneur de Villars, attested in 1139, † 1187/88, his son
- Agnès de Villars, † after 1242, his daughter; ⚭ Étienne I., Sire de Thoire, 1188/1228 attested (Thoire: The valley of the Ain in the north of today's Ain department ( Revermont and Haut- Bugey ) and in the south of the Jura department , west of Oyonnax and Nantua .)
House Thoire-Villars
- Étienne II, Sire de Thoire et Villars, † 1250, their son
- Humbert III, Sire de Thoire et Villars, † 1301, his son, brother of Henri de Thoire et Villars, Archbishop of Lyon 1297-1301, husband of Beatrix of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Odo III. ( Elderly House Burgundy )
- Humbert IV., 1302 Sire de Thoire et Villars, † 1336, his son, brother of Louis de Thoire et Villars, Archbishop of Lyon 1301-1308, husband of Éléonore de Beaujeu, daughter of Louis I. de Beaujeu ( House of Albon )
- Humbert V, his son, vassal of the King of France in 1335, Seigneur de Villars in 1336, brother of Henri de Thoire et Villars, Archbishop of Lyon 1343-1354
- Humbert VI., Sire de Thoire et Villars, * 1342/43, † 1423, his son, husband of Maria von Geneva, daughter of Amadeus III. , Count of Geneva , and sister of Antipope Clement VII.
- Humbert VII. , † 1400, his son, 1394 Count of Geneva
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Odon de Thoire et Villars , † 1413/18, nephew of Humbert V, titular count of Geneva in 1491
- Éléonore de Thoire et Villars, † 1400, sister of Humbert VI., Wife of Philippe III. de Lévis, Viscount de Lautrec, † before 1380
House Lévis
- Philippe IV. De Lévis, 1380-1440 attested, 1400 Viscount de Lautrec, 1432 Savoyard 1st Comte de Villars, son of Eléonore de Thoire-Villars and Philippe III. de Lévis
- Antoine I. de Lévis, † 1462, 1441 Viscount de Lautrec, 2nd Comte de Villars etc., his son
- Jean de Lévis, † 1474, Vicomte de Lautrec until 1466, 3rd Comte de Villars until 1469, his son
- Antoine II. De Lévis, † after 1496, 1474 4th Comte de Villars, his brother
House of Savoy
- René de Savoie , † 1525, 1st Comte de Villars (1500), illegitimate son (legitimized in 1497) of Duke Philip II of Savoy , husband of Anna Laskaris , heiress of the County of Tende
- Honorat de Savoie , † 1580, Comte de Villars, then 1st Marquis de Villars (1565), Come de Tende (1572), his son, Marshal of France
- Henriette de Savoie-Villars , † 1611, Marquise de Villars, his daughter, wife of Melchior de Prez, Seigneur de Montpezat, and Charles II. De Lorraine, duc de Mayenne ( House of Guise )
More families
- Emmanuel-Philibert des Prez, † after 1621, Marquis de Villars, their son
- Madeleine des Prez, † before 1598, his sister, ⚭ 1583 Rostaing / Honorat de La Baume de Suze, son of François de La Baume , Comte de Suze
- Jacques Honorat de La Baume, Comte de Suze, Marquis de Villars, their son; his only son died unmarried
- Louis de La Baume de Suze , † 1690, Bishop of Viviers , half-brother of Jacques-Honorat (not a descendant of Madeleine des Prez), sold the Marquisat de Villars to an adviser to the king in 1666; further sales bring the title and property to different families until the revolution .
literature
- Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume XIV, 1991, Plate 191A (Villars), 192 (Thoire et Villars), 94 (Lévis)
- Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables , Volume III.3, 1952, Plate 423b (Savoy)
- Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange, Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du XIXe siècle , Volume 3, 1904, p. 99f (La Baume de Suze)
Remarks
- ↑ Marcel Pacaut and Pierre Guichard: Papauté, monachisme et théories politiques , Vol. 2, p. 772. Presses universitaires, Lyon, 1992.
- ↑ Louis Aubret and Marie Claude Guigue: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Dombes , Vol. 1, p. 458. J.-C. Damour, Trévoux, 1868.
- ^ William Duckett: Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture , Vol. 7, Michel Lévy frères, Paris, 1854.
- ↑ Georges Debombourg: Analysis historique des archives communales du Bugey , Vol. 1, afterword p. 10f. Auguste Arène, Nantua, 1855.
- ^ Samuel Guichenon: Histoire généalogique de la royale maison de Savoie , vol. 3, p. 239. Jean-Michel Briolo, Turin, 1778.
- ^ Samuel Guichenon: Histoire de Bresse et du Bugey , p. 169. Jean Antoine Huguetan & Marc Antoine Ravaud, Lyon, 1650.
- ↑ For the details see: Julien Baux, Nobiliaire du département de l'Ain (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) , 1862, pp. 170f