Duchy of Estouteville
The former Duchy of Estouteville in Upper Normandy was founded in 1534 by King Francis I in favor of Adrienne d'Estouteville of the House of Estouteville , wife of François de Bourbon, Count of Saint-Pol , son of François de Bourbon, comte de Vendôme and Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol. The basis of the duchy was the lordship of Estouteville (Seine-Maritime) .
The duchy was inherited within the House of Orléans-Longueville until Marie d'Orléans, Duchess of Nemours, died in 1707.
Dukes of Estouteville
- Adrienne d'Estouteville (1512–1560), 1537 Duchess of Estouteville, ∞
- François de Bourbon (1491–1545), Count of Saint-Pol, 1537 Duke of Estouteville
- François de Bourbon (1536–1546), their son, 1545 Duke of Estouteville
- Marie de Bourbon (1539–1601), his sister, 1546 Duchess of Estouteville, ∞ I 1557 Jean de Bourbon (1528–1557), Count of Soissons , ∞ II 1561, divorced 1561 François I de Clèves, duc de Nevers (1516 –1562), ∞ III 1563 Léonor d'Orléans (1540–1573), Duke of Longueville , 1563 Duke of Estouteville
- Henri d'Orléans (1568–1595), Duke of Longueville, whose son from third marriage
- Henri d'Orléans (1595–1663), his son, Duke of Longueville and Estouteville etc.
- Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans (1646–1694), his son, Duke of Longueville and Estouteville etc.
- Charles Paris d'Orléans (1649–1672), his brother, Duke of Longueville and Estouteville etc.
- Marie d'Orléans (1625–1707), his sister, 1672 Duchess of Longueville, widow of Henri II. De Savoie , Duke of Nemours (1625–1659)
With the death of Duchess Marie, the title of duke passed to the Goyon-Matignon family as descendants of Eleonore d'Orléans, the youngest daughter of Léonor d'Orléans and Marie de Bourbon. Her descendant Jacques François Léonor Goyon de Matignon (1689-1751), Count of Thorigny and Lord of the Duchy of Estouteville, married Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi in 1715 , who in 1731 inherited the Principality of Monaco . The claim to Estouteville was thus passed on within the Monegasque princely house until it expired in 1949 with the death of Prince Louis II , as he had no legitimate offspring. Nevertheless, the title of Louis' successors, the Princes Rainier III. and Albert II continued.
literature
- François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire de la noblesse