Duchy of Nemours

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The Duchy of Nemours was a hereditary French duchy ( duché-pairie ), which in 1404 for Charles III. d'Évreux was built.

In the 12th and 13th centuries the Seigneurie Nemours was owned by the House of Villebon, whose member Gauthier III. de Nemours became Marshal of France in 1257 . The rule was in 1274 and 1276 by Jean and Philippe, the brothers of the Marshal, who died childless, to Philip III. sold. In 1364 she was raised to a county and Jean III. de Grailly , Captal de Buch given to fief .

In 1404 Charles VI. Nemours to Charles III. d'Évreux, King of Navarre , and elevated the area to duchy and peerage . Charles III's daughter, Beatrice, brought the duchy into marriage to her husband, Jacques II. De Bourbon , Count of La Marche , and through the marriage of their daughter Eleanor to Bernard d'Armagnac , Count of Pardiac , she came to the House of Armagnac .

After it was confiscated and rebuilt several times, the Duchy of Nemours fell back to the crown in 1503 after the Armagnac-Pardiac family had died out, whereupon Louis XII. gave it to his nephew Gaston de Foix in 1507 . After his death near Ravenna in 1512, Francis I gave it to Giuliano di Lorenzo de 'Medici , the husband of his aunt Philiberta of Savoy, in 1515 .

Completed again in 1528, it was given by Francis I to Philip of Savoy , his mother's brother. The female descendants of the House of Savoy-Nemours, which died out in male line in 1659, sold it to Louis XIV in 1666 , who gave it to his brother Philippe d'Orléans in 1672 , whose descendants owned it until the French Revolution in 1789.

King Louis-Philippe gave his second son, Louis , the title of Duke of Nemours.

During the February Revolution of 1848 , the title was finally abolished.

Counts of Nemours

Dukes of Nemours

The Duke of Nemours in the novel The Princess of Clèves by Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette is a fictional character .