Duchy of Châteauroux

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The lordship ( Seigneurie ), later county ( Comté ) and duchy of Châteauroux ( Ducé ) was a French feudal territory around the city of Châteauroux in the arrondissement of the same name in what is now the Indre department .

During the Middle Ages, the lords of Châteauroux controlled almost the entire southwest of the Berry ( Bas-Berry ) and recognized the suzerainty of the Dukes of Aquitaine . Since the adjacent Viscount of Bourges , which northeastern Berry ( Haute-Berry dominated), directly to the King of France was assumed Châteauroux a border area between Aquitaine and the royal domain and therefore was often the political tension between the Duke and the King .

The progenitor of the manorial family of Châteauroux was Sire Ebbo I. le Noble von Déols , who defeated the Hungarians invading France in 935 near Orléans and was killed in battle. His son Raoul I. le Large built a castle on a slope on the west bank of the Indre , which is colloquially known as "Château Raoul" because of the name that often appears in the family, and which became the family's new ancestral home. The settlement at the foot of the castle soon developed into a town. Raoul V. Thibaud took part in the first crusade and fell in 1099 at the siege of Antioch . His great-grandson Raoul VII also went on an armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died on the way back on November 27, 1176 in Ravenna . All he left behind was the five-year-old daughter Denise, who was brought to England by Heinrich Plantagenet .

In 1188 King Philip II of France conquered the castle of Châteauroux during his fight against Richard the Lionheart and had it provided with a royal garrison. It was not until 1200 that he gave it back to Denise and her second husband André de Chauvigny , who was once a follower of the Lionheart but then turned against his brother Johann Ohneland . The new gentlemen from Châteauroux were now loyal to the French crown; Guillaume II took part in the seventh crusade of King Louis IX. and died on January 3, 1271 on the way back in Palermo .

During the Hundred Years War , Châteauroux was destroyed by the "black prince" Edward of Woodstock . Only in the middle of the 15th century should the city flourish again. On July 16, 1497 the rule was in favor of André III. de Chauvigny upgraded to a county, but after the death of Andrés III. In 1503 the Aumont and Maillé families fought over his inheritance. Later the county was divided between Hardouin de Maillé de Latour-Landry and Françoise d'Aumont. Henri II. De Condé bought both parts one after the other in 1612 and 1613 and sought refuge here after his first rebellion against the crown. After his submission he obtained the elevation of the county of Châteauroux to a duchy in May 1616, whereby the ducal title was also associated with the dignity of a peer . In 1743 King Louis XV bought from the house of Condé Châteauroux in order to present his mistress Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle with the duchy that same year . But before she even entered the castle of Châteauroux, she died in 1744. From then on, Châteauroux remained in royal possession.

List of the Lords, Counts and Dukes of Châteauroux

House Déols

  • Ebbo I. le Noble ( the noble , † 935), lord of Déols
  • Raoul I. le Large ( the Broad , † 952), son of the predecessor, Lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul II. Le Chauve ( the bald , † 1012), son of the predecessor, lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Eudes I. le Roux ( the red , † after 1045), son of the predecessor, lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul III. le Prudent ( the cruel , † 1057 or later), son of the predecessor, lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul IV. L'Enfant ( the child , † 1058), son of the predecessor, Lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul V. Thibaud († 1099), brother of the predecessor, Lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul VI. le Vieil ( the old man , † 1112 or 1141), son of the predecessor, lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Ebbo II. († 1160), son of the predecessor, Lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Raoul VII († 1176), son of the predecessor, Lord of Déols and Châteauroux
  • Denise († 1221), daughter of the predecessor, mistress of Déols and Châteauroux

House Chauvigny

  • Guillaume I. († 1234), son of Denise and André I. de Chauvigny, lord of Châteauroux
  • Guillaume II. († 1271), son of the predecessor, lord of Châteauroux
  • Guillaume III. († 1322), son of the predecessor, lord of Châteauroux
  • André II († 1356), son of the predecessor, Lord of Châteauroux
  • Guy I. († 1365), son of the predecessor, Lord of Châteauroux and Vice-Count of Brosse
  • Guy II. († 1422), son of the predecessor, Lord of Châteauroux and Vice-Count of Brosse
  • Guy III. († 1483), son of the predecessor, Lord of Châteauroux and Vice-Count of Brosse
  • François I. († 1491) son of the predecessor, Lord of Châteauroux and Vice-Count of Brosse
  • André III. († 1503) son of the predecessor, Lord and Count of Châteauroux

By contract of May 5, 1519 Hardouin de Maillé, cousin Andrés III., U. a. the barony of Châteauroux.

House Maillé

  • Hardouin de Maillé, Viscount de Tours († 1487) ∞ Antoinette de Chauvigny, † 1473, daughter of Guy de Chauvigny, Viscount de Brosse, Seigneur de Châteauroux, and Catherine de Laval
  • Françoise de Maillé († probably 1535), her daughter, Dame de Châteauroux ∞ I Francois de Beaujeu ∞ II 1487 Jean d'Aumont
    • Hardouin de Maille († 1525), their brother
    • Jean de Maillé († 1563), his son, Baron de La Tour-Landry
  • François de Maillé († 1598), his son, Baron de la Tour-Landry, de Châteauroux etc.
  • Charles de Maillé († 1605), his son, Comte de Châteauroux, Baron de La Tour-Landry
  • Jean de Maillé († 1635), his brother, Comte de Châteauroux - descendants a. a. the dukes of Maillé

House Aumont

  • Félix d'Aumont, son of Françoise and Jean d'Aumont, Co-Seigneur de Châteauroux
    • Pierre d'Aumont, Baron d'Estrabonne ∞ Françoise de Sully
  • Jean VI. d'Aumont († 1595), their son, 1573 Count of Châteauroux, 1579 Marshal of France

House of Bourbon-Condé

  • Henri II , († 1646), duc d'Enghien until 1606, 1588 3rd prince de Condé, 1632 duc de Châteauroux, de Montmorency , d ' Albret et de Bellegarde , son of Henri I.
  • Louis II. François († 1686), "le grand Condé", French general, (titular) duc d'Enghien, 1646 4th prince de Condé, 2nd duc de Châteauroux, de Montmorency, d'Albret (until 1661) et de Bellegarde, duc de Fronsac, son of Henri II.
  • Henri III Jules († 1709), 1643–1646 duc d'Albret, 1646–1686 (titular) duc d'Enghien, 1686 5th prince de Condé, 2nd duc de Bourbon, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, son of Louis II
  • Louis III († 1710), 1709 6th prince de Condé, 3rd duc de Bourbon, (titular) duc d'Enghien, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, son of Henri III.
  • Louis IV. Henri († 1740), 1710 4th duc de Bourbon, d'Enghien, de Guise, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, 7th prince de Condé, son of Louis III.
  • Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont († 1771), French cleric and general; Commander in Chief of the Rhine Army in the Seven Years' War ; was defeated in 1758 near Krefeld to the Duke of Braunschweig, the youngest son of Louis III.
  • Louis V. Joseph († 1818), 1740 8th prince de Condé, 5th duc de Bourbon, d'Enghien, de Guise, de Châteauroux, de Montmorency et de Bellegarde, leaders of the emigrant army in the fight against the troops of the republic , Son of Louis IV.