Duchy of Nemours
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
- Jean III de Grailly († 1376), Captal de Buch , 1364 Count of Nemours
Dukes of Nemours
- 1404-1425: Charles III. d'Évreux (* 1361; † 1425), Duke of Nemours, since 1387 King of Navarre
- Beatrice d'Évreux (* around 1392; † before 1415), his daughter; ⚭ Jacques II. De Bourbon-La Marche (* 1370; † 1438)
- 1425–1464: Éléonore de Bourbon (* 1412; † 1464), Duchess of Nemours, Countess of La Marche and Castres, daughter of the previous ones; ⚭ Bernard d'Armagnac (1400–1456), Count of Pardiac ( House of Lomagne )
- 1464–1477: Jacques d'Armagnac (1433–1477), Duke of Nemours and Count Pardiac, participant in the Ligue du Bien public , son of the previous one
- 1477–1487: Domaine royal
- 1484–1500: Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours and Count Pardiac, son of the previous one
- 1500–1503: Louis d'Armagnac (1472–1503), Duke of Nemours and Count Pardiac, brother of the previous one
- 1503: Marguerite d'Armagnac († 1503), 1503 5th Duchess of Nemours, Countess of Guise , daughter of Jacques, 2nd Duke of Nemours; ⚭ Pierre I. de Rohan (1451–1513), Lord of Gié , Count of Marle , Marshal of France , no descendants
- 1503–1504: Charlotte d'Armagnac († 1504), her sister, 1503 6th Duchess of Nemours, Countess of Guise; ⚭ 1504 Charles I. de Rohan , son of Pierre I.
- 1504–1512: Gaston de Foix (* 1489; † 1512), 1507 Duke of Nemours, nephew of Louis XII. ( House Grailly )
- 1512–1516: Giuliano di Lorenzo de 'Medici (* 1479; † 1516)
- 1528–1533: Philippe de Savoie (* 1490; † 1533), Bishop of Geneva, son of Philip II of Savoy
- 1533–1585: Jacques de Savoie (* 1531; † 1585), son of the previous one
- 1585–1595: Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie (* 1567; † 1595), son of the previous one
- 1595–1632: Henri I. de Savoie (* 1572; † 1632), brother of the previous one
- 1632–1641: Louis de Savoie (* 1615; † 1641), son of the previous one
- 1641–1652: Charles Amédée de Savoie (* 1624; † 1652), brother of the previous one
- 1652–1659: Henri II (* 1625; † 1659), Archbishop of Reims, brother of the previous one
- 1659–1689: Domaine royal
- 1689–1701: Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (* 1640; † 1701)
- 1701–1723: Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (* 1674; † 1723)
- 1723–1752: Louis I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (* 1703; † 1752)
- 1752–1785: Louis Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (* 1725; † 1785)
- 1785–1793: Louis-Philippe II. Joseph de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (* 1747; † 1793)
- 1793–1830: Louis-Philippe I (* 1773; † 1850), 1830–1848 King of the French
- 1830–1848: Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours (* 1814; † 1896)
The Duke of Nemours in the novel The Princess of Clèves by Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette is a fictional character .