of 723. Controlled twelve counties and the Diocese of Le Mans Grifo (748–749) – given the twelve counties of Maine by his brother, Pepin the Short, as...

Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th...

to Portland, Maine The Maine Oyster Bar & Grill, a Dubai-based brasserie Counts and Dukes of Maine Main (disambiguation) Maine Coon Maine law, an 1851...

History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press. Counts and Dukes of Anjou Counts and Dukes of Maine Counts of Provence...

Several counts and then royal dukes of Alençon have figured in French history. The title has been awarded to a younger brother of the French sovereign...

in Château-Gontier Panoramic view of Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne Counts and Dukes of Maine Nègre, Ernest (1990). Toponymie générale de la France. Librairie...

elevated to a dukedom and peerage of France for him. The Dukes of Guise and their sons played a prominent role in the French Wars of Religion, during which...

Duke of Burgundy Counts and Dukes of Étampes Dukes of Gascony Duc de Guise Duke of Lorraine Counts and Dukes of Maine Counts and Dukes of Montpensier Duc...

kings of France, the dukes of Normandy, and the church of Reims. 975-995 Odo I, Count of Blois, († 995), Count of Chartres, and Reims (982-995), son of the...

of the House of Bourbon-Maine through the duc du Maine's younger brother, the comte de Toulouse) Second house of Bourbon-Vendôme (extinct) Counts and...

appointed Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, as its first margrave. At the time, the premier counts in the region were the counts of Arles and those of Avignon. Those...

son of Fulk V of Anjou and his first wife, Eremburga, daughter of Count Elias I of Maine. There is debate as to whether he was ever count of Maine or whether...

The county of Perche was a medieval county lying between Normandy and Maine. It was held by an independent line of counts until 1226. One of these, Geoffroy...

Hereditary dukes were sometimes a female ruler, carrying the title duchesse of Brittany. Its principal cities and regions were ruled by counts who often...

and Duchesses of Anjou were the wives of the ruling counts of Anjou and later the nominal French counts and dukes of Anjou. None None None Most dukes...

List of Counts and dukes of Maine, 8th–18th c., centered in Le Mans other cities in the Pays de la Loire region Timeline of Angers Timeline of Nantes Britannica...

Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144...

non-Capetian peer was the Count of Flanders. The Montfort dukes of Brittany, the houses of Évreux and Bourbon, and the princes of the House of Valois, constituted...

west, Demoriel in the north and Caspiel in the south); and sixteen dukes are tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, and additional directions between...

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (31 March 1670 – 14 May 1736) was an illegitimate son of Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan...

semi-independent regions. The Robertians, after becoming counts of Paris and dukes of France, became kings themselves and established the Capetian dynasty after 987...

eldest son Charles III. Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Alençon of the House of Valois Coat of arms of the counts of Perche de Venette 1953, p. 312...

d'oïl spoken in Anjou Counts and Dukes of Anjou House of Ingelger, a Frankish noble family who were counts of Anjou between the 10th and 12th centuries, their...

Counts who reigned over the county of Meaux include: c. 750: Helmgaud. 787: Richard, appeared in an inventory of Abbey of Saint Wandrille after the death...

House of Montfort, a French noble house, extinct in the 14th century Lords, counts and dukes of Montfort-l'Amaury, fief originally held by the House of Montfort...

The dukes had the same autonomy as the earlier counts, but the duchy was increasingly administered in the same fashion as the royal domain and the royal...

Poitou and later acquired Aquitaine. Gauzbert, (d. 893) Ebalus (d.892) abbot of St. Germain-des-Pres and St. Hilary of Poitiers Ramnulfids Dukes of Aquitaine...

both king of Western Francia and ruled during the Carolingian era. His daughter Richildis married a count of Troyes. The family became Counts of Paris under...

Montespan. He was the last member of the legitimised house of Maine branch of the House of Bourbon, a legitimised, cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. Born...

the first marquis Alberto (d.1002) and the two Alberto Azzo, for which he may have counted them as Alberto II and Alberto III. Last document from 1184...