of 723. Controlled twelve counties and the Diocese of Le Mans Grifo (748–749) – given the twelve counties ofMaine 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 countsanddukesof Anjou in the 11-16th...
elevated to a dukedom and peerage of France for him. The Dukesof Guise and their sons played a prominent role in the French Wars of Religion, during which...
kings of France, the dukesof Normandy, and the church of Reims. 975-995 Odo I, Countof Blois, († 995), Countof Chartres, and Reims (982-995), son of the...
appointed Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, as its first margrave. At the time, the premier counts in the region were the countsof Arles and those of Avignon. Those...
List of CountsanddukesofMaine, 8th–18th c., centered in Le Mans other cities in the Pays de la Loire region Timeline of Angers Timeline of Nantes Britannica...
Hereditary dukes were sometimes a female ruler, carrying the title duchesse of Brittany. Its principal cities and regions were ruled by counts who often...
non-Capetian peer was the Countof Flanders. The Montfort dukesof Brittany, the houses of Évreux and Bourbon, and the princes of the House of Valois, constituted...
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...
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...
Poitou and later acquired Aquitaine. Gauzbert, (d. 893) Ebalus (d.892) abbot of St. Germain-des-Pres and St. Hilary of Poitiers Ramnulfids Dukesof Aquitaine...
d'oïl spoken in Anjou CountsandDukesof Anjou House of Ingelger, a Frankish noble family who were countsof Anjou between the 10th and 12th centuries, their...
semi-independent regions. The Robertians, after becoming countsof Paris anddukesof France, became kings themselves and established the Capetian dynasty after 987...
House of Montfort, a French noble house, extinct in the 14th century Lords, countsanddukesof 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...
both king of Western Francia and ruled during the Carolingian era. His daughter Richildis married a countof Troyes. The family became Countsof Paris under...
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...