Duchy of Montpensier
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- For the commune, see Montpensier, Puy-de-Dôme.
The French lordship of Montpensier (named after the village of Montpensier, département of Puy-de-Dôme), located in historical Auvergne, became a countship in the 14th century.
It changed hands from the House of Thiern, to the House of Beaujeau, to the House of Drieux, to the House of Beaujeau again, and finally to the House of Ventadour, before it was sold in 1384 by Bernard and Robert de Ventadour to John, Duke of Berry, whose sons Charles and John were the first two to hold the title of Count of Montpensier.
After their deaths without issue, their younger sister Marie brought the countship to her third husband, John I, Duke of Bourbon (1381–1434). The countship was subsequently held by Louis de Bourbon, the younger son of John and Marie, and by his descendants up to Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, the famous constable, who became duke of Bourbon by his marriage with his cousin, Suzanne de Bourbon, in 1505.
In 1384-1434 and 1505-27, Montpensier followed the succession in Duchy of Auvergne, and from 1434 onwards that of Dauphinate of Auvergne.
Confiscated by King Francis I, the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and to her son Louis (1513–1582), and was erected into a duchy in the peerage of France (duché-pairie) in 1539. Marie, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Montpensier, brought the duchy to her husband Gaston, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII, whom she married in 1626, and their daughter and heiress, known as La Grande Mademoiselle was duchess of Montpensier.
When Mademoiselle Anne died childless, her heir (but an ancestress' Huguenot marriage after being a nun may have been regarded invalid) was Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, the then wife of Duke of Orleans. The title subsequently remained in the Orléans family, and was borne in particular by Antoine Philippe (1775–1807), son of Philippe Egalité, and by Antoine Marie Philippe Louis (1824–1890), son of King Louis-Philippe and father-in-law of King Alphonso XII of Spain. Mademoiselle de Montpensier was a title conferred upon some women of the royal family, namely during the years previous to the French Revolution.
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[edit] Seigneurs of Montpensier (12th century)
- 1: Guy of Thiern, Seigneur of Montpensier
- 2: Agnès of Thiern, Seigneur of Montpensier - daughter who married Humbert IV of Beaujeu, Sire of Beaujeu and Seigneur of Montpensier (Humbert I)
- 3: Guichard I of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier - son
- 4: Guichard II of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier - son
- 5: Humbert II of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier - son
- 6: Jeanne of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier (Jeanne I) - daughter who married Jean II of Drieux, Count of Dreux, Seigneur of Montpensier (Jean I)
- 7: Robert V of Drieux, Seigneur of Montpensier - son
- 8: Jean III of Drieux, Seigneur of Montpensier (Jean II) - brother
- 9: Pierre of Drieux, Seigneur of Montpensier brother
- 10: Jeanne I of Drieux, Seigneur of Montpensier (Jeanne II) - daughter
- 11: Louis I of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier - descendant of a brother of Humbert II of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier
- 12: Marguerite of Beaujeu, Seigneur of Montpensier - daughter who married Ebles VIII of Ventadour, Viscount of Ventadour, Seigneur of Montpensier
- 13: Bernard of Ventadour, Seigneur of Montpensier (1346-1384) - son
[edit] Counts of Montpensier (1384)
- 1: Charles of Valois, Count of Montpensier (1362-1382) - son of John of Valois, Duke of Berry and Auvergne (1340–1416)
- 2: John of Valois, Count of Montpensier (1377–1416) - brother (n.b. the article on John, Duke of Berry gives his dates as 1363-1402)
- 3: Marie of Valois, Countess of Montpensier (1367–1434) - sister who married John I of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier
- 4: Louis I of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier (~1403–1486) - son
- 5: Gilbert of Bourbon-Montpensier, Count of Montpensier (1448–1496) - son
- 6: Louis II of Bourbon-Montpensier, Count of Montpensier (1483–1501) - son
- 7: Charles III of Bourbon-Montpensier, Count of Montpensier (1490–1527) - brother
[edit] Dukes of Montpensier (1539)
- 1: Louise of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duchess of Montpensier (1482–1561) - sister who married Louis I, Duke of Bourbon-Montpensier (1473–1520)
- 2: Louis III of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duke of Montpensier (1513–1582) - son
- 3: Francis of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duke of Montpensier (1542–1592) - son
- 4: Henry of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duke of Montpensier (1573–1608) - son
- 5: Marie II of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duchess of Montpensier (1605–1627) - daughter
- 6: Anne I of Bourbon-Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier (La Grande Mademoiselle) (1627–1693)
- 7: Elisabeth Charlotte of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Orleans (1652-1722) - primogenitural heiress to Charlotte of Bourbon-Montpensier, Princess of Orange, who married Philippe I of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (Le Monsieur) (1640-1701)
- 8: Philippe II of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1674-1723) - son
- 9: Louis IV of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1703-1752) - son
- 10: Louis Philippe I of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1725-1785) - son
- 11: Louis Philippe II of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (Philippe Égalité) (1747-1793) - son
- 12: Louis Antoine Philippe of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1775-1807) - son
- 13: Antoine of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1824-1890) - paternal cousin
- 14: Marie III of Bourbon-Orleans, Duchess op Montpensier (Maria de las Mercedes) (1860-1878) - daughter
- 15: Jean of Bourbon-Orleans, Duke of Montpensier (1874-1940) - title was reclaimed by the House of Bourbon-Orleans after Marie des Graces of Bourbon-Orleans died without issue
- 16: Anne II of Bourbon-Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier (1906-1986) - daughter who married Amedeo I of Savoy-Aoste, Duke of Montpensier (1898-1942)
- 17: Margherita of Savoy-Aosta, Duchess of Montpensier (1930) - daughter who married Robert of Habsburg-Este, Duke of Montpensier (1915-1996)
- 18: Lorenz of Habsburg-Este, Duke of Montpensier (1955) - son
- 19: Amedeo II of Habsburg-Este, Duke of Montpensier (1986) - son
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
