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...

Bourbon. He was the son of Louis I, Count of Montpensier and Gabrielle de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin d'Auvergne. He was appointed...

Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...

Duke of Berry (French: Duc de Berry) or Duchess of Berry (French: Duchesse de Berry) was a title in the Peerage of France. The Duchy of Berry, centred...

only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried...

royal governess Françoise de Montglat. In 1626, at the time of his marriage to the young Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, he received in appanage...

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, prince d’Anet et comte de Dreux, a fait transporter de l’église de Rambouillet dans la collégiale de Saint-Etienne...

Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. The marriage was held on 24 April 1816 in Naples. Caroline thus became Duchesse de Berry; known as Madame de Berry in France. Even...

Charles de Valois, comte de Montpensier (1362–1382) - son of John de Valois, duc de Berry and Auvergne John of Valois, Count of Montpensier (1363–1401)...

obtained for him the title of comte de Folmont. Marie-Adélaïde was never to see her two younger sons again, Montpensier and Beaujolais, who died in exile...

(French: Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord; 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883), was the Legitimist...

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon (16 November 1725 – 4 March 1793) was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was...

intelligent. The Duchess of Montpensier dubbed him the "prettiest child in the world", while his mother's friend and confidant, Madame de Motteville, later said...

│ ├─>Anne (+1408) │ │ │ │ X 1) Jean II de Berry (+1401), comte de Montpensier │ │ │ │ X 2) Louis VII (+1447), duc de Bavière-Ingolstadt │ │ │ │ │ │ │...

of Montpensier (1529–1582) Francis, Duke of Montpensier (1582–1592) Henri de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier (1592–1608) Marie de Bourbon, duchesse de Montpensier...

He was also created Count of Vermandois (comte de Vermandois) and appointed Admiral of France (Amiral de France). The parents of the Count of Vermandois...

François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (16 January 1616 – 25 June 1669) was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent...

comprised the Orléanais, Berry, Beauce, Montargis, and Chartres. The former was granted to the prince du sang the duc de Montpensier, the latter to his younger...

François de Bourbon-Vendôme (1470–1495); 1495–1537: Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme (1489–1537), comte (jure matris), son of the preceding; 1547–1557: Jean de Bourbon-Soissons...

style of the wife of Monsieur. Examples of this were: Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605–1627), first wife of Gaston d'Orléans (Monsieur) and...

of the Kangxi Emperor in 1685: Jean de Fontaney, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis Le Comte, and Claude de Visdelou. Louis also received a...

the Orleanist parties, the former of which supported the cause of Henri, Comte de Chambord, grandson of Charles X, and the latter supported the deposed House...

army of his cousin, the Prince of Condé. In June 1795, his uncle, the comte de Provence, proclaimed himself King Louis XVIII. Later that year, the 20-year-old...

and Savannah. In 1780, France sent Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and François Joseph Paul de Grasse to help the Americans, along...

in which Marie was betrothed to his son Charles of Berry, Count of Montpensier. In order to cover costs, Isabelle ceded to the duke her own Barony of...

inflicted a great defeat on the French. Marmont and his deputy commander Comte Jean-Pierre François Bonet were both struck by shrapnel very early in the battle...

Élisabeth, Duchess of Berry (born Marie Louise Élisabeth, Mademoiselle d'Orléans; 20 August 1695 – 21 July 1719) was Duchess of Berry by marriage to the...

Louis IV de Bueil, Comte de Sancerre, Charlotte who became a nun. Bardet et al. 2000, p. 48. Bardet, Jean-Pierre; Dinet, Dominique; Poussou, Jean-Pierre;...

Victoria, the Queen of Portugal. Charles, Duke of Berry (31 July 1686 – 5 May 1714), Duke of Berry, of Alençon and of Angoulême, Count of Ponthieu; married...

as she and received the title of comte de Toulouse. She remained close to him and their older brother, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine, for her entire...