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    Vidame (French: [vidam]) was a feudal title in France, a term descended from mediaeval Latin vicedominus. Like the avoué or advocatus, the vidame was...
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    Vidame de Chartres was a title in the French nobility. There are a few vidame titles in France, of which that of Chartres is probably the best known,...
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    François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres (1522 – 22 December 1560), was a successful soldier and glamorous courtier who figures in accounts of the brilliant...
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    La Ferté-Vidame (French pronunciation: [la fɛʁte vidam]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. The Commune along with another...
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    de Sancerre. Vidame de Chartres – The uncle of the Princess de Clèves and a friend of the Duke de Nemours. The Duke often uses the Vidame as a way to contact...
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    coronet of four large pearls (three visible) alternating with smaller pearls Vidame (peculiar French title, for protectors of the temporal estates of a bishopric):...
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  • Jean-Baptiste DuBarry, comte du Barry-Cérès, vidame de Châlons en Champagne (1723 - 17 January 1794) was a French nobleman. He is most notable as the lover...
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    Ferté-Vidame, bought by his father shortly after his elevation to the dukedom. The castle brought with it the ancient, entailed title, Vidame de Chartres...
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    Meslay-le-Vidame (French pronunciation: [mɛlɛ lə vidam]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. The lords of Meslay held the title...
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  • various members of the House of Vendôme, in particular: François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres (1522–1560), French soldier and courtier Francis, Count of Enghien...
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  • Tarragona" (princeps Tarraconensis), effectively the archiepiscopate's vidame or defensor (defender, advocate). His position in Tarragona he maintained...
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  • département Meslay-le-Grenet, in the Eure-et-Loir département Meslay-le-Vidame, in the Eure-et-Loir département This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    cerebral hemorrhage while on a hunting trip on November 9, 1925, at La Ferté-Vidame near Chartres, at the age of 51. His wife committed suicide three days later...
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    been untitled, and some hereditary titles do not indicate nobility (e.g., vidame). Some countries have had non-hereditary nobility, such as the Empire of...
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    secular interests of a part of the church; compare the French title of vidame. In the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley, Britain becomes a republic with...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    Saint-Simon, who wrote Memoirs at his family's home at the castle of La Ferté-Vidame. While Saint-Simon was considered a writer possessing a high level of skill...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    any rank. Duc (duke) Marquis (marquess) Comte (count) Vicomte (viscount) Vidame: a rare title, always with the name of a diocese, as their origin was as...
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    of Auge in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lisieux, and Jean de Picquigni, vidame of Amiens, to make an investigation, which lasted several months. Philip’s...
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  • Régiment Ecossais (Scotland) Régiment de Watteville (Swiss) Régiment de Vidame Régiment de Veruins et la Pree Right Wing      Jean, Comte de Gassion Jean...
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  • Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    bastard of Burgundy (died 3 November 1470), who married Jean d'Ailly, Vidame of Amiens in 1456  Burgundian State : 1st Grand Master and Knight of the...
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    in the Loire Valley Château at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire Château de La Ferté-Vidame, this château was home to the sharp-penned memorialist, Saint-Simon, who...
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    Countess Earl Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Lord paramount Overlord Tenant in chief Territorial...
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    Lusignan (b. bef. 1055), married before 1074 to Simon I "l'Archevêque", Vidame de Parthenay Almodis and Hugh of Lusignan divorced due to consanguinity...
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  • Prince de Clèves) Esteban Carvajal Alegria as Matthias de Chartres (The Vidame de Chartres) Agathe Bonitzer as Marie Valois (Mary, Queen of Scots married...
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