House of Rochechouart
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The House of Limoges-Rochechouart is the most ancient noble family in France after the royal family. This powerful dynasty of the Carolingian
Carolingian
The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...
era dates back to Foucher, supporter of Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith.-Struggle against his brothers:He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, when his elder...
, who became viscount (vicomte) of Limoges
Limoges
Limoges |Limousin]] dialect of Occitan) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousin région in west-central France....
in 876. His descendents—Limoges, Rochechouart, Mortemart and de Brosse
Jean de Brosse
Jean de Brosse , Lord of Boussac, Sainte-Sévère, Huriel, and Perugia, was a councillor and chamberlain to Charles VII of France; he was made a Marshal of France in 1426.-Early life:...
—ruled over the area for several centuries, providing many different French regimes with politicians, soldiers, functionaries and other figures. It is named after the town of Rochechouart
Rochechouart
Rochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....
.
Origins
Foucher de Limoges, the founder of the House of Limoges-Rochechouart, was the second son of Raymond IRaymond I of Toulouse
Raymond I was the Count of Limoges , Rouergue and Quercy , and Toulouse and Albi . He was the younger son of Fulcoald of Rouergue and Senegund, niece of William of Gellone through his sister Alda....
, count of Toulouse
Counts of Toulouse
The first Counts of Toulouse were the administrators of the city and its environs under the Merovingians. No succession of such royal appointees is known, though a few names survive to the present...
, and of Berteys, daughter of Rémi. The viscounts of Limoges and of Rochechouart were thus descended from the counts of Rouergue
Counts of Rouergue
This is a list of the counts of Rouergue.*Gilbert c. 790 – c. 810 or 820*Fulcoald c. 810 or 820 – c. 836 or 849*Raymond I c. 836 or 849 – 864*Fredol c...
and probably from the counts of Autun and from Théodoric, who founded the Autun dynasty c. 730.
The first viscounts
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith.-Struggle against his brothers:He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, when his elder...
, was rewarded for his services in the king's wars by being granted the Viscountcy of Limoges, which extended into Limousin
Limousin (province)
Limousin is one of the traditional provinces of France around the city of Limoges. Limousin lies in the foothills of the western edge of the Massif Central, with cold weather in the winter...
and Berry
Berry (province)
Berry is a region located in the center of France. It was a province of France until the provinces were replaced by départements on 4 March 1790....
. Foucher was crowned as viscount in 876 in Limoges
Limoges
Limoges |Limousin]] dialect of Occitan) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousin région in west-central France....
and started minting his own coinage. The promulgation of the Capitulary of Quierzy
Capitulary of Quierzy
The Capitulary of Quierzy , was a capitulary of the emperor Charles II, comprising a series of measures for safeguarding the administration of his realm during his second Italian expedition, as well as directions for his son Louis the Stammerer, who was entrusted with the government during his...
the following year simultaneously freed the lords up from royal authority and made their titles and charge
Charge (heraldry)
In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon . This may be a geometric design or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device...
s hereditary, thus giving birth to the French feudal system. Like other lords, the viscount of Limoges became an autonomous territory, administered by viscount Foucher. On his death, in 886, his son Hildebert became lord of Limoges, and then Hildebert's son Hildegaire, then Hildebert's grandson Géraud, establishing in a lasting way the dynasty of viscounts in their fiefdom of Limoges.
Around 1000
At the end of the first millennium, the lords of Limoges reinforced their authority over the city which had considerably enlarged itself under the privileges of the cult of Saint MartialSaint Martial
Saint Martial was the first bishop of Limoges in today's France, according to a lost vita of Saturnin, first bishop of Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours quotes in his History of the Franks.-Life:...
. The three great centres of power - the castle, the bishopric, and the abbey
Abbey
An abbey is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey,...
- were held onto by Foucher's descendents, and it was under their aegis that the hagiography
Hagiography
Hagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...
of the city's patron saint was written. Thus arose the "miracle du mal des ardents": in 994, a terrible epidemic transmitted through the rye
Rye
Rye is a grass grown extensively as a grain and as a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, rye beer, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder...
fell upon the city. The relics of the saint were exposed across the city and the evil ceased. The power of the viscounts, allied as it was to the religious authorities. ended up reinforced. However, at the end of the 11th century, viscount Adémar II (in exchange for a large sum) gave the abbey of Saint-Martial to the Cluniac order despite opposition from its monks, who were driven out. This event marked the beginning of a rivalry between the castle and the town which broke out most markedly in the 1105 fire of Limoges, commanded by viscount Adémar III. Despite everything, the bishop's cause was boosted as a result of the fire, and the viscount was condemned to rebuilding the city.
The viscounts of Limoges after Adémar III
On his death in 1139, Adémar III had a daughter, Brunissende, but no more male heirs. Therefore the viscountcy of Limoges passed to Guy de Comborn, Adémar's son-in-law, though Foucher's line continued via the viscounts of Rochechouart. Until 1290, the viscountcy of Limoges was held by the house of Comborn, then passed to the House of Dreux-Bretagne (1290–1384), to the House of Blois-ChâtillonHouse of Châtillon
The House of Châtillon was a notable French family, with origins in the 9th century and surviving until 1762. The name comes from a county in Champagne, with its capital in Châtillon-sur-Marne and branches in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Blois, Penthièvre, Chartres, etc.The counts of Châtillon added to...
(1384–1481), and finally to the House of Albret
Albret
The lordship of Albret , situated in the Landes, gave its name to one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the Middle Ages...
(1484–1572). On the death of Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne III of Navarre
Jeanne d'Albret , also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, and was the mother of Henry of Bourbon, who became King of Navarre and of France as Henry IV, the first Bourbon king...
, viscountess of Limoges, in 1572, the title descended upon Henry
Henry IV of France
Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....
, king of Navarre, the future Henry IV. In 1607, the viscountcy was once and for all re-assigned to the house of Couronne. Nevertheless, in 1661, Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
authorised count François de Rochechouart to take the arms and title of the counts of Limoges, as a descendent in the direct and male line from Foucher of Limoges. Since that date, the title of count of Limoges has fallen upon the 'chef d'armes' (inheritor) of the House of Rochechouart.
First viscounts and the Crusades
Counts and dukes of Angoulême
Angoulême in western France was part of the Carolingian Empire as the kingdom of Aquitaine. Under Charlemagne's successors, the local Count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1307. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny the Angoumois, then ruled by the...
. Her dowry included the lands of Rochechouart and so Aimery became Aimery I, viscount of Rochechouart. He ruled for more than half a century over this fiefdom and his son, Aimery II, succeeded him on his death in 1036, only to be assassinated in 1049 by an enemy in unclear circumstances. Aimery II was succeeded by his son Aimery III, then by his grandson Aimery IV. Aimery IV participated in the First Crusade
First Crusade
The First Crusade was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem...
and at the capture of Jerusalem
Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
The Siege of Jerusalem took place from June 7 to July 15, 1099 during the First Crusade. The Crusaders stormed and captured the city from Fatimid Egypt.-Background:...
in 1099 beside Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon was a medieval Frankish knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087...
. His son Aimery V imitated him, accompanying king Louis VII
Louis VII of France
Louis VII was King of France, the son and successor of Louis VI . He ruled from 1137 until his death. He was a member of the House of Capet. His reign was dominated by feudal struggles , and saw the beginning of the long rivalry between France and England...
on the Second Crusade
Second Crusade
The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade by Baldwin of Boulogne in 1098...
.
The legend of Alix and the lion
Aimery VI succeeded his father around 1170. He fortified the city of RochechouartRochechouart
Rochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....
and founded a castle
Château de Rochechouart
Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.- Background :...
there, of which the keep survives today. His son, Aimery VII, who succeeded him in 1230, was (with his wife Alix) the protagonist in an adventure known as "Alix and the lion", reported by abbot Duléry. Alix was an exceptionally beautiful and virtuous wife and, when the castle's intendant conceived a violent passion for her, she rebuffed his advances. To avenge himself, he pretended to swap roles with the viscount and, enraged at this, Aimery shut Alix in prison with a lion. A few days later, he went to check on her and found Alix alive and the lion sleeping by her side. Aimery needed no more convincing of his wife's innocence and so shut up the intendant with the starving lion instead, who instantly devoured the attendant!
A democracy ahead of its time
At the end of the 13th century, Aimery XI renounced a large part of his privileges in promulgating a charterCharter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified...
of enfranchisement which transformed Rochechouart into a democratic city, and turned its inhabitants from slaves to the state into citizens. The city was from then on governed by 4 consuls who chose their own successors, without their lord's intervention. At the same time the viscount suppressed all direct tax
Tax
To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities...
es such as the "taille
Taille
The taille was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household and based on how much land it held.-History:Originally only an "exceptional" tax The taille was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien...
" and the "quête" and abolished duties of service to the feudal lord. He also accorded the inhabitants of Rochechouart the essential conditions for total liberty - they could dispose of their goods, buy or sell, import and export whatever they wanted, build, move about freely within the viscountcy, all without intervention from their lord. The Charter of Aimery XI was very advanced for its times, and - despite pressure from the other lords in the region, who considered Aimery a dangerous revolutionary - it remained in force until 1789.
The Hundred Years' War
The repudiation of Eleanor of AquitaineEleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages. As well as being Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she was queen consort of France and of England...
by Louis VII
Louis VII of France
Louis VII was King of France, the son and successor of Louis VI . He ruled from 1137 until his death. He was a member of the House of Capet. His reign was dominated by feudal struggles , and saw the beginning of the long rivalry between France and England...
, and her remarriage in 1153 to Henri II of England began a period of three centuries of Anglo-French wars in south-west France, during which the Rochechouarts paid a heavy price. Despite continual threats from English troops, the viscounts of Rochechouart remained loyal to the king of France. Aimery VI paid homage
Homage (medieval)
Homage in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position . It was a symbolic acknowledgment to the lord that the vassal was, literally, his man . The oath known as...
in 1226 to the young Louis IX
Louis IX of France
Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and...
on his accession to the throne. Aimery IX accompanied Philip III
Philip III of France
Philip III , called the Bold , was the King of France, succeeding his father, Louis IX, and reigning from 1270 to 1285. He was a member of the House of Capet.-Biography:...
to the Ost de Foix in 1271 and on the Aragon expedition in 1283. Viscount Simon fought in 1304 on the side of Philip IV
Philip IV of France
Philip the Fair was, as Philip IV, King of France from 1285 until his death. He was the husband of Joan I of Navarre, by virtue of which he was, as Philip I, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne from 1284 to 1305.-Youth:A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of...
, playing a major part in the French victory in Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
. His son Jean, who married a descendent of Louis IX, imitated Simon in 1328 on the expedition sent into Flanders by Philip VI
Philip VI of France
Philip VI , known as the Fortunate and of Valois, was the King of France from 1328 to his death. He was also Count of Anjou, Maine, and Valois from 1325 to 1328...
.
The family's devotion to the French crown left Rochechouart itself dangerously exposed throughout the Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...
. Viscount Jean fought at the battle of Crécy
Battle of Crécy
The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 near Crécy in northern France, and was one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War...
in 1346, surviving its decimation of the French nobility. In the wake of this defeat, the English king's captain Henry of Lancaster
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Leicester and Lancaster, KG , also Earl of Derby, was a member of the English nobility in the 14th century, and a prominent English diplomat, politician, and soldier...
used his troops to devastate Poitou and its environs. Rochechouart resisted him for several days before falling to him, and the city was sacked and occupied in 12 days, with 600 people killed. Ten years later, in 1356, Jean was killed in the carnage of the battle of Poitiers
Battle of Poitiers (1356)
The Battle of Poitiers was fought between the Kingdoms of England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt....
whilst interposing himself to save the life of John II
John II of France
John II , called John the Good , was the King of France from 1350 until his death. He was the second sovereign of the House of Valois and is perhaps best remembered as the king who was vanquished at the Battle of Poitiers and taken as a captive to England.The son of Philip VI and Joan the Lame,...
. The following year the
Treaty of Brétigny
Treaty of Brétigny
The Treaty of Brétigny was a treaty signed on May 9, 1360, between King Edward III of England and King John II of France. In retrospect it is seen as having marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War —as well as the height of English hegemony on the Continent.It was signed...
granted Poitou and Limousin to the crown of England. Rochechouart was thus delivered up to the English in 1362. Nevertheless, Jean's son Louis refused to submit to the troops of Edward III
Edward III of England
Edward III was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe...
and the Black Prince and was imprisoned by the latter in 1364. When he was freed, he rushed to the court of Charles V
Charles V of France
Charles V , called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380 and a member of the House of Valois...
to renew his allegiance and rejoin Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand du Guesclin , known as the Eagle of Brittany or the Black Dog of Brocéliande, was a Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was Constable of France from 1370 to his death...
's troops. Reprisals for this came swiftly, with English troops allied to local French lords unsuccessfully laying siege to Rochechouart, recaptured several times by the viscounts. The town and castle's fortifications remained unbroken, but the surrounding lands were pillaged and devastated. The French king himself sympathised and granted the viscount the châtellenie of Rochefort
Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Rochefort is a commune in southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a sub-prefecture of the Charente-Maritime department.-History:...
. Louis de Rochechouart, councillor and chamberlain of Charles V, and his lieutenant in Limousin, fought on Du Guesclin's side in the reconquest of Poitou in 1372-1373.
On the way to the throne
Charles VI of France
Charles VI , called the Beloved and the Mad , was the King of France from 1380 to 1422, as a member of the House of Valois. His bouts with madness, which seem to have begun in 1392, led to quarrels among the French royal family, which were exploited by the neighbouring powers of England and Burgundy...
, Charles VII
Charles VII of France
Charles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent, the Duke of Bedford, ruled much of France including the capital, Paris...
and Louis XI
Louis XI of France
Louis XI , called the Prudent , was the King of France from 1461 to 1483. He was the son of Charles VII of France and Mary of Anjou, a member of the House of Valois....
. By their marriages, they expanded their territories, receiving the fiefdoms of Berry and Poitou. Jean II married Eléonore de Mathefelon, whose mother was of the "sang royal". Within the king's armies, the viscounts were "chevaliers bannerets", at the head of important troops of knights, horsemen and men at arms. Supporters of the crown of France during the civil war which marked the reign of Charles VI, they participated in the great battles of the Hundred Years' War during that century - Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 , near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France...
and the campaigns of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
, to whom Geoffroi was a companion. Geoffroi's son Foucaud was named governor of La Rochelle
La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...
and the Aunis
Aunis
Aunis is a historical province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime. Its historic capital is La Rochelle, which took over from Castrum Allionis the historic capital which gives its name to the province....
region, a post of capital importance whilst the expulsion of the English continued in Guyenne
Guyenne
Guyenne or Guienne , , ; Occitan Guiana ) is a vaguely defined historic region of south-western France. The Province of Guyenne, sometimes called the Province of Guyenne and Gascony, was a large province of pre-revolutionary France....
. Made a knight of the Ordre du Porc-Épic, a chivalric order of only 24 members instituted by Charles d'Orléans, he participated in 1453 at the capture of Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
and the Battle of Castillon
Battle of Castillon
The Battle of Castillon of 1453 was the last battle fought between the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War. It resulted in a decisive French victory.-Context:...
which marked the French monarchy's reconquest of south-western France and the definitive victory of France over England in the Hundred Years' War.
The affair of the cut-off hand
Foucaud only had one child by his marriage, his daughter Anne. Thanks to her family's antiquity and fortune, she was one of the most beautiful women in France. Despite the viscount's reluctance, in 1470 she married Jean de Pontville, chamberlain of Charles de FranceCharles de Valois, Duc de Berry
Charles de Valois, Duke of Berry was a son of Charles VII, King of France. He spent most of his life in conflict with his elder brother, King Louis XI of France.-Life:...
, duke of Guyenne and brother of Louis XI
Louis XI of France
Louis XI , called the Prudent , was the King of France from 1461 to 1483. He was the son of Charles VII of France and Mary of Anjou, a member of the House of Valois....
. The marriage served the political interests of the king of France and his brother (who hated each other) and so they put strong pressure on Foucaud to accept the marriage. Thus, as the viscountcy of Limoges had done three-hundred years earlier, the viscountcy of Rochechouart left the line of Foucher of Limoges, although this was continued by the lords of Bourdet and lords of Le Chandenier, two branches via cousins.
Jean and Anne of Pontville had one son, François, who became famous for an affair that was widely-trumpeted during the era. In 1513, when François de Pontville had set out to take part in a hunt, a friend of his, Bermondet de Cromières, came to visit him at the château de Rochechouart. Well known for his beautiful hands, Bermondet was received by the countess but, after waiting for François for a long time, he returned home. On François's return, the viscountess informed him of Bermondet's visit, all the while praising his elegant manners and beautiful hands. François was jealous and impulsive in character, and so set out immediately with some men in pursuit of his friend. Bermondet came out to greet François and his knights but, in François's sight, the knights fell on Bermondet and killed him with blows from their poignard
Poignard
Poignard, or poniard, , refers to a long, lightweight thrusting knife with a continuously tapering, acutely pointed blade and crossguard, historically worn by the upper class, noblemen, or the knighthood...
s. François then got off his horse, cut off one of his victim's hands, put it in a box and returned to the castle, covered in blood and dust, to offer it to his wife with the retort "Madame, here is the object of your idolatry. It's the beautiful hand of the Marquis of Cromières!" The Parliament of Paris took up the matter, condemning François de Pontville and his accomplices to death.
The affair of the "chevalier de Jars"
After Foucaud, the Rochechouarts continued to serve the crown of France, notably during the Italian WarsItalian Wars
The Italian Wars, often referred to as the Great Italian Wars or the Great Wars of Italy and sometimes as the Habsburg–Valois Wars, were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the city-states of Italy, the Papal States, most of the major states of Western...
of the 16th century. In 1508 viscount François was made governor of Gênes
Gênes
Gênes is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the city of Genoa. It was formed in 1805, when Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the Republic of Genoa. Its capital was Genoa, and it was divided in the arrondissements of Genoa, Bobbio, Novi Ligure, Tortona and...
by Francis I
Francis I of France
Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...
. Viscount François's son Christophe was taken prisoner with the king at the Battle of Pavia
Battle of Pavia
The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26.A Spanish-Imperial army under the nominal command of Charles de Lannoy attacked the French army under the personal command of Francis I of France in the great hunting preserve...
in 1525. In 1530 their cousin Antoine was a commander at the defence of Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
against Charles V
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
- he was killed at the battle of Cérisoles in 1544. René fought on the Duke of Guise
Francis, Duke of Guise
Francis de Lorraine II, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Duke of Aumale , called Balafré , was a French soldier and politician.-Early life:...
's side in the re-capture of England's last continental possession, Calais
Calais
Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....
, in 1558 and received the collar of the Order of the Holy Spirit
Order of the Holy Spirit
The Order of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Order of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, was an Order of Chivalry under the French Monarchy. It should not be confused with the Congregation of the Holy Ghost or with the Order of the Holy Ghost...
in 1580. Jean-Louis participated in the 1627 Siege of La Rochelle
Siege of La Rochelle
The Siege of La Rochelle was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627-1628...
under the command of Cardinal Richelieu.
Jean-Louis's nephew François, also called the chevalier de Jars, was admitted to the inner circle of Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria was Queen consort of France and Navarre, regent for her son, Louis XIV of France, and a Spanish Infanta by birth...
, making him suspect in the Cardinal's eyes. After the Day of the Dupes
Day of the Dupes
Day of the Dupes is the name given to the day in November of 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading Louis XIII, King of France, to dismiss Richelieu from power...
, François was forced into exile in England, before being recalled to the French court in 1631, where he participated in intrigues. Imprisoned in the Bastille
Bastille
The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. The Bastille was built in response to the English threat to the city of...
in 1632, he was interrogated more than 80 times by Laffemas, the "Bourreau du cardinal", who could not get a single confession out of him. Laffemas condemned him to death nevertheless and conducted him to the scaffold himself. However, at the very moment François de Rochechouart was placing his head on the block, a messenger came to stop the execution. After remaining in prison a long time after this, he was released and exiled to Italy, where he became close to Mazarin. He played an important role in the first hours of the Fronde
Fronde
The Fronde was a civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. The word fronde means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of Cardinal Mazarin....
.
At the Court of the Sun King
Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1610 to 1643.Louis was only eight years old when he succeeded his father. His mother, Marie de Medici, acted as regent during Louis' minority...
, Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1600–1675) accompanied the king on several expeditions. He was made first gentleman of the royal bedchamber (premier gentilhomme de la chambre du ro) in 1630. Louis XIV elevated him in 1663 to the title of Duke of Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente and Peer of France, also making him governor of Paris and the Île de France in 1669.
Three of his children occupied the highest places at the court of the Sun King - Louis Victor
Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart
Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart was a French nobleman and member of the ancient House of Rochechouart. His father Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart was a childhood friend of Louis XIII...
(1636–1688), called Duc de Vivonne, was Marshal of France
Marshal of France
The Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
and viceroy
Viceroy
A viceroy is a royal official who runs a country, colony, or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king. A viceroy's province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty...
in Sicily
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
; Marie Madeleine (1645–1704), called the queen of abbesses, was a very influential figure in the 17th century intellectual community, translating Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
's Symposium
Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–380 BCE. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love....
in conjunction with Racine
Jean Racine
Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition...
; Françoise-Athénaïs
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan
Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan , better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children....
(1640–1705), known as Madame de Montespan, was Louis XIV's favourite from 1667 to 1680. Under the Marquise's influence, infatuated with luxury, magnificence and "bel esprit", that the king led a majestic reign. They had 7 children together, whom the king wished to succeed to the throne if his legitimate line should die out (his great-grandson, the future Louis XV, was then his sole heir). In his will, the king designated the Duke of Maine and the Count of Toulose
Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse , duc de Penthièvre , d'Arc, de Châteauvillain and de Rambouillet , , was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Madame de Montespan...
as regents over his young successor. After the Sun King's death, Montespan's sons were nevertheless separated by the Duke of Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe d'Orléans was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723. Born at his father's palace at Saint-Cloud, he was known from birth under the title of Duke of Chartres...
, who had married one of the 7, Françoise-Marie
Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the youngest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Originally known as the second Mademoiselle de Blois, that style eventually gave way to the name Françoise Marie de...
, the great-grandmother of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.
In the 18th century, the House of Rochechouart occupied a top-rank place at court. Until the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
, it provided eight generals for the French army, of which one, Jean-Louis, was called to become a Marshal just before his sudden death in 1777. Three were decorated with the Order of the Holy Spirit. The Cardinal de Rochechouart, bishop of Laon, was the second ecclesiastical peer in France, and a very influential figure at the Vatican
Holy See
The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...
. Great almoner of the queen, he assisted in 1775 at the coronation of Louis XVI as a peer of the kingdom.
1792 to present
Estates-General of 1789
The Estates-General of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the nobility, the Church, and the common people...
. A liberal, he was one of the seven deputies of the nobility to pronounce the merging of the three orders and to rally them at the National Assembly
National Assembly
National Assembly is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known National Assembly, and the first legislature to be known by this title, was that established during the French Revolution in 1789, known as the Assemblée nationale...
, but the turn of events during the Revolution still forced him to emigrate in 1791, dying a short time later. His sister Diane was guillotined in 1794 during the Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror , also known simply as The Terror , was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of...
, as was her husband the duke of Châtelet, another deputy. Viscountess Marie was also decapitated in April of the same year, and viscountess Elisabeth (friend of Marie-Antoinette) only just escaped such a fate. An arrest warrant was issued on Elisabeth after she helped the queen to evade arrest, shut in in the Conciergerie, but Elisabeth escaped to England and Germany, where she was an active counter-revolutionary.
General Victurnien, deputy of the nobility at the Estates General in 1789, also emigrated to England in the face of the revolutionary turmoil, where King George III put him in command of an émigré
Émigré
Émigré is a French term that literally refers to a person who has "migrated out", but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile....
regiment on the British side, the "régiment Mortemart", which fought in Guernsey
Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
and Portugal. He returned to France in 1802. Napoleon named him councillor-general of the Seine in 1812. His son Casimir was employed in the Grande Armée, participating in the battles of Friedland
Battle of Friedland
The Battle of Friedland saw Napoleon I's French army decisively defeat Count von Bennigsen's Russian army about twenty-seven miles southeast of Königsberg...
, Essling, Wagram
Battle of Wagram
The Battle of Wagram was the decisive military engagement of the War of the Fifth Coalition. It took place on the Marchfeld plain, on the north bank of the Danube. An important site of the battle was the village of Deutsch-Wagram, 10 kilometres northeast of Vienna, which would give its name to the...
and Borodino
Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties...
. During the Russian campaign, he found himself fighting his own cousin, Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon armies of the Napoleonic Wars.- A peripatetic childhood :...
, who had emigrated to Russia and been made major-general in the tsar
Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....
's army, fighting at that rank in the battles of Berezina
Battle of Berezina
The Battle of Berezina took place November 26–29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina , and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov. The battle ended with a mixed outcome...
, Dresden
Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was fought on 26–27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon I against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's victory was not as complete as it could...
, Leipzig
Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, on 16–19 October 1813, was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine...
, the Campaign in France
War of the Sixth Coalition
In the War of the Sixth Coalition , a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a number of German States finally defeated France and drove Napoleon Bonaparte into exile on Elba. After Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, the continental powers...
and the Battle of Paris
Battle of Paris (1814)
The Battle of Paris was fought during the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. The French defeat led directly to the abdication of Napoleon I.-Background:...
. Made a general upon the Restoration
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
of Louis XVIII, as well as a commander of the Légion d'honneur
Légion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
, he served as governor of Paris from 1815 to 1823. As for Casimir de Rochechouart de Mortemart, who was also made a general on the Restoration, he was decorated with the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1825. In 1830, Charles X
Charles X of France
Charles X was known for most of his life as the Comte d'Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. A younger brother to Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him...
named him prime-minister, but he had no time to govern thanks to the "Trois Glorieuses" which overthrew the monarchy. Made grand-cross of the légion d'Honneur, he was made a senator in 1852. His cousins René-Roger and Henri were deputies under the French Third Republic
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
. Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1847–1933), duchess of Uzès, held one of the biggest fortunes in Europe, spending a large part of it on financing general Boulanger
Georges Boulanger
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger was a French general and reactionary politician. At the apogee of his popularity in January 1889 many republicans including Georges Clemenceau feared the threat of a coup d'état by Boulanger and the establishment of a dictatorship.- Early life and career :Born...
's political career in 1890. A great lady of the world, she wrote a dozen novels and was the first French woman to possess a driving licence. François de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Prince de Tonnay-Charente, was killed in 1918 at Ligny
Ligny
Ligny is a village in the municipality of Sombreffe . It is known as the site of the Battle of Ligny, when Napoleon defeated Blücher two days before the battle of Waterloo while Wellington and Marshal Ney were engaged at Quatre Bras...
during the First World War.
30px Arms and blazon 30px
- Limoges: OrOr (heraldry)In heraldry, Or is the tincture of gold and, together with argent , belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a field of evenly spaced dots...
, with three lions rampant, azureAzureIn heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation....
, with gulesGulesIn heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation....
claws - Rochechouart: Six fessFessIn heraldry, a fess or fesse is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the centre of the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by a fess or other ordinary, ranging from one-fifth to one-third...
es ondéWaveIn physics, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, accompanied by the transfer of energy.Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass...
and enté in argentArgentIn heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...
and in gules, entées from one to the other. - Rochechouart-Limoges: Quartered, with the first and fourth quarters or with three lion-cubs, azure (from the Limoges side), and second and third quarters with six fessFessIn heraldry, a fess or fesse is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the centre of the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by a fess or other ordinary, ranging from one-fifth to one-third...
es ondéWaveIn physics, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, accompanied by the transfer of energy.Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass...
and enté in argentArgentIn heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...
and in gules in six pieces (from the Rochechouart side)
Supporters: Two griffin
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle...
s, or, with claws, gules.
Crest
Crest (heraldry)
A crest is a component of an heraldic display, so called because it stands on top of a helmet, as the crest of a jay stands on the bird's head....
: Head of a unicorn "issante", confronted and posed between two enscrolled armorial banners of Limoges and of Rochechouart
Escutcheon: Surmounted by a ducal crown with an argent
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...
"timbre" treillissé
Variation of the field
In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division of the field.- Patterning with ordinaries and subordinaries :...
and enriched in or, formed of the same crown; at its sides, two banners of Limoges and of England crossed saltaire
Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal...
fashion and linked at the base by a scroll on which is inscribed the motto "Ante Mare Undae" or "L'esprit surpasse la matière".
Livery
Livery
A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in...
: yellow, tabard, culotte
Culottes
Culottes is a word that originated in French. Historically, "culottes" referred to the knee-breeches commonly worn by gentlemen of the European upper-classes from the late Middle Ages or Renaissance through the early nineteenth century. This style of tight pants ending just below the knee was first...
, scarlet doublet and hose; armorial buttons and braids in argent.
Battle cry
Battle cry
A battle cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same military unit.Battle cries are not necessarily articulate, although they often aim to invoke patriotic or religious sentiment....
: Saint-Martial
Mottos
"L'esprit surpasse la matière""Ante Mare Undae"
"Avant que la mer fût au monde, Rochechouart portait les ondes"
Titles of the House of Rochechouart
The members of the house of Rochechouart held 16 honours at court:- ViscountViscountA viscount or viscountess is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl or a count .-Etymology:...
of RochechouartRochechouartRochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....
(980, the oldest title in France) - MarquisMarquisMarquis is a French and Scottish title of nobility. The English equivalent is Marquess, while in German, it is Markgraf.It may also refer to:Persons:...
of Montpipeau, by letters patent of Louis XIIILouis XIII of FranceLouis XIII was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1610 to 1643.Louis was only eight years old when he succeeded his father. His mother, Marie de Medici, acted as regent during Louis' minority... - Duc of MortemartMortemartMortemart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, by letters patent of Louis XIVLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
(1650) - PrincePrincePrince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...
of Tonnay-CharenteTonnay-CharenteTonnay-Charente is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.In the 18th century it was the home town of Prominent Irish Physician Dr...
, by an accord of king Louis XIVLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days... - ComteComteComte is a title of Catalan, Occitan and French nobility. In the English language, the title is equivalent to count, a rank in several European nobilities. The corresponding rank in England is earl...
of LimogesLimogesLimoges |Limousin]] dialect of Occitan) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousin région in west-central France....
, by an accord of king Louis XIVLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
(1661) - Duc of VivonneVivonneVivonne is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, brother of Madame de Montespan was the duc de Vivonne....
, by letters patent of Louis XIVLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
(1668) in favour of Louis Victor de Rochechouart de MortemartLouis Victor de Rochechouart de MortemartLouis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart was a French nobleman and member of the ancient House of Rochechouart. His father Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart was a childhood friend of Louis XIII... - Grand d'Espagne, 1st class (1701)
- DukeDukeA duke or duchess is a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch, and historically controlling a duchy...
of RochechouartRochechouartRochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....
, par lettres patentes de 1753 - Peer of France, by the ordinance of 4 June 1814, confirmed as a hereditary title in the ordinance of 17 August 1815
- MarquisMarquisMarquis is a French and Scottish title of nobility. The English equivalent is Marquess, while in German, it is Markgraf.It may also refer to:Persons:...
–Hereditary peer by the ordinance of 31 August 1817
Distinctions
The House of Rochechouart has given its name to a quartier, a boulevardBoulevard de Rochechouart
The Boulevard de Rochechouart is situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau , abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the...
, a street, a metro station
Barbès - Rochechouart (Paris Metro)
Barbès-Rochechouart is a station on Paris Métro Line 2 and Line 4 at the point where the 9th, 10th, and 18th arrondissements all share a single point...
, and a hôtel particulier in Paris. It has also given birth to
- Statesmen - 1 prime minister, 2 ministers, 6 deputies and senators, numerous chamberlains of the king
- Soldiers - 1 Marshal of France and 13 generals. 23 Rochechouarts have been killed on the field of battle fighting in the French army
- Churchmen and women - 2 cardinals and 10 bishops
- Writers, artists and intellectuals
- 5 members of the Légion d'honneurLégion d'honneurThe Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
, including 1 Grand-Croix, and 8 members of the Order of the Holy SpiritOrder of the Holy SpiritThe Order of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Order of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, was an Order of Chivalry under the French Monarchy. It should not be confused with the Congregation of the Holy Ghost or with the Order of the Holy Ghost...
.
Fiefdoms and Châteaux
- Historic lands possessed by the descendents of Foucher de Limoges:
Limoges
Limoges |Limousin]] dialect of Occitan) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousin région in west-central France....
, Rochechouart, Aixe-sur-Vienne
Aixe-sur-Vienne
Aixe-sur-Vienne is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-External links:*...
, Bâtiment, Berneuil, Blond, Bonat, Boisseuil
Boisseuil
Boisseuil is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-Geography:The river Briance forms most of the commune's southern border.Inhabitants are known as Boisseuillais.-References:*...
, Brigueil
Brigueil-le-Chantre
Brigueil-le-Chantre is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.-References:*...
, Bussière-Boffy
Bussière-Boffy
Bussière-Boffy is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Bussiérands.-References:*...
, Bussière-Galant, Châlus
Châlus
Châlus is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-History:Châlus' is where Richard I of England was wounded by a crossbow bolt and killed as a result of the wound...
, Champagnac-la-Rivière
Champagnac-la-Rivière
Champagnac-la-Rivière is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-References:*...
, Champsac
Champsac
Champsac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Champsacois.-References:*...
, Château-Chervix
Château-Chervix
Château-Chervix is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.It has 781 inhabitants. Inhabitants are known as Châtelauds.-References:*...
, Chéronnac
Chéronnac
Chéronnac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-Geography:At Chéronnac is the source of Charente River.Inhabitants are known as Chéronnacais.-References:*...
, Cieux, Clavieres, Cognac-la-Forêt
Cognac-la-Forêt
Cognac-la-Forêt is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-References:*...
, Coussac-Bonneval
Coussac-Bonneval
Coussac-Bonneval is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Coussacois.-References:*...
, Cussac, Dournazac
Dournazac
Dournazac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Dournazacois.-References:*...
, Eyjeaux
Eyjeaux
Eyjeaux is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-References:*...
, Fauvette, Flavignac
Flavignac
Flavignac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Flavignacois.-References:*...
, Glandon
Glandon
Glandon is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Glandonais.-References:*...
, Gorre
Gorre
Gorre is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Gorrois.-References:*...
, Javerdat
Javerdat
Javerdat is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-External links:*...
, La Chapelle-Montbrandeix
La Chapelle-Montbrandeix
La Chapelle-Montbrandeix is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Chapelauds.-References:*...
, Ladignac-le-Long
Ladignac-le-Long
Ladignac-le-Long is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Ladignacois.-References:*...
, Lavignac
Lavignac
Lavignac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Le Chalard
Le Chalard
Le Chalard is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.Inhabitants are known as Peyrouliers.-References:*...
, Les Cars
Les Cars
Les Cars is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.- References :*...
, Les Salles-Lavauguyon
Les Salles-Lavauguyon
Les Salles-Lavauguyon is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-External links:*...
, Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire
Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire
Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-Tourism:It is a pretty little village with a sixteenth century church that has a square steeple. It also has a village shop, a school, a town hall, a small post office and of course...
, Marafy, Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire, Marval
Marval
Marval is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Marvalais.-References:*...
, Mézières-sur-Issoire
Mézières-sur-Issoire
Mézières-sur-Issoire is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Méziérauds.-References:*...
, Mortemart, Nouic
Nouic
Nouic is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Nouaijauds.-References:*...
, Oradour-sur-Glane
Oradour-sur-Glane
Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company...
, Oradour-sur-Vayres, Pageas
Pageas
Pageas is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Pageaciens.-References:*...
, Pensol
Pensol
Pensol is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Pierre-Buffière
Pierre-Buffière
Pierre-Buffière is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-Geography:The village lies on the left bank of the Briance, which flows westward through the northern part of the commune....
, Razé, Repaire, Rochebrune, Saint-Auvent, Saint-Bazile, Saint-Bonnet-Briance
Saint-Bonnet-Briance
Saint-Bonnet-Briance is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Saint-Christophe, Saint-Gervais, Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle
Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle
Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-Geography:The Roselle, a tributary of the Briance, forms most of the commune's northern border; the Briance forms all of its southern border....
, Saint-Hilaire-Bonneval
Saint-Hilaire-Bonneval
Saint-Hilaire-Bonneval is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Saint-Jean-Ligoure
Saint-Jean-Ligoure
Saint-Jean-Ligoure is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Saint-Cyr, Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre
Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre
Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Laurentais.-References:*...
, Saint-Léger-la-Montagne
Saint-Léger-la-Montagne
Saint-Léger-la-Montagne is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Saint-Légeois.-References:*...
, Saint-Mathieu
Saint-Mathieu
Saint-Mathieu is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Mathuséens.-References:*...
, Saint-Paul, Saint-Victurnien
Saint-Victurnien
Saint-Victurnien is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Its name refers to Saint Yrieix .Inhabitants are known as Arédiens.-References:*...
, Sainte-Marie-de-Vaux
Sainte-Marie-de-Vaux
Sainte-Marie-de-Vaux is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Vayres
Vayres, Haute-Vienne
Vayres is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Vayrois.-References:*...
, Videix
Videix
Videix is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.-References:*...
, Vigneau...; Aisne: Corbeny
Corbeny
Corbeny is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-Geography:The river Ailette flows southward through the northwestern part of the commune....
, La Ferté-Chevresis
La Ferté-Chevresis
La Ferté-Chevresis is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-References:*...
, Saint-Germain-les-Belles
Saint-Germain-les-Belles
Saint-Germain-les-Belles is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.Inhabitants are known as Saint-Germinois.-References:*...
...; Allier: Bellenaves
Bellenaves
Bellenaves is a commune in the Allier department in central France.-Population:...
, Gayette...; Ariège: Lescure, Soulan
Soulan
Soulan is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.-Population:Inhabitants of Soulan are called Soulanais....
...; Aube: Bréviandes
Bréviandes
Bréviandes is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.-Population:-References:*...
, La Motte-Tilly
La Motte-Tilly
La Motte-Tilly is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Maupas...; Charente: Bessac
Bessac
Bessac is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Brigueil, Chabanais
Chabanais
Chabanais is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.-Geography:The Vienne River passes through Chabanais. The village is located in the Rochechouart crater, an ancient asteroid impact crater that eroded away and is not visible anymore....
, Confolens
Confolens
Confolens is a commune in southwestern France. It is one of the two sub-prefecture of the Charente department.Confolens is the administrative center of a largely rural district, which has seen the development of tourism in recent years.-Geography:...
, Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard
Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard
Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.The town is overlooked by a castle that dates from the Middle Ages, and a chapel within its gardens is classified as a historic monument. While its walls date from the eleventh century, the castle was destroyed...
, Montrollet
Montrollet
Montrollet is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Saint-Christophe...; Charente-Maritime: Fontaine de Burlé, Tonnay-Charente...Cher: Ardé, Chârost
Chârost
Chârost is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:A farming village situated by the banks of the river Arnon, some southwest of Bourges at the junction of the N151 with the D16, D88, D18 and D2 roads. The commune lies on the pilgrimage route known as St...
, Cros, Fontmoreau, Ivoy-le-Pré
Ivoy-le-Pré
Ivoy-le-Pré is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:An area of lakes, forestry and farming comprising the village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the petite Sauldre river, some north of Bourges at the junction of the D55, D12 and the D39 roads...
, Jars
Jars, Cher
Jars is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:An area of forestry and farming, comprising the village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the river Sauldre, some northeast of Bourges, at the junction of the D923, D55 and the D47...
, La Salle de Jançai, Lavaupot, Loisière, Mondon, Morogues
Morogues
Morogues is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:An area of forestry, vineyards and farming, comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated some northeast of Bourges, at the junction of the D185 with the D59 and D212 roads.-Population:-Places of...
, Rhodes, Sens-Beaujeu
Sens-Beaujeu
Sens-Beaujeu is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:An area of farming comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated in the Sauldre river valley some northeast of Bourges, at the junction of the D7 with the D74 and the D196 roads.-Population:-Places...
...; Corrèze: Arnac-Pompadour
Arnac-Pompadour
Arnac-Pompadour is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.The city is famous for its chateau and its stud farm, the Pompadour National Anglo-Arab Stud, headquarters of the French National Stud and France's principal production centre of Anglo-Arabian horses.-History:Arnac was...
, Ayen
Ayen
Ayen is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Benayes
Benayes
Benayes is a commune of the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Beyssac
Beyssac
Beyssac is a commune of the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-Personalities:Beyssac was the birthplace of Étienne Aubert , who became pope as Pope Innocent VI.-References:*...
, Beyssenac
Beyssenac
Beyssenac is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.It is home to a Romanesque church and a monument commemorating a massacre made by Nazi troops against the population of 16 February 1944....
, Brignac-la-Plaine
Brignac-la-Plaine
Brignac-la-Plaine is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-See also:*Communes of the Corrèze department...
, Chamberet
Chamberet
Chamberet is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Louignac
Louignac
Louignac is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Demographics:-Sights:* Castle LOMS* The burials "Merovingian" - Lo Cementers dau Vars - near the Reynie, ten sarcophagi scattered on a hill dug into the rock including one to two cavities.* Wells covered the village of Fournerie*...
, Lubersac
Lubersac
Lubersac is a commune in the Corrèze département in central France near Arnac-Pompadour and Uzerche.It was formerly called Louparsat , named from the legend of a knight who killed a wolf with a blow of his sword to save his beloved...
, Masseret
Masseret
Masseret is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Montgibaud
Montgibaud
Montgibaud is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Objat
Objat
Objat is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Perpezac-le-Blanc
Perpezac-le-Blanc
Perpezac-le-Blanc is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Aulaire
Saint-Aulaire
Saint-Aulaire is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Cyprien
Saint-Cyprien, Corrèze
Saint-Cyprien is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries
Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries
Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Julien-le-Vendômois
Saint-Julien-le-Vendômois
Saint-Julien-le-Vendômois is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Martin-Sepert
Saint-Martin-Sepert
Saint-Martin-Sepert is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Pardoux-Corbier
Saint-Pardoux-Corbier
Saint-Pardoux-Corbier is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Robert, Saint-Sornin-Lavolps
Saint-Sornin-Lavolps
Saint-Sornin-Lavolps is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Segonzac
Segonzac, Corrèze
Segonzac is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, Ségur-le-Château
Ségur-le-Château
Ségur-le-Château is a commune in the department of Corrèze in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Vars-sur-Roseix
Vars-sur-Roseix
Vars-sur-Roseix is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
, Yssandon
Yssandon
Yssandon is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
...; Côte d'Or: Arconçay, Arc-sur-Tille
Arc-sur-Tille
Arc-sur-Tille is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in Bourgogne in eastern France.-Geography:The village is surrounded by the Tille, a tributary of the Saône. It is located 12 kilometres by road east of Dijon.-Population:-Sights:...
, Brognon, Chazeuil, Dussac
Dussac
Dussac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Marey
Marey-lès-Fussey
Marey-lès-Fussey is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Selongey
Selongey
Selongey is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.-Population:-References:*...
; Creuse: Azat-Châtenet
Azat-Châtenet
Azat-Châtenet is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in central France.-Geography:An area of farming, forests and lakes, comprising a small village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the Leyrenne river, some southwest of Guéret at the junction of the D42 and the...
, Boussac
Boussac, Creuse
Boussac is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in central France.-Geography:A small light industrial town situated by the banks of the Petite Creuse river, some northeast of Guéret, at the junction of the D11 and the D997 roads....
, Bridiers, Saint-Étienne-de-Fursac
Saint-Étienne-de-Fursac
Saint-Étienne-de-Fursac is a commune in the Creuse department in central France.-Population:-References:*...
...; Dordogne: Abjat-sur-Bandiat
Abjat-sur-Bandiat
Abjat-sur-Bandiat is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. The commune was simply known as Abjat until 1975-Population:-Sport:Every year, since the 1990s, the locals compete with the conkers championship...
, Angoisse, Anlhiac
Anlhiac
Anlhiac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Atur
Atur, Dordogne
Atur is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Augignac
Augignac
Augignac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.Augignac is located between Nontron and Piégut-Pluviers in the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional de Périgord-Limousin-Population:-External links:* *...
, Bassillac
Bassillac
Bassillac is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Beauregard-de-Terrasson
Beauregard-de-Terrasson
Beauregard-de-Terrasson is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Blis-et-Born
Blis-et-Born
Blis-et-Born is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Boulazac
Boulazac
Boulazac is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Châtres
Châtres, Dordogne
Châtres is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Chavagnac
Chavagnac, Dordogne
Chavagnac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Clermont-d'Excideuil
Clermont-d'Excideuil
Clermont-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-History:...
, Coly
Coly
Coly is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Condat-sur-Vézère
Condat-sur-Vézère
Condat-sur-Vézère is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Connezac
Connezac
Connezac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* * *Map and aerial photos:**Street map: , or or **Satellite images: or - image now available-References:*...
, Corgnac-sur-l'Isle
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Excideuil
Excideuil
Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:It should not be confused with Exideuil in the Charente department....
, Eyliac
Eyliac
Eyliac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Eyzerac
Eyzerac
Eyzerac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Fougeyrolles, Génis
Génis
Génis is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Grèzes
Grèzes, Dordogne
Grèzes is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Hautefaye
Hautefaye
Hautefaye is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in south-western France.-Killing of Alain de Monéys:On 16 August 1870, France was losing a war against Prussia...
, Javerlhac
Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert
Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. Javerlhac is in the Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin.-Geography:...
, La Cosière en Périgord, La Douze
La Douze
La Douze is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-History:The lordship of La Douze was acquired in 1372 by the Abzac family...
, La Bachellerie
La Bachellerie
La Bachellerie is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, La Cassagne
La Cassagne
La Cassagne is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, La Dornac
La Dornac
La Dornac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, La Feuillade
La Feuillade
La Feuillade is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Lanouaille
Lanouaille
Lanouaille is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The commune is linked with the departmental road D704 . It is a small commercial town.-History:...
, Le Bourdeix
Le Bourdeix
Le Bourdeix is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* * *Map and aerial photos:**Street map: , or or **Satellite images: or - image now available...
, Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare
Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare
Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Lempzours
Lempzours
Lempzours is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Lussas-et-Nontronneau
Lussas-et-Nontronneau
Lussas-et-Nontronneau is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.In 1827, the communes of Lussas and Nontronneau formed into Lussas-et-Nontronneau-Population:-External links:* *...
, Marsaneix
Marsaneix
-References:*...
, Milhac-d'Auberoche
Milhac-d'Auberoche
Milhac-d'Auberoche is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Nanthiat
Nanthiat
Nanthiat is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Nantheuil
Nantheuil
Nantheuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Nontron
Nontron
Nontron is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-History:According to the historian Ribault de Laugardière, the name Nontron derives from the Tyrian language, from Nata and Dun...
, Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac
Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac
Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Payzac, Pazayac
Pazayac
Pazayac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Peyrignac
Peyrignac
Peyrignac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Preyssac-d'Excideuil
Preyssac-d'Excideuil
Preyssac-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Antoine-d'Auberoche
Saint-Antoine-d'Auberoche
Saint-Antoine-d'Auberoche is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes
Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes
Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Estèphe, Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne
Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne
Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.In 1912, the commune of Saint-Front-de-Champniers changed its name to Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne.-Geography:...
, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Saint-Geyrac
Saint-Geyrac
Saint-Geyrac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:*...
, Saint-Jean-de-Côle
Saint-Jean-de-Côle
Saint-Jean-de-Côle is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The Côle flows south-southwest through the middle of the commune and crosses the village.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Jory-las-Bloux
Saint-Jory-las-Bloux
Saint-Jory-las-Bloux is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The commune is situated on a promontory, in the area of Périgord Blanc and the Périgord Vert, Saint-Jory-las-Bloux associatees with several countrysides, springs and...
, Saint-Laurent-sur-Manoire
Saint-Laurent-sur-Manoire
Saint-Laurent-sur-Manoire is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac
Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac
Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Martial-d'Albarède
Saint-Martial-d'Albarède
Saint-Martial-d'Albarède is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Martial-de-Valette
Saint-Martial-de-Valette
Saint-Martial-de-Valette is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Martin-de-Fressengeas
Saint-Martin-de-Fressengeas
Saint-Martin-de-Fressengeas is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Martin-le-Pin
Saint-Martin-le-Pin
Saint-Martin-le-Pin is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is part of the Regional Natural Park Périgord Limousin.- Geography :...
, Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil
Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil
Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Mesmin
Saint-Mesmin, Dordogne
Saint-Mesmin is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The commune is located in the north-west corner of the Dordogne department. The village is located north-west of Périgueux...
, Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil
Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil
Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac
Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac
Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Pierre-de-Côle
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The River Côle flows southwestward through the middle of the commune, crosses the village and forms part of the commune's south-western border. The village straddles the D 78 road from...
, Saint-Rabier
Saint-Rabier
Saint-Rabier is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Romain-et-Saint-Clément
Saint-Romain-et-Saint-Clément
Saint-Romain-et-Saint-Clément is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.In 1827, the municipalities of St. Clement and St. Romain merge under the name of Saint-Romain-et-Saint-Clement.-Geography:...
, Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil
Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil
Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Sainte-Trie
Sainte-Trie
Sainte-Trie is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-History:During the creation of the French departments in 1790, the commune first became part of the Corrèze department. It became part of the Dordogne department in 1793....
, Salagnac
Salagnac
Salagnac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-History:During the creation of the French departments in 1790, it first joined the Corrèze department, it was reattached to the Dordogne department....
, Sarlande
Sarlande
Sarlande is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.- Population :- External links :* *...
, Sarrazac
Sarrazac, Dordogne
Sarrazac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Savignac-Lédrier
Savignac-Lédrier
Savignac-Lédrier is a commune in the Dordogne department of Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Geography:The commune is situated by the Auvézère river, and is surrounded by other communes including Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes, Saint-Mesmin, Lanouaille and Payzac. The principal town and two villages ...
, Sceau-Saint-Angel
Sceau-Saint-Angel
Sceau-Saint-Angel is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* * Sceau-Saint-Angel is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Terrasson-Lavilledieu
Terrasson-Lavilledieu
Terrasson-Lavilledieu is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.The Gardens of the Imagination —classified as a remarkable garden by the French Ministry of Culture—are situated in Terrasson...
, Teyjat
Teyjat
Teyjat is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-External links:* *...
, Thiviers
Thiviers
Thiviers is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-Personalities:It is notable as being the town in which Jean-Paul Sartre lived as a child. Painter Pierre Bouillon was born there.-References:*...
, Vaunac
Vaunac
Vaunac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
, Vieux-Mareuil
Vieux-Mareuil
Vieux-Mareuil is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Villac
Villac
Villac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...
...; Essonne: Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière
Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière
Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.Inhabitants of Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière are known as Saint-Cyriens.-Geography:...
...; Haute-Garonne: Aureville
Aureville
Aureville is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Barbazan
Barbazan, Haute-Garonne
Barbazan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Clermont-le-Fort
Clermont-le-Fort
Clermont-le-Fort is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Geography:The Ariège forms most of the commune's western border, with the Lèze, one of its tributaries, which flows here into the Ariège.-Population:-References:*...
, Goyrans
Goyrans
Goyrans is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Laborthe-sur-Lèze, Montclar-Lauragais
Montclar-Lauragais
Montclar-Lauragais is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Pompiac
Pompiac
Pompiac is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.-Population:...
...; Gers: Montégut, Plieux
Plieux
Plieux is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.-Geography:The Auroue flows north through the western part of the commune; the river Arrats forms all of the commune's eastern border.-Population:...
...; Gironde: Belin
Belin-Béliet
Belin-Béliet is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.-Population:-See also:*Communes of the Gironde department*Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne-References:*...
...; Loire-Atlantique: Château-Thébaud
Château-Thébaud
Château-Thébaud is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...
, Fercé
Fercé
Fercé is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-Geography:The Semnon forms part of the commune's northern border; the Brutz, a tributary of the Semnon, forms all of its southern border.-See also:...
, Saint-Julien-de-Concelles
Saint-Julien-de-Concelles
Saint-Julien-de-Concelles is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.St Julien de Concelles is also known for being the founding town of the now very popular beurre blanc sauce....
, Montrelais
Montrelais
Montrelais is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France....
, Quehillac, La Sénéchallière, Vieillevigne...; Loiret: Châtillon-le-Roi
Châtillon-le-Roi
Châtillon-le-Roi is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loiret department...
, Coulmiers
Coulmiers
Coulmiers is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France....
, Germigny-des-Prés
Germigny-des-Prés
Germigny-des-Prés is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Carolingian architecture:The oratory at Germigny-des-Prés was built by Bishop Theodulf of Orléans in 806 as part of his palace complex within the Gallo-Roman villa in Germaniacus...
, Isy, La Brosse, Loury
Loury
Loury is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France....
, Mareau-aux-Prés
Mareau-aux-Prés
Mareau-aux-Prés is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France....
, Nancray-sur-Rimarde
Nancray-sur-Rimarde
Nancray-sur-Rimarde is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loiret department...
, Montpipeau, Saint-Ay
Saint-Ay
Saint-Ay is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-References:*...
...; Indre: Chaillac
Chaillac
Chaillac is a commune in the Indre department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Indre department* Rochechouart crater* Saint-Benoît-du-Sault* Château de Brosse-References:*...
, Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
Saint-Benoît-du-Sault is a commune in the Indre department in central France.It is a medieval village , perched in a curve on a rocky butte overlooking the Portefeuille River in the former province of Berry....
Le Bouchet, Migné
Migné
Migné is a commune in the Indre department in central France.-References:*...
, Saulnay
Saulnay
Saulnay is a commune in the Indre department in central France.-References:*...
...; Lot: Gramat
Gramat
Gramat is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France....
...; Mayenne: Entramme...; Nièvre: Dampierre-sous-Bouhy
Dampierre-sous-Bouhy
Dampierre-sous-Bouhy is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was 470. On 1 January 2005, the estimate was 489.-References:*...
, Corbigny
Corbigny
Corbigny is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.The city is located next to the Morvan and is one of the five Cities-Doors of Parc naturel régional du Morvan.-History:...
, Moulins-Engilbert
Moulins-Engilbert
Moulins-Engilbert is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was 1571. On 1 January 2006, the estimate was 1685.-References:*...
, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-References:*...
, Saint-Péreuse
Saint-Péreuse
Saint-Péreuse is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-References:* -External links:*...
, Saint-Vérain
Saint-Vérain
Saint-Vérain is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-References:*...
, Vauchisson...; Oise: Blicourt
Blicourt
Blicourt is a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise....
, Marseille-en-Beauvaisis
Marseille-en-Beauvaisis
Marseille-en-Beauvaisisis a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise.-References:*...
...; Puy de Dôme: Artonne
Artonne
Artonne is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-References:*...
, Bessac, La Tour-d'Auvergne
La Tour-d'Auvergne
La Tour-d'Auvergne is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-References:*...
, Montpeyroux, Ravel...; Saône et Loire: Bellevesvre
Bellevesvre
Bellevesvre is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.-References:*...
, Couches
Couches
Couches is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.-References:*...
, Layé... Seine-Maritime: [Fricourt], la Motte, ...;Seine-et-Marne: Bray-sur-Seine
Bray-sur-Seine
Bray-sur-Seine is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...
, Everly
Everly, Seine-et-Marne
Everly is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...
, Moigneville, Soissy sous Etiole, Trilbardou
Trilbardou
Trilbardou is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...
, Meaux
Meaux
Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located east-northeast from the center of Paris. Meaux is a sub-prefecture of the department and the seat of an arondissement...
...; Somme: Marseilles, ...; Tarn-et-Garonne: Bruniquel
Bruniquel
Bruniquel is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France.-Geography:The tiny fortified village of 561 inhabitants is at an altitude of 250 metres by the river Aveyron....
, Faudoas
Faudoas
Faudoas is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France.-References:*...
...; Deux-Sèvres: Champdeniers, Gascougnolles, Le Bourdet
Le Bourdet
Le Bourdet is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.-References:*...
, Limalonges
Limalonges
Limalonges is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.-References:*...
, Mauzé
Mauzé-Thouarsais
Mauzé-Thouarsais is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.-References:*...
, Vouillé...; Vendée: Montaigu...; Vienne: Abzac, Availles
Availles-en-Châtellerault
Availles-en-Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.-References:*...
, Brion, Chanail, Château-Larcher
Château-Larcher
Château-Larcher is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.-Geography:The Clouère flows northwesthward through the middle of the commune, forms part of its north-eastern border, then flows into the Clain, which forms its north-western border.-References:*...
, Cercigné, Isle-Dieu, Dieuné, Lussac-les-Châteaux
Lussac-les-Châteaux
Lussac-les-Châteaux is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.- Prehistory :The importance of the prehistoric art at Lussac is evidenced by the presence of numerous archaeological artefacts in the Museum of National Antiquities at...
, Isle-Jourdain, Vienne, Vernières Vivonne
Vivonne
Vivonne is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, brother of Madame de Montespan was the duc de Vivonne....
...; Yonne: Malvoisine...; Val d'Oise: Chars
Chars
Chars is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.-References:** -External links:* *...
...
- The House of Limoges-Rochechouart also possessed the châteaux of RochechouartChâteau de RochechouartChâteau de Rochechouart is a thirteenth century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.- Background :...
, de JumilhacChâteau de JumilhacChâteau de Jumilhac is a château in Dordogne, Aquitane, France....
, de MontbrunChâteau de MontbrunThe Château de Montbrun is a castle in the commune of Dournazac in the Haute-Vienne département of France. The castle was built in the 12th and 15th centuries, and was restored in the late 19th....
, de Château-Chervix, de ChâlusChâlusChâlus is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in western France.-History:Châlus' is where Richard I of England was wounded by a crossbow bolt and killed as a result of the wound...
, de Javarzay, d'Auberoche, de La Motte de Bauçay, de Cressey, de Montigny, du Plessis-Belin,..., as well as several hôtelHotelA hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...
s in Paris, including 2 at Saint-Germain des Prés, called the "Colombier", the Hôtel de Rochechouart rue de Grenelle (now used by the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale), the hôtel de Mortemart rue Saint-Guillaume, the hôtel de Jars, and hôtel rue Van Dyck, in Parc Monceau.
Alliances
The House of Rochechouart has notably been allied to the houses of :France
Capetian dynasty
The Capetian dynasty , also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line. Hugh Capet himself was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians and the Merovingians, earlier rulers of France...
, of Bourbon, of Navarre
Capetian dynasty
The Capetian dynasty , also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line. Hugh Capet himself was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians and the Merovingians, earlier rulers of France...
, of Orléans, of Vendôme, of Ponthieu, of Vermandois
Capetian dynasty
The Capetian dynasty , also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line. Hugh Capet himself was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians and the Merovingians, earlier rulers of France...
, of England, of Aragon, of Foix
Counts of Foix
The counts of Foix ruled the independent County of Foix, in what is now southern France, during the Middle Ages. Later they extended their power to almost the entire Pyrenees mountain range, moving their court to Pau, in Béarn, until eventually the last count of Foix acceded to the French throne as...
, of Courtenay, of Brabant, of Bretagne, of Artois
Capetian dynasty
The Capetian dynasty , also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line. Hugh Capet himself was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians and the Merovingians, earlier rulers of France...
, of Lorraine
House of Lorraine
The House of Lorraine, the main and now only remaining line known as Habsburg-Lorraine, is one of the most important and was one of the longest-reigning royal houses in the history of Europe...
, of Milan, Plantagenet, of Dreux-Bretagne
Capetian dynasty
The Capetian dynasty , also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line. Hugh Capet himself was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians and the Merovingians, earlier rulers of France...
, of Angoulême
Counts and dukes of Angoulême
Angoulême in western France was part of the Carolingian Empire as the kingdom of Aquitaine. Under Charlemagne's successors, the local Count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1307. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny the Angoumois, then ruled by the...
, of Harcourt
House of Harcourt
The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, descended from the Viking Bernard the Dane and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy. Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant" , "Gesta verbis praevenient" , and "Le bon temps viendra .....
, of Constant Rebecque, of La Rochefoucauld, of Rougé
House of Rougé
The House of Rougé is a family of the French nobility, documented since the 11th century, originally coming from the locality of Rougé in Brittany. Their line descends from Rivallo IV of Brittany, himself the son of Saint Salomon, King of Brittany...
, of Châtillon
House of Châtillon
The House of Châtillon was a notable French family, with origins in the 9th century and surviving until 1762. The name comes from a county in Champagne, with its capital in Châtillon-sur-Marne and branches in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Blois, Penthièvre, Chartres, etc.The counts of Châtillon added to...
, of Mercastel, of Montmorency, of Clermont-Tonnerre, of Polignac, of Albret, of Richelieu, of Noailles, Colbert, of Allonville, of Ségur
Ségur
-People:The Ségur family included many notable personages of France, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and the United States:...
, of La Tour du Pin, of Sully
House of Bethune
The House of Béthune or House of Bethune is a French noble house dating back to about 1000 CE. They came from Béthune, in the former province of Artois in the north of France. They were traditionally lords of the town and castle of Béthune and Advocates of the Abbey of St. Vaast at Arras...
, of Cossé-Brissac, of Turenne, of Anjou-Mézières, of Aumont, Des Cars, of Damas, of Saint-Aldegonde, of Aubusson, of Beauvilliers, of Beauvau
Beauvau family
The Beauvau family was a historic family originating in Anjou. The Beauvau du Rivau branch was rooted in Brittany and produced two bishops of Nantes, whilst the Beauvau-Craon branch was established in Lorraine....
, of Biron, of Chabot, of Estampes, of Montboissier-Canillac, of Montbron, of Pierrebuffières, of Périgord, of Lévis, of La Trémouille, of Saulx, Borghese ...
Simplified genealogy of the House of Limoges
Sources
All in French unless otherwise noted.- Michel de CastelnauMichel de CastelnauMichel de Castelnau, Sieur de la Mauvissière , French soldier and diplomat, ambassador to Queen Elizabeth, was born in Mauvissière, , Touraine about 1520...
, Mémoires, 1659 - Père Anselme, Histoire de la Maison royale de France et des grands officiers de la couronne, 1685
- Bonaventure de Saint-Aimable, Histoire de Saint-Martial, 1685
- Charles ClémencetCharles ClémencetCharles Clémencet was a French Benedictine historian.He was born in Painblanc, Côte-d'Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work Art de vérifier les dates . He also wrote part of the monumental Histoire littéraire de la France, and the history of the abbey of...
, L'Art de vérifier les dates, 1750 - Louis MorériLouis MorériLouis Moréri was a French encyclopaedist.His encyclopaedia, Le grand Dictionaire historique, ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane was first published in Lyon in 1674. The encyclopaedia focused particularly on historical and biographical articles...
, Grand dictionnaire historique, 1759 - Collection Chérin, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Ambroise Louis d'Hozier, Carrés d'Hozier, 1851
- Abbé Duléry, Rochechouart, histoire, légendes, archéologie, 1855
- Général Louis-Victor-Léon de RochechouartLouis-Victor-Léon de RochechouartLouis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon armies of the Napoleonic Wars.- A peripatetic childhood :...
, Histoire de la Maison de Rochechouart, 1859 - Ambroise Ledru, La Maison de Faudoas, 1862
- Robert de Lasteyrie, Etude sur les comtes et vicomte de Limoges antéieurs à l'An Mil, 1874
- Léo Desaivres, Histoire des Chandeniers, 1898
- Docteur Adrien Grézillier, Histoire de Rochechouart, des origines à la Révolution, 1975
- Georges Martin, Histoire et généalogie de la Maison de Rochechouart, 1990
External links
All in French unless otherwise noted.- Les dynasties célèbres: la dynastie de Limoges
- Les dynasties célèbres: la dynastie de Rochechouart
- Article sur la famille de Rochechouart dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis
- Le Fonds Rochechouart aux Archives nationales (431 AP)
- Articles sue la Maison de Rochechouart parus dans la Gazette de France entre 1633 et 1765
- Le Château de Rochechouart sur le site de la ville de Rochechouart