The titles of Duc d'Elchingen and Prince de la Moskowa were created by Napoleon I

Napoleon I of France

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, Emperor of the French

Emperor of the French

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, for the Marshal of France

Marshal of France

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 Michel Ney

Michel Ney

Michel Ney , 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I...

. Both were victory titles; Ney was created duc d'Elchingen in 1808, after the Battle of Elchingen

Battle of Elchingen

The Battle of Elchingen, fought on October 14, 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon I of France while other...

, and prince de la Moskowa ("prince of the Moskva

Moskva River

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") in 1812, after the Battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino

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 outside Moscow. In 1814, Ney became a peer of France. On his execution in 1815, the peerage was revoked, but it was restored in 1831.

Clauses in the titles' patents of creation caused the title of prince de la Moskowa to pass to Ney's eldest son, Joseph, and that of duc d'Elchingen to pass to his second son, Michel. This ensured that the two titles would never be held by the same person if there was another heir living, a similar situation to the British titles of Duke of Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton

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 and Earl of Selkirk

Earl of Selkirk

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.

The two titles were reunited in 1928 and both became extinct with the death of the last heir in 1969.

Ducs d'Elchingen (1808)

• Michel Ney, 1st duc d'Elchingen
  Michel Ney
  Michel Ney , 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I...
  
   (1769–1815)
• Michel Louis Félix Ney, 2nd duc d'Elchingen (1804–1854), second son of the 1st duc, confirmed in his title in 1826
• Michel Aloys Ney, 3rd duc d'Elchingen (1835–1881), only son of the 2nd duc
• Charles Aloys Jean Gabriel Ney, 4th duc d'Elchingen (1873–1933), younger son of the 3rd duc, succeeded as 5th prince de la Moskowa in 1928
• Michel Georges Napoléon Ney, 5th duc d'Elchingen, 6th prince de la Moskowa (1905–1969)

Princes de la Moskowa (1813)

• Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moscowa
  Michel Ney
  Michel Ney , 1st Duc d'Elchingen, 1st Prince de la Moskowa was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I...
  
   (1769–1815)
• Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd prince de la Moskowa
  Napoléon Joseph Ney
  Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa, was a French politician.- Biography :Elder son of Michel Ney. Born in Paris in 1803, his godfather was Napoléon. He married in 1828 the daughter of the banker Pierre Laffite.-Sources:...
  
   (1803–1857), eldest son of the 1st prince
• Edgar Napoléon Henry Ney, 3rd prince de la Moskowa (1812–1882), fourth son of the 1st prince
• Léon Napoléon Louis Michel Ney, 4th prince de la Moskowa (1870–1928), elder son of the 3rd duc d'Elchingen
• Charles Aloys Jean Gabriel Ney, 5th prince de La Moskowa, 4th duc d'Elchingen (1873–1933), younger son of the 3rd duc d'Elchingen
• Michel Georges Napoléon Ney, 6th prince de La Moskowa, 5th duc d'Elchingen (1905–1969),

External links

• An Online Gotha: Ney d'Elchingen
• Héraldique européenne: Maison Ney (European Heraldry: House of Ney, in French
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