List of counts and dukes of Vendôme

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Count of Vendôme, and, later, Duke of Vendôme, were French titles of nobility. The first known holder of the title was Bouchard Ratepilate. The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon. In 1514, Vendôme was made a duchy-peerage. In 1589, the then-Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain. It was re-granted to his illegitimate son César in 1598, and held by his descendants until the extinction of the true male line in 1727.

Contents 1 Bouchardides 2 House of Nevers 3 House of Anjou 4 House of Nevers 5 House of Preuilly 6 House of Montoire 7 House of Bourbon 8 Dukes of Vendôme (House of Bourbon) 9 Royal Dukes of Vendôme 10 English Counts of Vendôme

[edit] Bouchardides

• Bouchard Ratepilate (c. 930 – 956...967)
• Bouchard I (956...967–1005), also Count of Paris and Count of Corbeil by marriage
• Renaud (1005–1017), Bishop of Paris 991–1017

[edit] House of Nevers

• Bodon of Nevers (1017–1023), by marriage to Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou, daughter of Fulk III of Anjou and Elisabeth de Vendôme, daughter of Bouchard I
• Bouchard II (1023–1028)
  • under the regency of Fulk III of Anjou (1023–1027)
• shared between Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou and Fulk de Vendôme (1028–1032)

[edit] House of Anjou

• Geoffrey I (1032–1056), also Count of Anjou (succeeded Adèle by cession and drove out Fulk)

[edit] House of Nevers

• Fulk de Vendôme (1056–1066), reinstated by Henry I of France
• Bouchard III (1066–1085)
  • under the regency of Guy of Nouastre (1066–1075)

[edit] House of Preuilly

• Geoffrey II (1085–1102), Lord of Preuilly, married Euphrosine, daughter of Fulk of Vendôme
• Geoffrey III (1102–1137)
  • under the regency (1102–1105) of Euphrosine
• John I (1137–1180)
• Bouchard IV (1180–1202)
• John II (1202–1211)
  • under the regency (1202–1211) of Geoffrey, son of John I
• John III 1211–1217

[edit] House of Montoire

• Jean IV (1217–1230), Lord of Montoire, enate grandson of Bouchard IV
• Pierre (1230–1249)
• Bouchard V (1249–1270)
• Jean V (1271–1315)
• Bouchard VI (1315–1354)
• Jean VI (1254–1364)
• Bouchard VII (1364–1371)
• Catherine de Vendôme (1371–1372)
  • under the regency of her grandmother Jeanne de Ponthieu (1371–1372)
  • with John VII of Bourbon-La Marche (1372–1393)
  • with Louis I of Bourbon-Vendôme (1393–1403)

[edit] House of Bourbon

• Louis I 1403–1446
• John VIII (1446–1477)
• Francis (1477–1495)
  • under the regency of Louis of Joyeuse (1477–1484)
• Charles IV (1495–1514), Count of Vendôme, title raised to Duke of Vendôme and entered the peerage 1514.

[edit] Dukes of Vendôme (House of Bourbon)

• Charles IV (1514–1537)
• Antoine (1537–1562), son of Charles; King of Navarre from 1555.
• Henry (1562–1589), son of Antoine; the Duchy became part of the royal domain when he was crowned King of France in 1589.

[edit] Royal Dukes of Vendôme

• César (1598–1665), illegitimate son of Henry IV of France by Gabrielle d'Estrees, born in 1594 and legitimized in 1596
• Louis II (1665–1669), son of César
• Louis-Joseph (1669–1712), son of Louis
• Philip (1712–1727), brother of Louis-Joseph, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France
  • The Vendômois was annexed by Louis XIV of France in 1712, on the pretext that Philip's membership in the Order of Malta (as grand prior ot France) prevented him from holding them, but he retained the title.
• royal domain
• Louis III (1771–1789), later Louis XVIII of France
• royal domain

The title was revived by Orleanists claimants to the throne of France. Howewer it is invalid in French law.

• Emmanuel d'Orléans (lived 1872–1931)
• Jean, duc de Vendome (b. 1965),

[edit] English Counts of Vendôme

• Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1424–1430), created Count of Vendôme by John, Duke of Bedford as regent for Henry VI of England as King of France