The County of Aumale, later elevated to a duchy, was a medieval fief in Normandy, disputed between France and England during parts of the Hundred Years' War.
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu, was a French soldier, diplomat and statesman. He joined the army and participated in three major wars. He eventually rose to the rank of Marshal of France.
The title of Duke of Noailles was a French peerage created in 1663 for Anne de Noailles, Count of Ayen.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles was a French nobleman and soldier.
Louis Marie de Noailles, Viscount of Noailles was the second son of Philippe, duc de Mouchy, and a member of Mouchy branch of the famous Noailles family of the French aristocracy.
Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles and later prince de Poix, duc de Mouchy, and duc de Poix à brevêt, was a younger brother of Louis de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother. He was the son of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.
Jean de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles was a French nobleman and scientist.
Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles was a French peer and Marshal of France.
Anne Jules de Noailles, 2nd Duke of Noailles was one of the chief generals of France towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and, after raising the regiment of Noailles in 1689, he commanded in Spain during both the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of the Spanish Succession, and was made marshal of France in 1693.
Louis Antoine de Noailles, Cardinal de Noailles, second son of Anne de Noailles, 1st Duke of Noailles, was a French bishop and cardinal. His signing of the Unigenitus bull in 1728 would end the formal Jansenist controversy.
Duke of Mouchy was a hereditary title in the peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1747 by Ferdinand VI to Philippe de Noailles, a French military officer. After failure of the 1st Duke's successors in inheriting the dukedom through the established legal procedures, the title expired in the Kingdom of Spain. Withal, it was bestowed by Louis XVIII of France on the eldest son of the 1st Duke in 1817 as a title in the French peerage.
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France.
Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles became admiral of France, and was ambassador in England for three years, 1553–1556, maintaining a gallant but unsuccessful rivalry with the Spanish ambassador, Simon Renard.
Henri de Noailles, comte d'Ayen (1554–1623), son of Antoine, was a commander in the religious wars, and was made comte d'Ayen by Henry IV in 1593.
Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles, Marquis of Noailles was a French diplomat.
The Gardes du Corps du Roi was the senior formation of the King of France's household cavalry within the maison militaire du roi de France.
Anne Louise, Duchess of Noailles, was a French courtier. She served as dame d'atour to the queen dowager of France, Anne of Austria, from 1657 until 1666.
Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Duke of Antin, was a French courtier, freemason and male-line great-grandson of Madame de Montespan.
Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine, comte de Noailles, prince-duc de Poix, and 2nd Spanish and 1st French duc de Mouchy, was a French soldier, and politician of the Revolution.
The title Duke of Ayen was created by King Louis XV on 12 March 1737 raising the former county of Ayen to a Dukedom It was used as a courtesy title by the eldest son of the Duke of Noailles The Duke of Ayen are cousins of the Dukes of Mouchy a cadet branch of the House of Noailles
