The Duchy of Berry was a former province located in central France. It was a province of France until departments replaced the provinces on 4 March 1790, when Berry became divided between the départements of Cher and Indre.
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.
Jean-Louis-Paul-François 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. He was the son of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon, and a nephew of Marie Victoire de Noailles, daughter-in-law of Louis XIV of France.
Adrien Maurice Victurnien Mathieu de Noailles, 8th Duke of Noailles, son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles, acceded to the title of Duke of Noailles on his father's death in 1895. He was succeeded by his nephew, François de Noailles.
François-Agénor-Alexandre-Hélie de Noailles, 9th Duke of Noailles was the nephew of Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles. His parents were Marquis Hélie Guillaume de Noailles and Corisande de Gramont, daughter of Duke de Gramont and Marguerite de Rothschild.
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 Jean Marie de Bourbon was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was therefore a grandson of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. From birth he was known as the Duke of Penthièvre. He also possessed the following titles: Prince of Lamballe ; Prince of Carignano; Duke of Rambouillet; Duke of Aumale (1775); Duke of Gisors; Duke of Châteauvillain; Duke of Arc-en-Barrois; Duke of Amboise; Count of Eu; Count of Guingamp. He was the father in law of Philippe Égalité.
In the 11th and 12th centuries the Countship of Penthièvre in Brittany belonged to a branch of the sovereign House of Brittany. It initially belonged to the House of Rennes. Alan III, Duke of Brittany, gave it to his brother Eudes in 1035, and his descendants formed a cadet branch of the ducal house.
La Tour d'Auvergne was a noble French dynasty. Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century. Its cadet branch, extinct in 1802, ruled the duchy of Bouillon in the Southern Netherlands from 1594, and held the dukedoms of Albret and Château-Thierry in the peerage of France since 1660. The name was also borne by Philippe d'Auvergne, an alleged collateral of the original Counts of Auvergne, and was adopted by the famous soldier Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, who descended from an illegitimate line of the family.
The Life Guards was the senior formation of the King of France's Household Cavalry within the Maison militaire du roi de France.
Ayen is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.
Hélie Marie Auguste Jacques Bertrand Philippe de Noailles, 10th Duke of Noailles, simply known as Hélie de Noailles, is a French nobleman, diplomat and trade representative. He was styled with the courtesy title duc d'Ayen from 1953 till 2009, and currently with the French title duc de Noailles.
Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, 6th Duke of Ayen was the son of Adrien de Noailles, 8th Duke of Noailles.
Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, Duchess of Noailles, Princess of Tingry, was a French salon hostess and duchess, the heiress of her grandfather, Henri François d'Aguesseau, and wife of Jean Louis François de Noailles, Count and Duke of Ayen.
Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, Prince-Duc de Poix was a cadet of the French ducal house of Noailles, and second in succession to the senior title. He was the eldest son of Henri-Antoine-Marie de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, Prince-Duc de Poix, and of Marie de La Rochefoucauld. Following his marriage to Joan Dillon, he became managing director of Domaine Clarence Dillon. Together, the couple acquired Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Château Laville Haut-Brion and Château La Tour Haut-Brion.
The Château de Maintenon is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir département of France. It is best known as being the private residence of the second spouse of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon.
Françoise Charlotte Amable d'Aubigné, Duchess of Noailles was a French aristocrat, the wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles. She was the niece of Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, and her heiress.