The title Duke of Ayen (duc d'Ayen) was created by King Louis XV on 12 March 1737 raising the former county of Ayen to a Dukedom [1] . It was used as a courtesy title by the eldest son of the Duke of Noailles [2] . The lineage of Dukes of Ayen are cousins to the Dukes of Mouchy, [3] a cadet branch [4] of the House of Noailles [3] .
Mathieu Jean Felicité de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency-Laval was a French statesman during the French Revolution and Bourbon Restoration. He was elected as the youngest deputy to the Estates-General of 1789. He is also known for his military expertise and his relation with Mme de Staël. When France became a republic, Montmorency turned into an ultra-royalist. Napoleon regarded him as a member of the Catholic opposition. During the Restoration, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Adrien Gabriel Victurnien de Rougé, was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, and Peer of France member of the House of Rougé.
Jacques de Rougé, marquis du Plessis-Bellière (1602–1654) was a French general. He married Suzanne de Bruc de Monplaisir.
Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult de Bonneval, also known as Charles-César-Louis Loup Constance Joseph Mathieu d’Agoult de Bonneval, was a French Roman Catholic bishop, and after his resignation of his diocese a political writer.
This is a list of counts, and later dukes of the county and duchy of Ayen.
Puyricard is an agglomeration in the Bouches-du-Rhône département in Provence in the south of France, dependent on the town of Aix-en-Provence, which is approximately 10 km to the southeast. It has developed around the old village of Puyricard, which dates back to medieval times.
Charles Arthur de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Mouchy was a French aristocrat and politician.
Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency, 1st Duke of San Fernando Luis, 3rd Duke of Laval-Montmorency, GE, was a peer of France and of Spain.
Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duke of Anville, Marquis of Roucy, who was made the Duke of Anville by King Louis XV of France and pursued a military career in the French galley corps. He is best known for leading the French fleet on the disastrous Duc d'Anville Expedition to Acadia.
Victurnien de Rochechouart, 10th Duke of Mortemart was a French general and politician. He came from the Mortemart branch of the house of Rochechouart, named after the barony of Mortemart in Haute-Vienne, later raised to a marquisate and finally in December 1650 to a peer-duchy.
Jean-Baptiste Collin de Sussy was a senior official and politician. During the First French Empire he was Director-General of Customs, then Minister of Industry and Commerce.
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles was a French historian and genealogist. He was born in Orléans and died at Saint-Brieuc, now in the Côtes d'Armor département of Brittany. He published several historical and genealogical works, and was a correspondent of the Société académique d'Orléans. He was chief administrator of the charitable Asile Royal de la Providence in Paris, president of the hospices of Orléans, and a knight of the Papal Order of the Golden Spur.
Count Jean Claude Redon de Beaupréau was a French politician.
Princess Charlotte Thérèse Nathalie of Monaco was a Monegasque princess and a Visitandine nun.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Rochefoucauld was a French nobleman. He was the father of François de La Rochefoucauld author of Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales better known as the Maximes.
Louis François Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld, Viscount of La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville GE, was a 19th-century French ultra-royalist politician. From 1814 to 1836, he was aide-de-camp to Charles, Count of Artois and from 1824 to 1830, the King's Director of Fine Arts. He served in the Chamber of Deputies in 1815 and from 1827 to 1830 during the Bourbon Restoration, until his retirement from public life after the July Revolution in 1830. From 1861 to 1864 he published his memoirs with his correspondence in fifteen volumes.
Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes was a French aristocrat and politician.
Honoré Charles Marie Sosthène d'Albert de Luynes, 10th Duke of Luynes was a French aristocrat and diplomat.
Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers, 1st Baron of La Rochefoucauld-Bayers was a French soldier in the Armée des Émigrés and ultra-royalist politician during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Alexandre Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Count of Chabot, then Prince of Leon, 7th Duke of Rohan, Count of Porhoët, was Colonel of the Régiment Royal of the County of Artois, Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies, First Gentleman of the Chamber of King Louis XVIII and hereditary Peer of France.
