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 Duke of Ayen are cousins of the Dukes of Mouchy [3] a cadet branch [4] of the House of Noailles [3]
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.
Bonabes Louis Victurnien, Marquess of Rougé, Peer of France, was a French military officer and statesman.
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.
Yolanda of Lusignan or Yolande I de Lusignan, Countess of La Marche was a French noblewoman and peeress. In 1308, she succeeded her brother Guy I as suo jure Dame of Lusignan, of Couhé and of Peyrat, and suo jure Countess of La Marche, but not as Countess of Angoulême since after her brother's death the county was sold by her sisters, Joan and Isabelle, to King Philip IV and annexed to the French Crown. Yolanda was also the heiress of Fougères, which she succeeded to upon her mother's death sometime after 1273.
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.
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 de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Thomas de la Valette, Count of la Valette, was a former noble turned Robespierrist.
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.
Catherine de la Tour du Pin, was the tenth child of Humbert I of Viennois and Anne d'Albon. She married Philip I of Piedmont, with whom she had eleven children, including James of Piedmont.
Princess Charlotte Thérèse Nathalie of Monaco was a Monegasque princess and Catholic nun.
François-Jules-Gaspard de Contades, Vicomte de Contades was a French aristocrat and soldier who was known as the Chevalier de Contades.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Rochefoucauld was a French nobleman by birth. Upon his father's death in 15 March 1591 he inherited the title Count of La Rochefoucauld which he remained till 22 April 1622 when King Louis XIII raised his county of La Rochefoucauld to a dukedom with the influence of his mother Queen Marie de' Medici having attended her coronation on May 14, 1610 He was the father of François de La Rochefoucauld author of Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales better known as the Maximes
François de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld was a French nobleman who succeeded his father as Duke of La Rochefoucauld and Grand Huntsman of France in January 1714 having already succeeded him as Grand Huntsman of France.
