| House of Castellane | |
|---|---|
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| Current region | Provence |
| Connected families | Talleyrand-Périgord Noailles Gould |
| Estate(s) | Château de Rochecotte Nesvizh Castle |
The House of Castellane is a very ancient French noble house originating in Provence and descended from Thibault, count of Arles in the 9th century.
Boniface, 1st sovereign baron [1] de Castellane, lived in the 11th century. The sovereign barons de Castellane ruled over a small state [2] bordering the Haute-Provence until the beginning of the 13th century, rendering homage to their overlord the count of Provence.
Even after this they retained de jure sovereignty: "
"Even after having been forced to pay homage to the Counts of Provence, these powerful feudal lords retained the fullness of the authority they exercised over their vassals."
According to Lumens (Histoire de Castellane, published by J.-B. Shares...[t]he town, the castle and the rock of Castellane and declared him sovereign after the example of his elders;
In 1993, king Juan Carlos I rehabilitated the title of Duke of Almazán de Saint Priest on a descendant of the first duke, Louis Provence Boniface de Castellane (1912–1996), who became the 2nd Duke de Almazán de Saint Priest, with his daughter Béatrice Marguerite Marie-Thérèse de Castellane (b. 1944) following him as 3rd Duchess de Almazán de Saint Priest.
Anna Gould was an American socialite and heiress as a daughter of financier Jay Gould.
Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane, known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading Belle Époque tastemaker and the first husband of American railroad heiress Anna Gould.
Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Duchess of Talleyrand and Duchess of Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino, was a Baltic German noblewoman, and the ruling Duchess of Sagan between 1845 and 1862. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland, and although her mother's husband, Duke Peter von Biron, acknowledged her as his own, her true father may have been the Polish statesman Count Aleksander Batowski. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord; she was the separated wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
The House of Talleyrand-Périgord is an ancient French noble house. A well-known member of this family was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who achieved distinction as a French statesman and diplomat. The family name became extinct in 2003 upon the death of Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord.
Esprit Victor Elisabeth Boniface de Castellane, comte de Castellane, was a French military officer and ultimately a Marshal of France.
The Château de Rochecotte is a late 18th-century château located in the French village of Saint-Patrice, near Langeais, in Indre-et-Loire. It is known for its various owners and their many successive rebuilds.
Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, 2nd Duke of Talleyrand, 2nd Duke of Dino, was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars.
Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince of Sagan, duke of Sagan and duke of Talleyrand was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron.
Joséphine Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquise de Castellane was a French noblewoman.
Henri Charles Louis Boniface, Marquis de Castellane was a French politician and nobleman.
Princess Marie Radziwill was a French noblewoman, a member of the house of Castellane. The famous dandy Boni de Castellane was her nephew.
Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 5th Duke of Talleyrand and Dino, Prince, then Duke of Sagan, was a French socialite and son of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord.
Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, 3rd duc de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French aristocrat, soldier and politician.
Marie Dorothée Louise de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French aristocrat most notable for her salons and her role in European high-society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as "Dolly" to her friends, she inspired artists and writers including Marcel Proust. She was the half-sister of the prince de Sagan, who had dual French and Prussian nationality and sat in the Prussian House of Lords.
Charles Egon IV, Prince of Fürstenberg was a German military officer and nobleman who was the head of the House of Fürstenberg from 1892 to 1896.
Marquis Boniface Antoine de Castellane was a French aristocrat, most notable as deputy for Cantal and as father of Boni de Castellane.
The House of Rohan-Chabot is a French noble family. It was established as a result of the marriage in 1645 between Henri Chabot and Marguerite de Rohan, the sole heiress of the Duchy of Rohan. The Rohan-Chabot family is the eldest branch of the House of Chabot, a French noble family originally from Poitou.
Count Maximilian Friedrich Karl Franz von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg was a Prussian aristocrat and diplomat. By birth he was member of an ancient House of Hatzfeld.
Erasmus-Henri de Contades, Marquis de Contades was a French diplomat and politician.
Méry de Contades, Marquis de Contades was a French aristocrat and politician.
One of the most eccentric military notabilities of the present epoch, the Marshal Count Castellane, has just died at Lyons.