This list is about the lords, counts and dukes who ruled over Montfort-l'Amaury, France.
Around ten years before 1000 AD, Robert the Pious commissioned Guillaume de Hainaut with protecting the royal domain around Paris from the counts of Blois to the west. Guillaume built a castle on a hill and called it Montfort; his son Amaury founded a town nearby which received the name of Montfort-l'Amaury, thus becoming the first seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury.
After Claude's death in 1524, Francis I of France inherited his wife's property under their marriage contract. This marked the end of the common fate of Brittany and Montfort. Brittany's attachment to France became definitive in 1547, although in 1524 the King already had the county of Montfort in his possession as part of the French domaine royal. [5] [6]
By letters dated November 1667, King Louis XIV allowed Charles Honoré d'Albert, 3rd Duke of Luynes and his descendants, to bear the honorary title of Count of Montfort-l'Amaury, which he raised to Duke in 1692.
Charles d'Albert, 1st Duke of Luynes was a French courtier and a favourite of Louis XIII. In 1619, the king made him Duke of Luynes and a Peer of France, and in 1621, Constable of France. Luynes died of scarlet fever near the end of that year at the height of his influence.
Amaury de Montfort, Lord of Montfort-l'Amaury, was the son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and Alix de Montmorency, and the older brother of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. Amaury inherited his father's French properties while his brother Simon inherited the English title of Earl of Leicester.
Montfort-l'Amaury is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It is located 20 km (12 mi) north of Rambouillet. The name comes from Amaury I de Montfort, the first seigneur (lord) of Montfort.
The House of Rohan is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany. Their line descends from the viscounts of Porhoët and is said to trace back to the legendary Conan Meriadoc. Through the Porhoët family, the Rohans are related to the Dukes of Brittany, with whom the family intermingled again after its inception. During the Middle Ages, it was one of the most powerful families in the Duchy of Brittany. The Rohans developed ties with the French and English royal houses as well, and they played an important role in French and European history.
Amaury III de Montfort was a French nobleman, the Seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury, Épernon, and Houdan in the Île-de-France and Count of Évreux in Normandy.
Robert IV of Dreux (1241–1282), Count of Dreux, Braine and Montfort-l'Amaury, was the son of John I of Dreux and Marie of Bourbon.
The Count of Évreux was a French noble title and was named for the county of Évreux in Normandy. It was successively used by the Norman dynasty, the Montfort-l'Amaury family, the Capetians as well as the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. The title is today used by Prince Michel, Count of Évreux, a member of the House of Orléans.
The Duke of Luynes is a territorial name belonging to the noble French house d'Albert. Luynes is, today, a commune of the Indre-et-Loire département in France. The family of Albert, which sprang from Thomas Alberti, seigneur de Boussargues, bailli of Viviers and Valence, and viguier of Bagnols and Pont-Saint-Esprit in Languedoc, acquired the estate of Luynes in the 16th century.
Honoré Théodore Paul Joseph d'Albert, 8th Duke of Luynes was a wealthy French nobleman and scholar. He is most remembered for the collection of exhibits he gave to the Cabinet des Médailles in 1862, and for supporting the exiled Comte de Chambord's claim to the throne of France. Throughout his life, D'Albert inherited a number of French titles, including Duke of Luynes, de Chevreuse, and de Chaulnes.
Paul d'Albert was a French prelate. He was elected the seventh occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1743.
The title of Duke of Chaulnes, a French peerage, is held by the d'Albert family beginning in 1621.
Charles d'Albert, 3rd Duke of Chaulnes, was a French general and diplomat. He was made lieutenant général des armées in 1655, and chevalier des ordres du roi from 1661. He became third Duke of Chaulnes in 1653 on the death of his elder brother.
Honoré d'Albert, 1st Duke of Chaulnes, Marshal of France, Vidame of Amiens and Seigneur of Picquigny through his marriage to Claire Charlotte Eugénie d'Ailly, Countess of Chaulnes, was the first Duke of Chaulnes, a title created by Louis XIII in 1621.
Charles Honoré d'Albert de Luynes was a French nobleman and Duke of Luynes. He is best known as the Duke of Chevreuse, his family's subsidiary title which he used until his father's death in 1690. He was a high-ranking French official under King Louis XIV.
Simon III de Montfort, nicknamed the Bald, was count of Évreux from 1140 until 1181 and the Seigneur of Montfort from 1137 to 1181. He was the son of Amaury III and Agnès de Garlande, daughter of Anseau de Garlande.
Antoinette d'Albert was a French court official. She served as the dame d'atour to the queen of France, Anne of Austria, between 1615 and 1626.
The Priory of Haute-Bruyère, also known as the Priory of Our Lady of Haute-Bruyère, is a monastery of the Order of Fontevrault near Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré in Yvelines, Île-de-France received both men and women.
Louis Charles d'Albert, 2nd Duke of Luynes, was a French nobleman and peer of France. He was a translator and moralist who was the first translator of the work of René Descartes.
Louis Joseph d'Albert, 3rd Prince of Grimberghen was a French nobleman who was in the service of the Emperor Charles VII, and became field-marshal and Ambassador in France.
Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, 9th Duke of Luynes was a French aristocrat and soldier in the Papal Zouaves.