445:, comte de Laval. Her younger daughter Anne married in 1521 Louis I de La Trémoïlle, vicomte de Thouars. By this connection the La Trémoïlle claimed the title "Prince of Tarento", along with the inheritance of Montmorency-Laval (it had passed to the Rieux family on the death of Guy XVI in 1531, then through Claude de Rieux, comtesse de Laval et Montfort, to François de Coligny in 1547, and on the death in 1605 of his grandson Guy XX, to the La Trémoïlle). Henri-Charles (1599–1674), duc de Thouars, received royal confirmation of the rank of
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Munster, Nijmegen and Ryswyk, but without success. On November 6, 1748, the La Trémoïlle family made a final protest concerning their rights to the kingdom of Naples which had been yielded by the Treaty of Vienna of 1738 to the King of Sicily.
346:(1552–1588) in 1586, but when he died suddenly six months before the birth of their only son in September 1588, she was imprisoned on suspicion of having poisoned her husband to prevent the child's rejection as a bastard, although the king recognized the child as
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and had it raised to a dukedom for his son in 1730, but the latter died without issue in 1759 and the title of
Talmond returned to the eldest branch. The 13th and last duke of Thouars, 13th prince de Tarente and 17th prince de Talmond died in 1933.
188:, is believed to have slowed her crusade's momentum against the English, allowing them to capture and burn her at the stake in 1431. His family's rise to wealth and power made him a target, and he was ransomed after capture thrice; after the
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Noirmoutier (extinct 1733).
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983:. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Palgrave Macmillan. 1999. p. 80.
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476:In 1643 he asserted his rights to that crown
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746:in 1595, and married a daughter of
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340:Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille
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235:in 1525. In 1485 he had wed the
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618:(1881–1967), head of the
470:lordship of Châtellerault
415:Anne de Laval (1505–1554)
154:Louis II, Duke of Bourbon
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130:Grand Panetier of France
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669:chevalier sans reproche
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1189:
1186:La Trémoille
1154:
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1105:La Trémoïlle
1104:
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963:Père Anselme
837:
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681:Italian Wars
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623:cadet branch
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911:(1642–1722)
882:(1396), and
554:Joan of Arc
479:jure uxoris
427:Ferdinand I
385:Bois-le-Duc
356:, in 1601.
306:during the
186:Joan of Arc
1203:Categories
1061:, 344–345.
916:References
756:, daughter
740:Protestant
645:Chief line
587:Charles IX
524:Extinction
484:Louis XIII
435:Alfonso II
417:, wife of
354:Louis XIII
286:Charles IX
262:seigneurie
221:Marseilles
117:in Egypt.
50:department
894:Praguerie
750:in 1598.
571:Charlotte
439:Charlotte
373:Carignano
314:in 1587,
304:Huguenots
299:Parlement
213:Louis XII
198:Montrésor
162:Nicopolis
150:Oriflamme
111:St. Louis
95:Holy Land
63:male line
59:Huguenots
1043:(1973).
834:Branches
597:Henry IV
517:dynastic
399:sinecure
259:allodial
251:Du Cange
229:Imperial
209:Lombardy
205:Louis II
174:Boulogne
148:, whose
142:Burgundy
115:Mansoura
99:crusader
76:seigneur
1179::
1047:(ed.).
900:(1415).
716:Thouars
694:(1515).
687:(1525).
675:at the
657:, etc.
655:Talmont
651:Thouars
620:Antoing
583:dukedom
534:Tarente
490:" as a
488:Taranto
334:leader
312:Coutras
294:peerage
264:in the
217:Novarra
93:to the
47:in the
1173:
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592:pairie
369:Corbie
266:Vendée
194:Chinon
178:Guînes
158:Rhodes
87:Poitou
55:Vienne
41:Poitou
35:French
1142:Ligne
1055:Paris
544:) in
502:court
332:Dutch
324:Rouen
122:liege
103:Reims
97:as a
985:ISBN
633:as "
460:and
451:arms
316:Ivry
211:for
176:and
82:sire
79:(or
28:The
1188:".
1059:121
595:by
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