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Count of Valentinois (French : Compte de Valentinois ; Italian : Conteggio dei Valentino ), is an extinct title in the French peerage . It later became the Duke of Valentinois . It originally indicated administrative control of the County of Valentinois (Valentia). Location within France Valence is a commune in south-eastern France, the capital of the département of Drôme, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, 65 miles south of Lyon on the railway to Marseille. ...
The status of Peer of France was held by the greatest and highest-ranking of the French nobility. ...
Duke of Valentinois (French: Duc de Valentinois; Italian: Duca Valentino), formerly Count of Valentinois, is an extinct title in the French peerage, and is currently one of the many hereditary titles of the Prince of Monaco. ...
Location within France Valence is a commune in south-eastern France, the capital of the département of Drôme, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, 65 miles south of Lyon on the railway to Marseille. ...
List of Counts of Valentinois
879 –912 : Adalelme (or Alleaume) 912 –943 : Boson, son of Adalalme 943 –960 : Geilin I ... 985 –??: Lambert 1???–1???: Aimar (or Adhémar) 1058 –??: Geilin II
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From the i2th to the 1 5th century Valentinois belonged to a family of Poitiers, which must not be confused with that of the counts of Poitiers.
The new duchy of Valentinois , however, did not consist of the lands attached to the former one, but was made up of several scattered lordships in Dauphine.
The title of duke of Valentinois is still borne by the prince of Monaco.
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