Confiscated by King Francis I, the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and to her son Louis (1513-1582), and was erected into a duchy in the peerage of France (duché-pairie) in 1539. Marie, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Montpensier, brought the duchy to her husband Gaston, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII, whom she married in 1626, and their daughter and heiress, known as La Grande Mademoiselle was duchess of Montpensier.
The title subsequently remained in the Orléans family, and was borne in particular by Antoine Philippe (1775-1807), son of Philippe Egalité, and by Antoine Marie Philippe Louis (1824-1890), son of King Louis-Philippe and father-in-law of King Alphonso XII of Spain. Mademoiselle de Montpensier was a title conferred to some women of the royal family, namely during the years previous to the French Revolution.
Ambrose Maréchal Guillaume de Joyeuse, and was a brother of the Admiral Anne de Joyeuse and of the prelate François de Joyeuse.
As a young man, when he was known as the Comte de Bouchage, he felt attracted to the religious life and confided this desire to the guardian of the Cordeliers of Toulouse.
The Cardinal de Joyeuse, the Parlement, and the clergy all thought of placing P. Ange in command of the troops against the Huguenots as Governor of Languedoc.
LOUIS PHILIPPE I., king of the French (1773-1850), was the eldest son of Louis Philip Joseph, duke of Orleans (known during the Revolution as Philippe Egalite) and of Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon, daughter of the ducde Penthievre, and was born at the Palais Royal in Paris on the 6th of October 17 73.
Known since 1785 as the ducde Chartres, he was sixteen at the outbreak of the Revolution, into which - like his father - he threw himself with ardour.
On the 18th of May 1807 the ducdeMontpensier died at Christchurch in Hampshire, where he had been taken for change of air, of consumption.
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