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Maine (Traditional province, France) (637 words) |
 | Maine was given in 1248 to St. Louis' brother, Charles of Anjou, founder of the second house of Anjou. |
| The title of duke of Maine was borne, without territorial privilege, by Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (1670-1736), legitimized son of king Louis XIV and madame de Montespan. |
| The Cellamare's plot was foiled and the duke of Maine was jailed from 1718 to 1720. |
| Dombes - LoveToKnow 1911 (653 words) |
| In 1400, Louis II., duke of Bourbon, acquired the northern part of the Dombes, together with the lordship of Beaujeu, and two years later bought the southern part from the sires de Thoire, forming the whole into a new sovereign principality of the Dombes, with Trevoux as its capital. |
| In 1561 it was granted to Louis, duke of BourbonMontpensier, by whose descendants it was held till, in 1682, "Mademoiselle," the duchess of Montpensier, gave it to Louis XIV.'s bastard, the duke of Maine, as part of the price for the release of her lover Lauzun. |
| The eldest son of the duke of Maine, Louis Auguste de Bourbon (1700-1755), prince of Dombes, served in the army of Prince Eugene against the Turks (1717), took part in the War of the Polish Succession (1733-1734), and in that of the Austrian Succession (1742-1747). |
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