Extinct Duke-Peer Titles

Ineligible Duke-Peer Title

Notes

French Ducal Order of Precedence: Restoration Chamber of Peers List (4 June 1814)

Appendix A: Changes in the Ducal Peerage 1789-1814

By Stephen Millar

1. Extinct Duke-Peer Titles

1. Biron (created and registered 1723; 22.02.1723; extinct 31.12.1793)

Armand-Louis de Gontaut,� duc de Biron (1747-31.12.1793) inheirited the title from his father Charles-Antoine-Armand de Gontaut (brevet duc de Gontaut) after he resigned the duchy in 1788. [1]

2. Villeroy (created 1651, registered in 1663, 15.12.1663; extinct 28.04.1794)

Gabriel-Louis de Neufville (08.10.1731-28.04.1794)

3. Aiguillon (created and registered 1638; peerage restored 1731; 19.05.1638; extinct 04.05.1800) [2]

Armand-Desire de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu, duc d�Aiguillon (1761-04.05.1800) inheirited the title from his father Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu in 1788.

4. Charost (created 1672; registered 1690; 18.08.1690; ducal line extinct 27.10.1800)

Armand-Joseph de Bethune, duc de Charost (01.07.1738-27.10.1800) inheirited the title from Francois-Joseph de Bethune in 1747. His son Armand-Louis de Bethune, marquis de Charost, was guillotined on 28.04.1794.

5. Albret/Chateau-Thierry (created 1651; registered 1665; 01.12.1665; extinct 02.1802)

Jacques-Leopold-Charles-Godefroy de La Tour d�Auvergne, duc de Bouillon (1746-02.1802).

6. Sully (created and registered 1606; 09.03.1609; ducal line extinct 1807)

Maximilien-Alexandre de Bethune d�Orval, duc de Sully (1784-1807)� inheirited the title from his father Maximilien-Gabriel-Louis de Bethune in 1800.

7. Nevers (created and registered 1720; 31.12.1720; extinct 1808)

Adelaide-Pauline-Rosalie de Cosse, duchesse de Mortemart was the last holder of this peerage. [3]

2. Ineligible Duke-Peer Title

The following Duke-Peer was ineligable for inclusion in the Chamber of Peers because he was a British subject:

1. Aubigny (created 1684; registered 1777; 01.07.1777; ducal line continues)

Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Lennox; duc d�Aubigny (09.12.1764-28.08.1819) inheirited his title from his uncle Charles Lennox on 29.12.1806.

Notes:

[1] Three members of this ducal house resigned the title of duc de Biron (1733, 1739 and 1788).

[2] This title was created in 1638 for a niece of Cardinal de Richelieu.

[3] The 2nd duc de Nevers (Louis-Jules-Barbon de Mazarini-Mancini) died on 25.02.1798 with no male heirs.

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