Coats of arms of the Dukes of Longueville

Duke of Longueville (''

Longueville-sur-Scie Longueville-sur-Scie (, literally ''Longueville on Scie'') is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming village situated by the banks of the river Scie in the Pays de Caux, some ...

'') was a title of

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, though not a

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History

The title was created in 1505 by King Louis XII of France for his

first cousin once removed Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, ...

, François d'Orléans,

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, son of François d'Orléans, Count of Dunois, son of Jean d'Orléans, himself an illegitimate son of the Duke of Orléans. The title became extinct in 1694, following the death of Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans, who was the brother of

Marie de Nemours Marie de Nemours, originally known as Marie d'Orléans-Longueville (1625–1707), was Princess of Neuchâtel from 1694 to 1707. She was the daughter of Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and Louise de Bourbon. After the death of her brother ...

. From 1648, the Duke of Longueville was also Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel, a Swiss territory. In 1654, the eighth duke was created a peer as Duke of Coulommiers, but the peerage was never registered and so became extinct at his death.

Dukes of Longueville

# François II (1478–1513). #

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(1480–1516), brother of the preceding. # Claude (1508–1524), son of the preceding. # Louis II (1510–1537), brother of the preceding. # François III (1535–1551), son of the preceding. #

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(1540–1573), first cousin of the preceding. # Henri I (1568–1595), son of the preceding. # Henri II (1595–1663), son of the preceding. # Jean Louis Charles (1646–1694), son of the preceding. He resigned the title to his brother in 1668. # Charles Paris (1649–1672), brother of the preceding. On his death, the title went back to his brother. # Jean Louis Charles (1646–1694).

Other members of the family

* Jean d'Orléans, brother of the first and second dukes. * Marie of Lorraine ("Mary of Guise"), wife of the fourth duke. * Jacqueline de Rohan, mother of the sixth duke. * Françoise d'Orléans, Princess of Condé, sister of the sixth duke. * the Dukes of Fronsac, descended from the sixth duke. *

Louise de Bourbon Louise de Bourbon (2 February 1603 – 9 September 1637) called ''Mademoiselle de Soissons'' was the wife of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. She was the mother of the famous Marie de Nemours. Life The eldest daughter of Charles de ...

and

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon (28 August 16195 April 1679) was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism. Biography Early life Anne Ge ...

, wives of the eighth duke. *

, daughter of the eighth and sister of the ninth and tenth dukes. *

Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (5 August 1691, in Paris – 17 July 1744) was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious bel ...

, descended from an illegitimate half-brother of the sixth duke. *Princess Charlotte Louise de Rohan wife of

Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien (''duc d'Enghien'' pronounced ) (Louis Antoine Henri; 2 August 1772 – 21 March 1804) was a member of the House of Bourbon of France. More famous for his death than for his life, he was executed on char ...

References

* http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/peerage2.htm * {{Better source, date=August 2012 * http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Swiss_Cantons2.html#Neuchatel Dukes of Longueville House of Valois