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Place in France
La Marche
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CountryFrance
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Map of France in 1154, showing location of County of La Marche

The County of La Marche (French pronunciation: [maʁʃ]; Occitan: la Marcha) was a medieval French county, approximately corresponding to the modern département of Creuse and the northern half of Haute Vienne.

La Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when William III, Duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals, Boson, who took the title of Count. In the 12th century, the countship passed to the House of Lusignan. They also were sometimes counts of Angoulême and counts of Limousin.

With the death of the childless Count Guy in 1308, his possessions in La Marche were seized by Philip IV of France. In 1314, the king made La Marche an appanage for his youngest son the Prince, afterwards Charles IV. Several years later in 1327, La Marche passed into the hands of the House of Bourbon. The family of Armagnac held it from 1435 to 1477, when it reverted to the Bourbons.

In 1527 La Marche was seized by Francis I and became part of the domains of the French crown. It was divided into Haute Marche and Basse Marche, the estates of the former continuing until the 17th century. From 1470 until the Revolution, the province was under the jurisdiction of the parlement of Paris.

Counts of La Marche

La Marche dynasty

  • Boso I le Vieux (the Old), count of La Marche and count of Périgord (958–988)
  • Aldebert I, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–997)
    • Boso II, count of La Marche and Périgord (988–1010)
  • Bernard I (1010–1041)
    • His daughter, Almodis, married firstly with Hugh V of Lusignan, and their son Hugh VI inherited later the county of Marche by her right.
  • Aldebert II (1047–1088), son of Bernard I
  • Boso III (1088–1091), son of Aldebert II
    • Eudes I, son of Bernard I, probably ruled as regent for his nephew Boso III (1088)

Lusignan dynasty

Capetian dynasty

Capetian-Bourbon dynasty

Armagnac dynasty

Capetian-Bourbon dynasty

Orleanist pretenders to Count of La Marche

The title was granted to Thibaut, a younger son of Henri, the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France.

  • Prince Thibaut, Count of La Marche (1948–1983)
  • Prince Robert, Count of La Marche (b. 1976, r. 1983- )

See also

References

  1. "Marche | historical province, France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  2. de Vasselot de Régné, Clément (2019). "Un succès méconnu des derniers Capétiens : l'annexion des domaines des Lusignan et l'usage du concept de lèse-majesté (1308-1327)". Revue historique. 692 (4): 833–858. doi:10.3917/rhis.194.0833. ISSN 0035-3264. S2CID 239070247.
  3. "The Online Froissart". www.dhi.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  4. "Branche des comtes de La Marche". Archived from the original on 24 February 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  5. "Marche | historical province, France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
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