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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 921 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUMALE , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-Inferieure, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Bresle, 47 M. N.E. of See also:Rouen on the Northern railway. Pop. (1906) 1999. The See also:church is an interesting See also:building of the 16th and 17th centuries, and has a portal attributed to See also:Jean See also:Goujon. The town has See also:glass and See also:steel See also:works. The territory of Aumale (See also:Albemarle, Aubemale, Aumerle; See also:Lat. See also:Alba Marla) in See also:Normandy, a dependency of the archbishopric of Rouen, was granted to See also:Odo of See also:Champagne, See also:brother-in-See also:law of See also:William the Conqueror, who founded the first See also:line of See also:counts of Aumale. Hawise (Hadwide, Havoise or Avoie), countess of Aumale, after the See also:death of her first See also:husband William de See also:Mandeville, See also:earl of See also:Essex (d. 1189), married William See also:des Forts (de Fors, or de Fortz; Lat. de Fortibus), a military adventurer who had been one of the commanders of the See also:fleet under See also:Richard I. during his first crusade. He died in 1195, and his widow married See also:Baldwin de Betun, who became See also:count of Aumale in her right. He died in 1213, and in 1214 William de Fortibus, son of Hawise by her second husband, was confirmed by See also:King See also:John in all his See also:mother's lanjis.

Meanwhile, however, the territory of Aumale shared the See also:

fate of the See also:rest of Normandy, and was annexed to the See also:French See also:crown by King See also:Philip See also:Augustus; but the See also:title of earl of Albemarle, derived from it, continued to be See also:borne in See also:England by William de Fortibus, and was passed on to his heirs (see ALBEMARLE). Aumale itself was conferred by Philip Augustus as an See also:appanage on his son Philip. It was subsequently granted by See also:Louis VIII. to See also:Simon, count of See also:Dammartin, whose daughter, Jeanne, countess of Dammartin, transferred it, together with the countship of Ponthieu, to the See also:house of See also:Castile, by her See also:marriage with See also:Ferdinand III., king of Castile, called the See also:Saint (1238). It then remained in the See also:possession of a See also:branch of her descendants bearing the name of Ponthieu, until it passed to the house of See also:Harcourt on the marriage of See also:Blanche of Ponthieu with John, count of Harcourt (1340). See also:Marie d'Harcourt (d. 1476), heiress of Aumale, married See also:Anthony of See also:Lorraine, count of Vaudemont, and Aumale was created a duchy in the See also:peerage of France for See also:Claude and See also:Francis of Lorraine in 1547. By the marriage of See also:Anne of Lorraine with the See also:duke of See also:Nemours in 1618 the duchy of Aumale passed to the house of See also:Savoy-Nemours. In 1686 Marie Jeanne See also:Baptiste, duchess of Nemours and of Aumale, and wife of See also:Charles See also:Emmanuel II., duke of Savoy, sold Aumale to Louis XIV., who gave it to his natural son, the duke of See also:Maine. After the death of that See also:prince, the dukedom devolved upon his brother, the count of See also:Toulouse, subsequently passing to the latter's son, the duke of Penthievre, whose daughter married the duke of See also:Orleans. Since the reign of Louis Philippe, king of the French, the title of duke of Aumale has been borne by a son of the duke of Orleans.

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