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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAMMARTIN , a small See also:

town of See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine et See also:Marne, 22 M. N.E. of See also:Paris. It is well situated on a See also:hill forming See also:part of the See also:plateau of la Goele, and is known as Dammartin-en-Goele to distinguish it from Dammartin-sous-Tigeaux, a small See also:commune in the same department. Dammartin is historically important as the seat of a countship of which the holders played a considerable part in See also:French See also:history. The earliest recorded See also:count of Dammartin was a certain See also:Hugh, who made himself See also:master of the town in the loth See also:century; but his See also:dynasty was replaced by another See also:family in the 11th century. Reynald I. (Renaud), count of Dammartin (d. 1227), who was one of the See also:coalition crushed by See also:King See also:Philip See also:Augustus at the See also:battle of See also:Bouvines (1214), See also:left two co-heiresses, of whom the See also:elder, Maud (See also:Matilda or Mahaut), married Philip Hurepel, son of Philip Augustus, and the second, Alix, married See also:Jean de Trie, in whose See also:line the countship was reunited after the See also:death of Philip Hurepel's son Alberic. The countship passed, through heiresses, to the houses of Fayel and See also:Nanteuil, and in the 15th century was acquired by See also:Antoine de Chabannes (d. 1488), one of the favourites of King See also:Charles VII., by his See also:marriage with See also:Marguerite, heiress of Reynald V. of Nanteuil-Aci and See also:Marie of Dammartin. This Antoine de Chabannes, count of Dammartin in right of his wife, fought under the See also:standard of See also:Joan of Arc, became a See also:leader of the Ecorcheurs, took part in the See also:war of the public weal against See also:Louis XI., and then fought for him against the Burgundians. The collegiate See also:church at Dammartin was founded by him in 148o, and his See also:tomb and effigy are in the See also:chancel.

His son, Jean de Chabannes, left three heiresses, of whom the second left a daughter who brought the countship to Philippe de See also:

Boulainvilliers, by whose heirs it was sold in 1554 to' the See also:dukes of See also:Montmorency. In 1632 the countship was confiscated by Louis XIII. and bestowed on the princes of See also:Conde.

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