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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 491 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOINVILLE , the name of a See also:

French See also:noble See also:family of See also:Champagne, which traced its descent from See also:Etienne de See also:Vaux, who lived at the beginning of the 11th See also:century. Geoffroi III. (d. 1184), sire de Joinville, who accompanied See also:Henry the Liberal, See also:count of Champagne, to the See also:Holy See also:Land in n47, received from him the See also:office of See also:seneschal, and this office became hereditary in the See also:house of Joinville. In 1203 Geoffroi V., sire de Joinville, died while on a crusade, leaving no See also:children. He was succeeded by his See also:brother See also:Simon, who married See also:Beatrice of See also:Burgundy, daughter of the count of See also:Auxonne, and had as his son See also:Jean (q.v.), the historian and friend of St See also:Louis. See also:Henri (d. 1374), sire de Joinville, the See also:grand-son of Jean, became count of Vaudemont, through his See also:mother, See also:Marguerite de Vaudemont. His daughter, Marguerite de Joinville, married in 1393 See also:Ferry of See also:Lorraine (d. 1415), to whom she brought the lands of Joinville. In 1552, Joinville was made into a principality for the house of Lorraine. Mlle de See also:Montpensier, the heiress of Mlle de See also:Guise, bequeathed the principality of Joinville to See also:Philip, See also:duke of See also:Orleans (1693).

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castle, which overhung the See also:Marne, was sold in 1791 to be demolished. The See also:title of See also:prince de Joinville (q.v.) was given later to the third son of See also:King Louis Philippe. Two branches of the house of Joinville have settled in other countries: one in See also:England, descended from Geoffroi de Joinville, sire de Vaucouleurs, and brother of the historian, who served under Henry III. and See also:Edward I.; the other, descended from Geoffroi de Joinville, sire de Briquenay, and son of Jean, settled in the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples. See J. Simonnet, Essai sur l'histoire et la genealogie See also:des seigneurs de Joinville (1875) ; H. F. See also:Delaborde, Jean de Joinville et See also:les seigneurs de Joinville (1894). (M. P.

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