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RETZ, SEIGNEURS AND DUKES OF

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RETZ, SEIGNEURS AND See also:DUKES OF . The See also:district of Retz or See also:Rais, in S. See also:Brittany, belonged in See also:early times to a See also:house which See also:bore its name, and of which the eldest See also:branch became See also:extinct in the 13th See also:century in the See also:Chabot See also:family. From the Chabot family the lordship passed to the Lavals. Gilles de See also:Laval, sire de Retz (1404-1440), the comrade-in-arms of See also:Joan of Arc and See also:marshal of See also:France, gave himself over to the most revolting debauchery, and was strangled and burned at See also:Nantes. The See also:barony of Retz passed successively to the families of Tournemine, Annebaut and Gondi. In 1581 it was erected into a duchy in the See also:peerage of France (duchy-pairie) for See also:Albert de Gondi, marshal of France and See also:general of the galleys. See also:Pierre de Gondi, See also:brother of the first duc de Retz, became See also:bishop of See also:Paris in 1570 and See also:cardinal in 1587. He was succeeded by his nephews, See also:Henri (d. 1622) and See also:Jean See also:Francois de Gondi (d. 1654), for whom the episcopal see of Paris was erected into an See also:arch-bishopric in 1622, and by his See also:great-See also:nephew, Jean Francois See also:Paul de Gondi, the famous cardinal de Retz. With the See also:death of the last male of the house of Gondi in 1676 the duchy-pairie became extinct; the lordship passed to the house of See also:Neuville-Villeroy.

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