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VALENTINOIS , the name of a countship in See also:France, the See also:chief See also:town of which was See also:Valence (Dr8me). From the 12th to the 15th See also:century Valentinois belonged to a See also:family of See also:Poitiers, which must not be confused with that of the See also:counts of Poitiers. To the detriment of his kinsmen, the lords of St Vallier, See also:Count See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis II. (d. 1419) bequeathed his counties of Valentinois and Diois to the Dauphin See also:Charles, afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Charles VII.; and in 1498 Louis 'XII. erected the countship of Valentinois into a duchy, and gave it to See also:Caesar See also:Borgia, son of See also:Pope See also:Alexander VI. A few years later Borgia was deprived of the duchy, which, in 1548, was given by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. to his See also:mistress, Diane de Poitiers, a descendant of the counts of Valentinois. Having again reverted to the See also:Crown, the duchy was given by Louis XIII. to Honore See also:Grimaldi, See also:prince of See also:Monaco, whose descendants retained it until the See also:French Revolution. The new duchy of Valentinois, however, did not consist of the lands attached tothe former one, but was made up of several scattered lordships in See also:Dauphine. The See also:title of See also:duke of Valentinois is still See also:borne by the prince of Monaco.
See J. See also:Chevalier, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire See also:des comas de Valentinois et de Diois (See also:Paris, 1897—1906).
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