Dunois (Orléanais)
See also: Dunois
The Dunois is a French area of the west of the Beauce which extends from Châteaudun (sub-prefecture of the department of Eure-et-Loir) until the north of the Département of Loir-et-Cher, to the borders of the Vendômois.
This area corresponds to old the Pagus Dunensis and was included/understood before 1789 in the large-government of the Orléanais. It was then located at the West of clean Orléanais and the South-west of the Beauce.
The principal cities of Dunois are Châteaudun (chief town), Fréteval, Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse, Bonneval, Patay, Marchenoir.
Its inhabitants is the not very used Dunoisons , a contrario of the term very widespread Dunois .
Hereditary Viscount at the 10th century, the Dunois was sold to the count de Blois in 1382, and was resold with the Comté of Blois in 1391 with Louis of Orleans, which gave it to his/her natural son, Jean de Dunois. He was joined together with the crown in 1707.
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