List sovereigns of Mayenne

This is a list of the lords of Mayenne.

First House of Mayenne (discussed historicity)

For the Abbé Angot, Mayenne has this advantage, from the point of view of historical clearness, that a written text comes to about it corroborate the general data of the history. The lawsuit is thus judged by him under this report/ratio: there is lord of Mayenne before Geoffroy, wire of Hamon.

The Angot abbot brings an indirect evidence of this established fact, by showing how the legend was formed which would claim to give to Mayenne several generations of lords former to hereditary feudality.

See also: First house of Mayenne

The list of the lords of the first house of Mayenne is thus of a discussed historicity:

  • Aubert of Maine, wire of Gauzlin III of Maine, count of Maine would be lord of Mayenne of the chief of his wife Mélissende de Mayenne, girl of the governor of Cotentin;
  • Geoffroy Ier de Mayenne (915 - 980), lord of Mayenne;
  • Juhel Ier de Mayenne (940 -), lord of Mayenne, and would have founded the Château of Mayenne.

Second House of Mayenne

At the beginning of the 11th century, Foulques Nerra, Count d' Anjou and suzerain of the place, inféodait the already important baronnie of Mayenne with Hamon de Mayenne, stem of the family of Juhel, first lords of Mayenne.

After having shown peremptorily that hereditary feudality does not exist in Mayenne before the 11th century, Mr. Bertrand de Broussillon comes to Mayenne: “ For Mayenne, says it, which passes to have been a stronghold as of the 9th century, and to which Guyard of the Pit gives for lords at that time: Méen, Ruellon, Aubert, Geoffroy and Juhel, charter 245 of the Cartulaire of Saint-Vincent comes to specify the facts so as to not leave any doubt about the name of its first lord, and on the date of its infeodation. This act, whose drafting places between 1067 and 1070, was approved by Geoffroy, wire of Hamon, which Geoffroy had received Foulques Nerra, count of Anjou, is between 1014 and 1040, the property of the Château of Mayenne. This infeodation could not obviously be placed before the year millet, without allotting to Geoffroy a longevity all the more exaggerated since he still lived after 1082. ”

House of Avaugour

House of Blois

In 1481, the death of Charles V of Anjou made it possible Louis XI of France to attach the Maine to the royal field, while the town of Mayenne échéait with the duke Rene II of Lorraine.

House of Lorraine

1481 - 1508 : Rene II of Lorraine (1451 - 1508), baron de Mayenne, duke of Lorraine (1473 - 1508), count de Vaudémont
the elder branch of Lorraine, in the person of Antoine of Lorraine, preserves the duchy of Lorraine while the branch junior inherits the baronnie by Mayenne which will become marquisat and acquires the duchy of Own way.

1508 - 1550 : Claude I {{er}} of Own way (1496 - 1550), wire puîné of the precedent, 1st duke of Own way (1528-1550), count d' Aumale, baron then marquis, in 1544, of Mayenne and Elbeuf

the county of Aumale becomes the prerogative of Charles, 3rd wire (6th child) of Claude Ier, and the Tweed marquisat is transmitted to Rene, 8th wire (12th child) of Claude Ier, and whose son Henri will become Tweed duke.

1550 - 1563 : François I {{er}} of Own way (1520 - 1563), 1st wire of the precedent, 2nd duke of Own way, marquis de Mayenne

the duchy of Own way is transmitted to the oldest son of François Ier, Henri I {{er}} of Own way and the count d' Aumale takes again the marquisat of Mayenne.

1563 - 1573 : Claude II of Aumale (1526 - 1573), brother of the precedent, 3rd wire of Claude Ier, marquis de Mayenne, count then duke, in 1547, of Aumale

In 1573, the marquisat of Mayenne becomes duchy to the profit of Charles II of Mayenne, whose history retained besides the name as a Duc of Mayenne or simply Mayenne.

1573 - 1611 : Charles II of Mayenne (1554 - 1611), 2nd wire of François Ier, marquis then duke of Mayenne and Count of Maine, Even of France, Admiral de France

1611 - 1621 : Henri de Mayenne (1578 - 1621), wire of the precedent, duke of Mayenne and duke (1599) of Pivot and marquis of Villars and count of Maine and count of Tightens and count of Sommerive, Pair of France

Henri, 2nd duke of Mayenne, dies in 1621 without leaving descendants. The duchy passes then, by his/her sister Catherine de Mayenne (1585 † 1618), with another big family, the Gonzague, dukes of Mantoue and Nevers.

House of Gonzague

1621 - 1631 : Charles III (1609 † 1631), duke of Mayenne and Rethel by courtesy (Charles IV, 1595-1637), wire of Charles I {{er}} of Mantoue and Catherine de Mayenne
married in 1627 with Marie de Mantoue (1609 † 1660)

1631 - 1632 : Ferdinand (1610 † 1632), duke of Mayenne, brother of the precedent

1632 - 1654 : Charles IV (1629 † 1665), duke of Mayenne, Nevers (Charles IV, 1637-1659) and of Rethel (Charles V, 1637-1659), 2nd prince d' Arches (Charles II, 1637-1665), duke of Mantoue and Montferrat (Charles II, 1637-1665) wire of Charles III and Marie de Gonzague

married in 1649 with Isabelle de Habsbourg (1629 † 1685)

In 1654, Charles IV sells the duchy of Mayenne with Mazarin .

Mazarin house

1654 - 1661 : Jules Mazarin (1602 † 1661), cardinal, Prime Minister of Louis XIV

1661 - 1699 : Hortense Mancini , duchess of Rethel and Mayenne, niece of the precedent, girl of Michel Mancini and Girolama Mazarini (sister of Mazarin)

married (in 1661 and separate in 1666) with Armand-Charles of the Door (1632 † 1713), duke of Meilleraye.

1699 - 1731 : Paul-Jules of the Door (1666 † 1731), duke of Rethel, Mayenne and Meilleraye, wire of the precedents

married in first weddings (1685) with Charlotte Félicité on Durfort († 1730)
married in second weddings (1731) with Francoise de Mailly (1688 † 1742)

1731 - 1738 : Paul of the Door (1701 † 1738), duke of Rethel, Mayenne and Meilleraye, wire of the precedent and Charlotte Félicité on married Durfort

(1716) with Louise Francoise de Rohan (1695 † 1755)

Charles Antoinette of the Door (1719 † 1735), girl of the précédent
mariée in 1733 with Emmanuel-Happiness of Durfort, duke of Lasted (1715 † 1789)

1738 - 1781 : Louise Jeanne de Durfort (1735 † 1781), duchess of Rethel, Mayenne and Meilleraye, girl of Emmanuel Congratulated on Durfort and Charles Antoinette of the Door

married in 1747 with Louis d' Aumont (1732 † 1799), duke of Aumont

1781 - 1789 : Louise d' Aumont (1759 † 1826), duchess of Rethel, Mayenne and Meilleraye, girl of the precedents

married in 1771 (and divorced in 1798) with Honore IV Grimaldi, prince de Monaco (1758 † 1819)

Grimaldi house

Current prince de Monaco, Albert II, carries among his many titles that of duke of Mayenne.

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