Valentinois

The Valentinois (Valentinés) is one of the old countries of France.

Valentinois draws its name from its chief town Valence today prefecture of the department of the Drome. The occitan was there the vernacular language until there is little.

County of Valentinois

In 950-960, the Comté of Die was a time attached to that of Valentinois

Valentinois depended on the province of the Dauphiné.

Valentinois was exchanged in 1446 by the duke Amédée VIII of Savoy the Pacific against the Faucigny with the profit of the king Charles VII of France.

Duchy of Valentinois

Valentinois was set up in Duchy-peerage in 1498 for César Borgia by the king Louis XII of France.

The duchy of Valentinois was given in 1548 to Diane of Poitiers by the king Henri II of France.

Valentinois was given in 1642 to the prince of Monaco Honore II by the king Louis XIII of France.

The princes of Monaco regularly carried from there the title until in 1949, date of the death of the prince Louis II of Monaco. Being a question of a title of French right it cannot be transmitted by the women and there is no more today of authority in France having the capacity to carry out of it the carryforward in the event of extinction of the males.

Used by the family reigning of Monaco after 1949, for the princess Charlotte of Monaco, illegitimate girl of the prince Louis II, and her husband Pierre de Polignac, the title of duke of (or of) Valentinois, without being irregular, is a title of right Monegasque who is not the continuation of the old French title.

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