List of counts and dukes of Vendôme
List of counts and dukes of Vendôme
Count of Vendôme, and, later, Duke of Vendôme, were French titles of nobility.
The first known holder of the title was Bouchard Ratepilate. The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon. In 1514, Vendôme was made a duchy-peerage. In 1589, the then-Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain. It was re-granted to his illegitimate son César in 1598, and held by his descendants until the extinction of the legitimate male line in 1727.
The title was revived by Orleanist claimants to the throne of France as a courtesy title.
Counts of Vendôme
Bouchardides
Bouchard Ratepilate (c. 930 – 956...967)
Bouchard I (956...967–1005), also Count of Paris and Count of Corbeil by marriage
Renaud (1005–1017), Bishop of Paris 991–1017
House of Nevers
Bodon of Nevers (1017–1023), by marriage to Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou, daughter of Fulk III of Anjou and Elisabeth de Vendôme, daughter of Bouchard I
Bouchard II (1023–1028) under the regency of Fulk III of Anjou (1023–1027)
shared between Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou and Fulk de Vendôme (1028–1032)
House of Anjou
Geoffrey I (1032–1056), also Count of Anjou (succeeded Adèle by cession and drove out Fulk)
House of Nevers
Fulk de Vendôme (1056–1066), reinstated by Henry I of France
Bouchard III (1066–1085) under the regency of Guy of Nouastre (1066–1075)
House of Preuilly
House of Montoire
John IV (1217–1230), Lord of Montoire, grandson of Bouchard IV
Peter I (1230–1249)
Bouchard V (1249–1270)
John V (1271–1315)
Bouchard VI (1315–1354)
John VI (1354–1364)
Bouchard VII (1364–1371)
Joanna (1371–1372) under the regency of her grandmother Joanna of Ponthieu (1371–1372)
Catherine (1372–1403) with John I of Bourbon-La Marche (1372–1393) with Louis I of Bourbon-Vendôme (1393–1403)
House of Bourbon
Louis I (1403–1446)
John II (1446–1477)
Francis I (1477–1495) under the regency of Louis of Joyeuse (1477–1484)
Charles IV (1495–1514), Count of Vendôme, title raised to Duke of Vendôme and entered the peerage 1514.
English Counts of Vendôme
Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1424–1430), created Count of Vendôme by John, Duke of Bedford as regent for Henry VI of England as King of France
Dukes of Vendôme
House of Bourbon
Charles IV (1514–1537)
Antoine I (1537–1562), son of, King of Navarre from 1555
Henry I (1562–1607), son of, King of France from 1589, the Duchy became part of the royal domain after the Edict of 1607.
Personal title
César (1598–1665), illegitimate son of Henry IV of France by Gabrielle d'Estrées, born in 1594 and legitimized in 1596 (founder of the house of Bourbon-Vendôme)
Louis (1612–1669), son of
Louis Joseph I (1669–1712), son of
Philip (1712–1727), brother of, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France
The Vendôme name was annexed into the royal domain by Louis XIV of France in 1712, on the pretext that Philip's membership in the Order of Malta as grand prior of France prevented him from holding them, but he retained the title.
Courtesy title
The title was revived by Orleanist claimants to the throne of France as a courtesy title. However it is invalid in French law.
Emmanuel (I) (1872–1931)
John (IX) (born 1965). He became Count of Paris in 2019 after the death of his father Henri, Count of Paris.