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12 unusual facts about Duke of Bourbon


Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz

On 25 November 1950, Alfonso received the title Duc de Bourbon (Duke of Bourbon) from his father.

Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

Peter of Bourbon, (1438–1503, Château de Moulins), Duke of Bourbon

He was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.

Charles de Bourbon (1401 – 4 December 1456, Château de Moulins) was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.

Counts and Dukes of Châteauroux

Fearing disunity in the Bourbon line, it became one of the estates confiscated by Constable de Bourbon, and was given by Francis I and Louise of Savoy to Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, and his wife, Renée of Bourbon, sister of the Constable.

Duke of Bourbon

Although the senior line came to an end in 1527, the cadet branch of La Marche-Vendome would later succeed to the French throne as the Royal House of Bourbon, which would later spread out to other kingdoms and duchies in Europe.

He was succeeded by his son Henry (IV/III) of Bourbon, king of France and Navarre.

Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours

In 1489, he traded the viscounties of Carlat and Murat to Peter II, Duke of Bourbon for the county of l'Isle-Jourdain.

Johannes Ockeghem

Between 1446 and 1448 Ockeghem served, along with singer and composer Jean Cousin, at the court of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon in Moulins, now in central France.

Joseph-Louis Lambot

He studied in Paris, where his uncle Baron Lambot was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Bourbon.

Louis I, Count of Montpensier

Louis de Bourbon (1405 – May 1486) was the third son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie de Berry, Duchess d'Auvergne.

Stand of the Swiss Guard

The Habsburg army, composed of Imperial and Spanish troops, was placed under the command of the Constable of France, the Duc de Bourbon, fallen from grace in France and now serving the enemy.


Jacques de la Palice

La Palice was sent again to the Pyrenees, and then to the successful attempt to rescue Marseille from Duke of Bourbon's siege.

Jeanne d'Ussel

Anne of Forez (1358 - † 1417 at Cleppé), born Lady Anne d'Auvergne Clermont and d’Ussel, countess of Forez, wife to Louis II de Bourbon (v. 1336 - † 1410), Duke of Bourbon, gave birth to James or Jean I de Bourbon (1381 - † 1434), Duke of Auvergne.

Order of Our Lady of the Thistle

The Order of Our Lady of the Thistle was founded in January 1370 in Moulins, by Louis II "the Good", Duke of Bourbon « in the honour of God and the Immaculated Virgin», at the occasion of his mariage with Anne of Auvergne, Heiress Countess of Forez, daughter of Beraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne and Jeanne of Forez; niece of John, Count of Forez.