Berry (Duchy)

Carolingian Counts Berry and Bourges

• 766 - 768 : Remistan Aquitaine (d. 768 ), Count in half the county of Bourges with 766 , son of the Duke of Aquitaine, the Great .
• 802 - 838 : Wickfred (d. 838 ), Count of Bourges
• before 855 : Humbert (d. 862 ), Count of Bourges
• 872 - 876 : Viennese Boson ( 844 - 887 ), Count Berry
• 876 - 878 : Bernard I of Gotha (d. 879 ), Count Berry
• 878-886 : Bernard II Plantwell ( 841-886 ), Count Berry
• 886 - 918 : Guillaume I the Pious ( 860 - 918 ), Earl of Berry

In 887, the King of France, Ed, took the county of Bourges from Guillaume and handed it over to his close Hugo. However, in a battle in July 893, Guillaume killed Hugo and regained his possessions.

• 887 - 893 : Hugo I (d. 893 ), Count of Bourges
• 918 - 926 : Guillaume II Young (d. 926 ), Earl of Berry
• 926 - 927 : Akfred I (d. 927 ), Earl of Berry
• 927 - 929 : Able I Manzer ( 870 - 934 ), Earl of Berry

In 929, the king of France, Raul I , wishing to weaken the power of Ebly, took the county of Berry from him.

Counts of Bourges (962–1101)

• 962 - ?: Gottfried I Papabos (b.k. 920 )
• ? - ?: Gottfried II Boseras (b.oc. 950 ), son of the previous
• 1012 - 1037 : Gottfried III the Noble ( 980 - 1037 ), son of the previous
• 1037 - 1061 : Gottfried IV Le Meshin (born 1010 ), son of the previous
• 1061 - 1070 : Etienne I (c. 1012 - 1070 ), son of the previous
• 1070 - 1092 : Edelburg ( 1067 - 1096 ), sister of the previous

husband: Gilles II , Cir de Sully (d. 1098 )

• 1092 - 1101 : Matilda de Sully , daughter of the previous
• 1092 - 1101 : Ed I Jurpen (d. 1109 ), husband of the previous

In 1101, Ed I Jurpen sold the county of Bourges to King Philip I of France for 60,000 kroons to pay the costs of his participation in the First Crusade .

• since 1101 - as part of the royal domain

In 1360, King John II the Good created the Duchy of Berry, on the territory of the historical region of Berry , which he singled out as an uplift to his third son, Jean Berry , uncle of the future King Charles VI the Mad . Jean died in 1416 , and the duchy returned to the royal domain. Further, it repeatedly stood out again in the upshot of the younger princes and princesses of France, and was also the widowed part of some queens. Some kings of France, before entering the throne, held the title of Duke of Berry.

Dukes of Berry

• 1360 - 1416 : Jean I Stingy (1340-1416), Duke of Berry from 1360, Duke of Auvergne , Count of Poitiers
• 1416 - 1417 : Jean II of Turen (1398-1417), Duke of Berry from 1416, Duke of Turen, Dauphin of France
• 1417-1422 : Charles I the Conqueror (1403-1461), Duke of Berry in 1417-1422, Dauphin of France, later King Charles VII
• 1461 - 1465 : Charles II of France (1446-1472), Duke of Berry in 1461-1465, Duke of Normandy and Hyenas , son of King Charles VII
• 1472 - 1473 : Francis I of France (1472-1473), Duke of Berry from 1472, son of King Louis XI
• 1498 - 1505 : Joan of France (1464-1505), Duchess of Berria from 1498, Duchess of Orleans, Queen of France, daughter of King Louis XI

  husband: in 1476–1498 Louis II of Orleans (1462–1515), Duke of Orleans, later King Louis XII

• 1517 - 1527 : Margarita I of Angouleme (1492-1549), Duchess of Berria in 1517-1527, Duchess of Alanson, Queen of Navarre, sister of King Francis I

  1st husband: from 1509, Charles IV of Alanson (1489-1525), Duke of Alanson, Duke of Berria (Charles III) by the right of his wife;

  2nd husband: from 1527 Henry II of Navarre (1503-1555), king of Navarre from 1517, Duke of Berry (Henry I) by the right of his wife;

• 1527 - 1531 : Louise I of Savoy (1476-1531), Duchess of Berria from 1527, Duchess of Anjou, Bourbon, Turen, Auvergne, Nemur and Angouleme, mother of King Francis I

  husband: from 1487 Karl of Angouleme (1459-1496), Count of Angouleme

• 1550 - 1559 : Margarita II of France (1523-1574), Duchess of Berria in 1550-1559, Duchess of Savoy, daughter of King Francis I

  husband: from 1559 Emmanuel Philibert (1528-1580), the duke of Savoy, the duke of Berria by the right of his wife

   

  The old building of the Berry Museum in Bourges .

• 1566 - 1574 : Henry II of France (1551-1589), Duke of Berry in 1566-1574, Duke of Anjou, Orleans and Bourbon, later King Henry III , son of King Henry II , brother of Kings Francis II and Charles IX
• 1576 : Francis II of France (1555–1584), Duke of Berry in 1576, Duke of Anjou, Turen, Alencon, Brabant, Count of Flanders, staffing of the Netherlands, son of King Henry II, brother of kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
• 1576 - 1589 : Elizabeth I of Austria (1554-1592), Duchess of Berria in 1576-1589, Queen of France, wife of King Charles IX

  husband: from 1570 Charles IX (1550-1574), king of France

• 1589 - 1601 : Louise II of Lorraine (1553-1601), Duchess of Berria from 1589, Queen of France, wife of King Henry III

  husband: from 1575 Henry III (1551-1589), king of France

Titular Dukes of Berria at the Bourbons

• 1686 - 1714 : Charles IV of France (1686-1714), Duke of Berry from 1686, Duke of Alencon, Angouleme, Count of Poitiers, grandson of King Louis XIV
• 1754 - 1774 : Louis I of France (1754–1793), Duke of Berry in 1754–1774, later King Louis XVI , grandson of King Louis XV
• 1774 - 1778 : Charles V of France (1757-1836), Duke of Berry in 1774-1778, Duke of Angouleme and Count of Artois, later King Charles X , grandson of King Louis XV, brother of Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII , uncle of King Louis XVII
• 1778 - 1820 : Charles VI Ferdinand (1778-1820), Duke of Berry from 1778, son of King Charles X
  • since 2010 : Alphonse I , descendant of Louis XIV, son of the legitimist contender Louis XX of the branch of the Spanish Bourbons

• Berry (province)

• Berry, Duchy // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.