The
Sire de Bourbon or
Seigneur de Bourbon, meaning
Lord of Bourbon, was the
titleA title is a prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name...
by which the
rulersManorialism or Seigneurialism or Feudal Society was the organizing principle of rural economy and society widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe...
of "
la BourbonnaisBourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.- History :...
" were known, from 913 to 1327, and from which the
cognomenThe cognomen was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary...
of the illustrious royal
HouseThe House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples & Sicily, and Parma...
of the same name derives.
Louis ILouis I of Bourbon, le Boiteux, the Lame was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon.-Life:...
, comté de
ClermontClermont is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.-Demography:-Sights:* Church St Samson containing numerous Painting from the seventeenth century* Dungeon of Clermont* fortified town hall-Twin towns:It is twinned with:...
, the ultimate holder, was created the first "
ducDuke of Bourbon is a title in the peerage of France. It was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of Bourbon...
de Bourbon" and made "comté de la Marche" by his cousin, King
Charles IVCharles IV , was the King of France and of Navarre and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death: he was the last French king of the senior Capetian lineage.-Biography:He was the third son of Philip IV...
of France, in exchange for Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, thus absorbing the title.
This title dates to at least the early Tenth-Century and Aymar de Bourbon.
The
Sire de Bourbon or
Seigneur de Bourbon, meaning
Lord of Bourbon, was the
titleA title is a prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name...
by which the
rulersManorialism or Seigneurialism or Feudal Society was the organizing principle of rural economy and society widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe...
of "
la BourbonnaisBourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.- History :...
" were known, from 913 to 1327, and from which the
cognomenThe cognomen was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary...
of the illustrious royal
HouseThe House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples & Sicily, and Parma...
of the same name derives.
Louis ILouis I of Bourbon, le Boiteux, the Lame was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon.-Life:...
, comté de
ClermontClermont is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.-Demography:-Sights:* Church St Samson containing numerous Painting from the seventeenth century* Dungeon of Clermont* fortified town hall-Twin towns:It is twinned with:...
, the ultimate holder, was created the first "
ducDuke of Bourbon is a title in the peerage of France. It was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of Bourbon...
de Bourbon" and made "comté de la Marche" by his cousin, King
Charles IVCharles IV , was the King of France and of Navarre and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death: he was the last French king of the senior Capetian lineage.-Biography:He was the third son of Philip IV...
of France, in exchange for Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, thus absorbing the title.
This title dates to at least the early Tenth-Century and Aymar de Bourbon. Aymar lived under the reign of the
CarolingianThe Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...
overlord
Charles IIICharles III , called the Simple or the Straightforward , was the undisputed King of France from 898 until 922 and the King of Lotharingia from 911 until 919/23...
of France who gave to him, in the year 913, several strongholds on the river
AllierThe Allier is a river in central France, left tributary to the river Loire. Its source is in the Massif Central, in the Lozère département, east of Mende. It flows generally north...
, such as the
castleA castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress, in that it describes a residence of a monarch or...
in the medieval town of
Bourbon-l'ArchambaultBourbon-l'Archambault is a spa town and a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne in central France.In 1681, Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Tours, the third daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan died there at the age of seven.Over three...
. Of Aymar's ten successors all but three took the name "d'Archambault". His line ended in 1200 with the death of Archambault VII, whose granddaughter, Mathilde, then became the first
dame de Bourbon (
dame being the feminine form of
seigneur/sire), as she was Archambault's eldest living relative (the title being heritable by female family members). Mathilde's husband, Guy II de Dampierre, added
MontluçonMontluçon is a commune in central France. It is the largest commune in the Allier department, although the department's préfecture is located in the smaller town of Moulins. Its inhabitants are known as Montluçonnais...
to the possessions of the
Lords of Bourbon, which had expanded to the river
CherThe Cher is a river in central France, left tributary to the river Loire. Its source is in the Creuse département, north-east of Crocq. It joins the river Loire in Villandry, west of Tours....
during the Eleventh and Twelfth-Centuries. Their son, Archambaud VIII "le Grand", seigneur de Bourbon from the year 1216 to the year 1242, rose to
connétableThe Constable of France , as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five Great Officers of the Crown of France and Commander in Chief of the army...
de ("the constable of ...") France, the
commander-in-chiefA commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the...
of the French
militaryThe military history of France encompasses a large panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years across areas including modern France, greater Europe, and European territorial possessions overseas....
.
Following the death of
Archambaud IXArchambaud IX of Bourbon called "Le Jeune" was a ruler of Bourbonnais in the modern region of Auvergne, France....
in 1249 on
crusadeThe Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France from 1248 to 1254. Approximately 50,000 gold bezants was paid in ransom for King Louis who, along with thousands of his troops, were captured and defeated by the Egyptian army led by the Ayyubid Sultan Turanshah supported by the Bahariyya...
, the title then passed through his daughters; first,
Mathilde IIMaud of Dampierre or Mathilda II of Bourbon was a daughter of Archambaud IX of Bourbon and Yolande de Châtillon, countess of Nevers. As heiress to the counties of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre, she was married off to Odo, son and heir of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy...
(also known as "Mahaut"), comtesse de
NeversNevers is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.It is the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. Nevers is located SSE of Paris.-History:...
, d'
AuxerreAuxerre is a commune in the Bourgogne region in north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. It is the capital of the Yonne department.It is a commercial and industrial centre, with industries including food production, woodworking and batteries...
et de
TonnerreTonnerre is a town and commune of the Yonne département in France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was .
On 1 January 2004, the estimate was .-References:* -External links:*...
and second, Agnès de Bourbon, whose husband, Jean de Bourgogne, was the second son of the duc de Bourgogne,
Hugh IVHugh IV of Burgundy was duke of Burgundy between 1218 and 1271. Hugh was the only son of duke Eudes III and Alice of Vergy...
, and therefore a male-line descendant of Hugh Capet. Jean, himself seigneur de
CharolaisCharolais is an area of France, named after the town of Charolles, and located in today's Saône-et-Loire département, in Burgundy.-History:...
became seigneur de Bourbon as well upon the death of Mathilde in 1262. He died five years later at the age of thirty-six and Agnès remained a widow. Jean's daughter by Agnès, Béatrice, after the death of her mother in 1287, became his heir both in Charolais and Bourbonnais. Her spouse,
RobertRobert of France was made Count of Clermont in 1268. He was son of King Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence...
of France was the sixth son of saint
Louis IXLouis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was a member of the House of Capet, the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile...
Capet, king of the Franks and the founder of the
lineFor a full history of the Capetian family, see Capetian dynasty.The House of Capet, or The Direct Capetian Dynasty, , also called The House of France , or simply the Capets, which ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328, was the most senior line of the Capetian dynasty - itself a derivative...
which was to reach the throne of France in the person of its 10th-degree descendant, King
Henry IV of FranceHenry IV was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France. His parents were Queen Jeanne III and King Antoine of Navarre.As a Huguenot, Henry was involved in the Wars of Religion before...
. The son of Robert and Beatrice, Louis, became the first duc de Bourbon, superseding the previous rank of
seigneur.