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This countship, the extent of which seems to have been practically identical with that of the ecclesiastical diocese of Angers, occupied the greater part of what is now the départment of Maine-et-Loire, further embracing, to the north, Craon, Candé, Bazouges ( Château-Gontier ), Le Lude, and to the east, Château-la-Vallière and Bourgueil, while to the south, on the other hand, it included neither the present town of Montreuil-Bellay, nor Vihiers, Cholet, Beaupréau, nor the whole district lying to the west of the Ironne and Thouet, on the left bank of the Loire, which formed the territory of the Mauges.
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On 25 August 1271, at the death of Alphonse de Poitiers, Avignon and the surrounding countship Comtat-Venaissin ( which was governed by rectors since 1274 ) were united with the French crown.
He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.
All the while that Fulk the Young and Geoffrey the Handsome were carrying on the work of extending the countship of Anjou, they did not neglect to strengthen their authority at home, to which the unruliness of the barons was a menace.
After Henry II's death in 1189 the countship, together with the rest of his dominions, passed to his son Richard I of England, but on the death of the latter in 1199, Arthur of Brittany ( born in 1187 ) laid claim to the inheritance, which ought, according to him, to have fallen to his father Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II, in accordance with the custom by which " the son of the eldest brother should succeed to his father's patrimony.
Charles of Valois at once entered into possession of the countship of Anjou, to which Philip IV, the Fair, in September 1297, attached a peerage of France.
During the Middle Ages it was the chief town of Beauce, and gave its name to a countship which was held by the counts of Blois and Champagne and afterwards by the house of Châtillon, a member of which in 1286 sold it to the crown.
Both the Latin form ( Comes ) palatinus and the French ( comte ) palatin have been used as part of the full title of Dukes of Burgundy ( a branch of the French royal dynasty ) to render their rare German title Freigraf, which was the style of a ( later lost ) bordering principality, the allodial countship of Burgundy ( Freigrafschaft Burgund in German ) which came to be known as Franche-Comté.
In the ninth century it became a countship, which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France from the twelfth century.
Only a temporary truce allowed his uncle to leave Normandy in exile but with an edict of excommunication placed on all of Normandy, which was only lifted when Archbishop Robert was allowed to return and his countship was restored.
He left no sons, and all his titles became extinct except the Baronies of Darcy ( de Knayth ) and Conyers, which were Baronies by Writ, and the Portuguese countship of Mértola.
Robert had also acquired the countship of Ponthieu jure uxoris and the honor of Tickhill ; all of which combined made him the wealthiest magnate in both England and Normandy.
Following the confiscation of the possessions of Jacques d ' Armagnac, duke of Nemours, to which the countship of Castres had passed, it was bestowed in 1476 by King Louis XI on Boffille de Juge ( Boffillo del Giudice ), an Italian nobleman and adventurer serving as a diplomat for Louis XI, but the appointment led to so much disagreement ( family feud between Boffille de Juge, his only daughter, and his brother-in-law ) that the countship was united to the crown by King Francis I in 1519.
During the Middle Ages it was the seat of a seigniory, which was raised to the rank of countship in 1497.
The discovery that Joinville was a countship of the Orleans family, and a real or fancied resemblance of Louis Philippe to Chiappini, convinced her that the duke of Orleans was the person for whose sake she had been cheated of her birthright, a conviction strengthened by the striking resemblance which many people discovered in her to the princesses of the Orleans family.
It was separated from the countship ( part of Habsburg's Burgundian inheritance ) in 1659 due to the Peace of the Pyrenees, which ended the French-Spanish conflict in the Thirty Years War, and other parts of the region were added in successive treaties in 1668 and 1678.
Gerhard Tersteegen ( November 25, 1697 – April 3, 1769 ), was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau ( it fell to Prussia in 1702 ), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country.
" After a short time holding the countship, his cousin Elias convinced Hugh to sell him the county, which he did.
This had long given its name to the countship of Bitsch, which was originally in the possession of the dukes of Lorraine.
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But Fulk le Réchin ( the Cross-looking ), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the châtellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur ( 25 February 1067 ) and Angers ( 4 April ), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sablé.
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Some districts, named the Freie Ämter ( free bailiwicks ) – Mellingen, Muri, Villmergen, and Bremgarten ), with the countship of Baden – were governed as " subject lands " by all or some of the Confederates.
His son Romano ( 1268 – 1327 ), called Romanello, was Royal Vicar of Rome in 1326, and inherited the countship of Soana through his marriage with Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola.
This was afterward preserved as an administrative district under the Franks with the name first of pagus, then of comitatus, or countship of Anjou.
Fulk V the Young ( 14 April 1109 – 1129 ) succeeded to the countship of Maine on the death of Elias ( 11 July 1110 ); but this increase of Angevin territory came into such direct collision with the interests of Henry I of England, who was also duke of Normandy, that a struggle between the two powers became inevitable.
In 1139 Geoffrey took Mirebeau, and in 1142 Champtoceaux, but in 1145 a new revolt broke out, this time under the leadership of Elias, the count's own brother, who, again with the assistance of Robert of Sable, laid claim to the countship of Maine.
Though of ancient origin, Blois is first distinctly mentioned by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century, and the city gained some notability in the 9th century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship with « Blesum castrum » (« Le château de Blois »).
They held sessions, promulgated decrees, interfered in the government of the papal countship of Venaissin, treated with the Hussites, and, as representatives of the universal Church, presumed to impose laws upon the sovereign pontiff himself.
From the start the count was not in charge of a roving warband, but settled in a locality, known as a countship ; his main rival for power was the bishop, whose diocese was often coterminous with the countship.
The title of Count was also often conferred by the monarch as an honorific title for special services rendered, without an attaching feudal estate ( countship, county ): it was merely a title, with or without a domain name attached to it.
The countship was subsequently held by Louis de Bourbon, the younger son of John and Marie, and by his descendants up to Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, the famous constable, who became duke of Bourbon by his marriage with his cousin, Suzanne de Bourbon, in 1505.
Dating to 1681, the countship was associated with members of the Dano-Norwegian noble family, Wedel-Jarlsberg.
The House of Luxembourg had disputed the countship of Guise, and with the approval of John, Duke of Bedford, English Regent of France, seized the county in 1425.
Bremgarten, together with the rest of the Freie Ämter ( Mellingen, Muri, Villmergen, and the countship of Baden ), were governed as " subject lands " by all or some of the Confederates.
Ulfeldt's treason was rewarded by Charles X of Sweden with the countship of Sölvesborg in Blekinge ; but the discontented renegade began intriguing against his new master, and in May 1659 he was condemned to death.
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The creation involved that Count Griffenfeld, in addition to owning 14 percent of the countship ’ s land, received large tax revenues and also the right to appoint all civil and ecclesiastical officials, including officers and judges, who would serve within the countship.
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A last effort on the part of John to possess himself of it, in 1214, led to the taking of Angers ( 17 June ), but broke down lamentably at the battle of La Roche-aux-Moines ( 2 July ), and the countship was attached to the crown of France.
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Jarlsberg was a former countship that forms a part of today ’ s Vestfold county in Norway.
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In 1235 the stage is set for the next century's Breton War of Succession when the Duke of Brittany Pierre Mauclerc disposed of the heir of the Penthièvre Dynasty in order to give the countship of Penthièvre to his second child, his daughter Yolande of Brittany.
Although well treated by his uncle, it is thought that Geoffrey Martel preferred his younger nephew, Fulk, but nonetheless left the countship to Geoffrey.
A secular Count of Mâcon is not recorded until after 850 ; from 926 the countship became hereditary.
The countship lineage De la Gardie of Läckö is extant, although the countships in Sweden no longer serve administrative regions.
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It was bounded on the north by the countship of Maine, on the east by that of Touraine, on the south by that of Poitiers and by the Mauges, on the west by the countship of Nantes.
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