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VALENTINOIS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 852 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VALENTINOIS , the name of a countship in France, the
chief
  town of which was Valence (Dr8me). From the 12th to the 15th century Valentinois belonged to a family of Poitiers, which must not be confused with that of the
counts
  of Poitiers. To the detriment of his kinsmen, the lords of St Vallier,
Count
  Louis II. (d. 1419) bequeathed his counties of Valentinois and Diois to the Dauphin Charles, afterwards King Charles VII.; and in 1498 Louis 'XII. erected the countship of Valentinois into a duchy, and gave it to Caesar Borgia, son of
Pope
  Alexander VI. A few years later Borgia was deprived of the duchy, which, in 1548, was given by
Henry
  II. to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, a descendant of the
counts
  of Valentinois. Having again reverted to the Crown, the duchy was given by Louis XIII. to Honore Grimaldi, prince of Monaco, whose descendants retained it until the French Revolution. The new duchy of Valentinois, however, did not consist of the lands attached tothe former one, but was made up of several scattered lordships in Dauphine. The title of duke of Valentinois is still borne by the prince of Monaco.
See J. Chevalier, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des comas de Valentinois et de Diois (Paris, 18971906).


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