Europe · High and late Middle Ages
House of Bourbon
drawn on the map 1333–1594
Descended from Robert, Count of Clermont, youngest son of Louis IX, who married the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon, raised to the Duchy of Bourbonnais (1327), capital Moulins. The Bourbon dukes became among the greatest magnates of France.
- Shown on the map
- 1333–1594
- Peak area
- 74k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Descended from Robert, Count of Clermont, youngest son of Louis IX, who married the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon, raised to the Duchy of Bourbonnais (1327), capital Moulins. The Bourbon dukes became among the greatest magnates of France. The crisis came with Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France and the realm's greatest landholder: aggrieved by Francis I's attempt (with the queen mother Louise of Savoy) to seize his inheritance, the Constable de Bourbon committed treason in 1523, defecting to Emperor Charles V; he commanded imperial armies against France and died at the Sack of Rome (1527), his duchy confiscated. The senior Bourbon claim passed to the cadet line of Bourbon-Vendôme, whose head married Jeanne d'Albret of Navarre; their son Henry of Navarre became Henry IV of France (1589), founding the royal Bourbon dynasty.
Common questions
- What was the House of Bourbon?
- Descended from Robert, Count of Clermont, youngest son of Louis IX, who married the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon, raised to the Duchy of Bourbonnais (1327), capital Moulins. The Bourbon dukes became among the greatest magnates of France.
- When is the House of Bourbon shown on the map?
- The border data draws the House of Bourbon 1333–1594. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the House of Bourbon?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the House of Bourbon covered about 74,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — House of Bourbon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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