The title Duke of Ayen (''duc d'Ayen'') was created by King Louis XV on 12 March 1737 raising the former county of Ayen to a Dukedom It was used as a

courtesy title A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but rather is used through custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility, the titles used by children of members of the nobility (cf. substantive title). In some co ...

by the eldest son of the Duke of Noailles The Duke of Ayen are cousins of the Dukes of Mouchy a cadet branch of the House of Noailles

List of Dukes of Ayen

#1737–1766 Louis de Noailles (1713–1793) 1st Duke of Ayen (1737) then 4th Duke of Noailles (1766) Marshal of France. #1766–1823 Jean de Noailles (1739–1824), 2nd Duke of Ayen (1766) 5th Duke of Noailles (1793), Peer of France (1814) #1823–1826

Paul de Noailles Paul de Noailles, 6th Duke of Noailles (4 January 1802 – 29 May 1885) was a French nobleman and historian. He was the grandnephew of the heirless Jean-Paul-François de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles, and succeeded him as Duke of Noailles on ...

(1802–1885), 3rd Duke of Ayen (1823) and 6th Duke of Noailles (1824) #1826–1885 (1826–1895), 4th Duke of Ayen (1826) then 7th Duke of Noailles (1885) #1885–1895

Adrien de Noailles Adrien Maurice Victurnien Mathieu de Noailles, 8th Duke of Noailles (22 September 1869 – 23 October 1953), son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles, acceded to the title of Duke of Noailles on his father's death in 1895. He was succeeded by h ...

(1869–1953), 5th Duke of Ayen (1885) then 8th Duke of Noailles (1895) #1895–1945

Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, 6th Duke of Ayen (Paris, 18 September 1893 – Bergen-Belsen, 14 April 1945) was the son of Adrien de Noailles, 8th Duke of Noailles and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. Biography He was th ...

(1893-1945), 6th Duke of Ayen (1895) #1945–1953 Hélie de Noailles (1905-2009), called the Marquis de Noailles, 7th Duke of Ayen (1945) then 9th Duke of Noailles (1953) #2009–present Emmanuel Paul Louis Marie de Noailles (born in 1983), 9th Duke of Ayen.

Arms

*''Gueules à la bande d'or''Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, 'Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France, 1827, p. 75-77.

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*{{EB1911, wstitle=Noailles , volume=19 , pages=722–723 Dukes of Ayen Dukes of France Peers of France Courtesy dukes