Duc de Poix in the
French peerage was created by
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
in 1663, for
Charles de Créquy (1623-1687), who served as ambassador to Spain, England, Rome and Bavaria.
The title was taken from de Créquy's home town of
Poix-de-Picardie
Poix-de-Picardie (, literally ''Poix of Picardy''; pcd, Poé-d’Picardie) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is situated at the junction of the N1 and N29 roads, some southwest of ...
but it became extinct when he died in 1687 without a male heir. It now forms one of the secondary titles of the current
ducs de Mouchy.
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