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The House of Chalon-Arlay was a French noble house, a cadet branch of the House of Ivrea. The founder of the house is John I of Chalon-Arlay, fifth son of John, Count of Chalon. When John III lord of Arlay married to Mary de Baux, princess of Orange, the House acquired the principality of Orange.
File:Blason gueules-bande or.svg, Heraldic shield of the house of Chalon.
File:Blason famille fr Chalon Arlay.svg, Heraldic shield of the house of Chalon, cadet branch of the lords of Arlay. They eventually succeeded to the undifferenced arms as well as to the principality of Orange.
Image:Blason famille fr Chalon Orange.svg, Heraldic shield of the house of Chalon of Orange. The 1st and 4th quarters show the arms of Chalon-Arlay (''Gules a bend Or''), the 2nd and 3rd the princes of Orange (the bugle). The blue and gold cross is the arms of Jeanne of Geneva, who married one of the Chalon princes.
image:Blason Louis de Châlon (1448-1476).svg, Arms of Louis de Châlon (1448-1476)
File:Blason FR Philibert de Chalon.svg, Arms of Philbert de Châlon, Prince of Orange
image:Orange-chalon-bretagne.svg, Arms of Rene of Orange-Nassau-Breda (1530-1544) : overall in the center as an escutcheon is the quartered arms of Nassau and Vianden/Breda.
The House of Chalon-Arlay was a French noble house, a cadet branch of the House of Ivrea. The founder of the house is John I of Chalon-Arlay, fifth son of John, Count of Chalon. When John III lord of Arlay married to Mary de Baux, princess of Orange, the House acquired the principality of Orange.
Notable members
* John I of Chalon-Arlay lord of Arlay. *Hugh I of Chalon-Arlay
Hugh I of Chalon-Arlay (1288–1322) was lord of Arlay and of Vitteaux, and belonged to the house of Chalon-Arlay. He was the son of lord John I of Chalon-Arlay and his first wife Marguerite of Burgundy (daughter of duke Hugh IV of Burgundy), an ...
lord of Arlay.
* John II of Chalon-Arlay
John II, lord of Chalon-Arlay (1312 – 25 February 1362) was a member of the House of Chalon-Arlay. He succeeded his father Hugh I lord of Arlay to this title, and was himself succeeded by his son, Hugh II lord of Arlay.
Life
His mother Bé ...
lord of Arlay.
* Hugh II of Chalon-Arlay
Hugh II of Chalon-Arlay (1334–1388) was the son and successor as lord of Arlay to John II. His mother was Marguerite of Mello ( House of Mello, daughter of the lord of Château-Chinon and of Sainte-Hermine Dreux IV of Mello, and of Eleanor of ...
lord of Arlay and his brother Louis I of Chalon-Arlay
Louis I of Chalon-Arlay (1337–1366) was the second son of John II lord of Arlay and Margaret of Male.
When his father died in 1362, his elder brother Hugh II lord of Arlay inherited the Lordship of Arlay and Louis became Lord of Arguel and ...
lord of Arguel & Cuiseaux
* John III of Chalon-Arlay lord of Arlay, married to Mary of Baux princess of Orange. Thus the principality of Orange passed from the House de Baux to the House of Chalon-Arlay. Mary's mother was Jeanne, daughter of Amadeus III count of Geneva.
* Louis II of Chalon-Arlay prince of Orange. After the last count of Geneva from the House of his mother Mary, Louis II claimed the county but failed to acquire it.
* William VII of Chalon-Arlay prince of Orange.
* John IV of Chalon-Arlay prince of Orange.
* Philibert of Chalon prince of Orange and his sister Claudia of Chalon Claudia of Chalon-Orange (1498 – May 31, 1521, Diest) was Princess of Orange. In 1515, she married Henry III of Nassau-Breda, thus uniting the houses of Orange and Nassau. Their son, René of Chalon, was the first House of Nassau, Nassau to be ...
. The last members of the House. Philibert inherited the properties to Claudias' son, René, and then to the cousin of René, William the Silent. The two cousins were members of the House of Nassau-Dillenburg, to which the principality passed.
Family tree of House of Chalon-Arlay
Gallery of Arms of House of Chalon-Arlay
See also
* Chalon-Arlay , - , -References
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