Villeroy may refer to:
Places
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Villeroy, Quebec
Villeroy is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and north ...
, a municipality in the province of Québec
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Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, a commune in the French region of Île-de-France
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Villeroy, Somme, a commune in the French region of Picardie
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Villeroy, Yonne, a commune in the French region of Bourgogne
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Villeroy-sur-Méholle, a commune in the French region of Lorraine
People
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Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy
Nicolas IV de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy (1543 – 12 November 1617) was a secretary of state under four kings of France: Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIII. The most distinguished of all sixteenth-century French secretaries, ...
(1543-1617), a secretary of state under
Henry III of France
Henry III (french: Henri III, né Alexandre Édouard; pl, Henryk Walezy; lt, Henrikas Valua; 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke o ...
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Henry IV of France
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...
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Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy
Nicolas V de Neufville de Villeroy (14 October 1598 – 28 November 1685) was a French nobleman and marshal of France. He was marquis then (from 1651) 1st duke of Villeroy and (from 1663) peer of France, marquis d'Alincourt and lord of Magny, and ...
(1598-1685), a French nobleman and governor of
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
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, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
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François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis.
People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, King o ...
(1644-1730), a French military leader
Historic buildings
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Hôtel de Villeroy, home of the Villeroy family from 1370 to 1671, still existing and located in Paris near the Louvre.
Other
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Villeroy & Boch
Villeroy & Boch (, ) is a German manufacturer of ceramics, with the company headquarters located in Mettlach, Saarland.
History
The company began in the tiny Lorraine village of Audun le Tiche, where the iron master François Boch set up a pott ...
, a manufacturer of ceramics
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