The County of Mortain was a medieval county in France centered on the town of

Mortain Mortain () is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mortain-Bocage. Geography Mortain is situated on a rocky hill rising above the gorge of the C ...

. A choice landholding, usually either kept within the family of the

duke of Normandy In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western Kingdom of France, France. The duchy arose out of a grant of land to the Viking leader Rollo by the French king Charles the Simple, Charles III in ...

(or the

king of France France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the first ...

) or granted to a noble in return for service and favor. This was the main reason Mortain had so many counts, as shown below, during its long history.

Norman counts of Mortain

* Mauger of Corbeil (988–1032) * There are apparently few certain facts about William Warlenc, who was deprived of the County to the benefit of Robert (sometimes said to have been c.1055).(1032–1048) *

Robert, Count of Mortain Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror. He was one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastin ...

(1049–1104) *

William, Count of Mortain William of Mortain (bef. 1084–aft. 1140) was Count of Mortain and the 3rd Earl of Cornwall. Life William was the son of Robert, Count of Mortain, the half-brother of William I of England and Maud de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomerie, ...

(1104–1106) * Robert II of Vitré (1106–1112) * Stephen of England (1112–1135) * Eustace IV of Boulogne (1135–1141) *

Geoffrey of Anjou Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Handsome, the Fair (french: link=no, le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. Hi ...

(1141–1144) * William of Blois (1154–1159) * ''Vacant'' * Marie of Boulogne and

Matthew of Alsace Matthew, Count of Boulogne, also known as ''Matthew of Alsace'' (–1173) was the second son of Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Matthew forcibly abducted the nun Marie de Boulogne, daughter of Stephen, King of England, and constr ...

(1167–1173) * ''Vacant'' *

John I of England John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empi ...

(1189–1199) * Ida, Countess of Boulogne and

Renaud de Dammartin Renaud de Dammartin (Reginald of Boulogne) (c. 1165 – 1227) was Count of Boulogne from 1190, Count of Dammartin from 1200 to 1214 and Count of Aumale from 1204 to 1214. He was son of Alberic III of Dammartin and Mathilde of Clermont. Broug ...

(1204–1216) *

Matilda II of Boulogne Mahaut or Matilda II of Boulogne (also known as ''Mathilde'', ''Maud de Dammartin''; 1202 – January 1259) was Count of Boulogne, Countess of Boulogne in her own right and List of Portuguese queens, Queen of Portugal by marriage to King Afonso I ...

(1216–1245) and... **

Philip Hurepel Philip I of Boulogne (Philip Hurepel) (1200–1235) was a French prince, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis in his own right, and Count of Boulogne, Mortain, Aumale, and Dammartin-en-Goële ''jure uxoris''. Philip was born in September 1200, the son ...

(1216–1233) ** Afonso III of Portugal (1238–1245) *

Jeanne de Dammartin Joan of Dammartin (french: Jeanne; 1220 – 16 March 1279) was Queen of Castile and León by marriage to Ferdinand III of Castile. She also ruled as Countess of Ponthieu (1251–1279) and Aumale (1237–1279). Her daughter, the English queen Ele ...

(1245–1251) and .. ** Walter of Châtillon (1245–1250) * ''Vacant'' * Joan II of Navarre (1328–1349) * ''Vacant'' *

Peter d'Évreux Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

(1401–1412) * Catherine of Alençon (1412–1416) (his widow) and.. **

Louis, Duke of Guyenne Louis (22 January 1397 – 18 December 1415) was the eighth of twelve children of King Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. He was their third son and the second to hold the titles Dauphin of Viennois and Duke of Guyenne, inheriting th ...

(1412–1413) **

Louis VII of Bavaria Louis VII (c. 1368 – 1 May 1447), called the Bearded (German: ''Ludwig der Bärtige'') was the Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt from 1413 until 1443. He was a son of Duke Stephen III and Taddea Visconti. Biography As brother of Isabella of Bavari ...

, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1413–1416) *

Jean Dunois Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois (23 November 1402 – 24 November 1468), known as the "Bastard of Orléans" (french: bâtard d'Orléans) or simply Jean de Dunois, was a French military leader during the Hundred Years' War who participated in m ...

(1416–1417) and.. **

Charles of Le Maine Charles du Maine (1414–1472) was a French prince of blood and an advisor to Charles VII of France, his brother-in-law, during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of Louis II, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples, and Yolande of Aragon. I ...

(1416–1417) ** Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1416–1417)

English counts of Mortain

* Edward Holland (1418–1419) *

Thomas Langholme Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

(1419–?) * John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (?–1435) * Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1435–1449)

French counts of Mortain

(1449–1472) *

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446 – 10 December 1481) was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Le Maine, Count of Maine and Isabelle of Luxembourg. He succeeded his father as Count of Maine ...

(1472–1481) * ''Royal Domain'' * Louis II, Duke of Montpensier (1529–1582) * Francis, Duke of Montpensier (1582–1592) * Henri de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier (1592–1608) *

Marie de Bourbon, duchesse de Montpensier Marie de Bourbon (15 October 1605 – 4 June 1627), Duchess of Montpensier, and Duchess of Orléans by marriage, was a French noblewoman and one of the last members of the House of Bourbon-Montpensier. Her parents were Henri de Bourbon, '' ...

(1608–1627) and.. ** Gaston de France, duc d'Orléans (1626–1660) (her widower) * Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1660–1693) * Philippe de France, duc d'Orléans (1693–1701) * Philippe II d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans (1701–1723) * Louis d'Orléáns, duc d'Orléans (1723–1752) * Louis Philippe I d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans (1752–1785) * Louis Philippe II d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans (1785–1786) * ''Royal Domain'' * Henri d'Orléans, comte de Paris, duc de France (1984–2019) (never recognised it as his main title)

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