The County of Brienne was a medieval

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centered on Brienne-le-Château. Coat of arms of the House of Brienne (Counts of Brienne)

Counts of Brienne

* Engelbert I * Engelbert II * Engelbert III * Engelbert IV * Walter I (? – c. 1090) * Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?) * Walter II (c. 1120? – c. 1161) * Erard II (c. 1161 – 1191) * Walter III (1191–1205) * Walter IV (1205–1246) *

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(1246 – c. 1260) * Hugh (c. 1260–1296) *

Walter V Walter V of Brienne (french: Gautier; – 15 March 1311) was Duke of Athens from 1308 until his death. Being the only son of Hugh of Brienne and Isabella de la Roche, Walter was the heir to large estates in France, the Kingdom of Naples, and the ...

(1296–1311) * Walter VI (1311–1356) * Isabella (1356–1360) ''with her son:'' * Sohier (1356–1364) * Walter VII (1364–1381) * Louis I (1381–1394) *

Margaret Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular through ...

(1394–1397) ''with her husband:'' *

John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir John of Luxembourg (''Jean de Luxembourg'') ( – bef. 2 July 1397, ItalyDouglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry, Vol. V''. p. 422.), was Lord of Beauvoir (or Beaurevoir) and Richebourg, and also (as ''John II'') Count of Brienne and Conversano (). ...

(1394–1397) * Peter I, comte de St-Pol (1397–1433) * Louis I, comte de St-Pol (1433–1475) * Peter II, comte de St-Pol (1475–1481) *

Anthony I, Count of Ligny Anthony I, Count of Ligny (1450–1519) was the youngest son of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and his wife, Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons. In 1482, he inherited the County of Brienne from his brother Peter II, Count of ...

(1481–1519) * Charles I, Count of Ligny (1519–1530) *

Anthony II, Count of Ligny Anthony II, Count of Ligny (d. 8 February 1557) was a son of Count Charles I and his wife Charlotte of Estouteville. In 1530, he succeeded his father as count of Ligny Ligny ( wa, Lignè) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipal ...

(1530–1557) *

John III, Count of Ligny John III, Count of Ligny (died 1 July 1576) was the eldest son of Count Anthony II and his wife Margaret of Savoy. He succeeded his father as Count of Brienne and Ligny in 1557. He arrived in Edinburgh on 2 November 1566 as the ambassador of S ...

(1557–1576) * Charles, Duke of Brienne (1576–1608) (created Duke of Brienne in 1587; extinct on his death) * Louise, Countess of Brienne (1608–1647) * Louise de Béon (1647–?) ''with her husband:'' **

Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brienne Henri-Auguste de Loménie (1594 – 3 November 1666), Count of Brienne, Seigneur de La Ville-aux-Clercs was a French politician. He was secretary of state for the navy from 1615 to February 1643, and then secretary of state for foreign affairs ...

(1647–1666) * Louis Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1666–1698) * Nicholas de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1698–1758) *

Athanase Louis Marie de Loménie, comte de Brienne Louis-Marie-Athanase de Loménie, Comte de Brienne (20 April 1730 – 10 May 1794) was a French officer and politician, who was guillotined during the French Revolution. Life He was from the younger branch of the Lomenie Flavignac family origina ...

(1758–1794)

References

External links

Medieval Lands Project on all the Comtes of Brienne
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