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Villeroy may refer to:


Places

* Villeroy, Quebec, a municipality in the province of Québec * Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, a commune in the French region of Île-de-France * Villeroy, Somme, a commune in the French region of Picardie * Villeroy, Yonne, a commune in the French region of Bourgogne * 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 (; ; ; 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 of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. As the fourth son of King Henry II of France, he ...
and
Henry IV of France Henry IV (; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (''le Bon Roi Henri'') or Henry the Great (''Henri le Grand''), was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 16 ...
* Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy (1598-1685), a French nobleman and governor of
Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
* François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi (1644-1730), a French military leader


Historic buildings

* 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 French-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 ...
, a manufacturer of ceramics {{geodis