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[4] [failed verification] [5] [6] [7] However, the former authentic titles transmitted regularly can be recognized as part of the name after a request to the Department of Justice. [8] Families of the French nobility could have two origins as to their principle of nobility: the families of immemorial nobility and the ennobled families. [9]
List of Dukes Creation Date History of the title Duchy of Auvergne: List: 1226–1271 1360–1521 1528–1532 1569–1574 1773–1778 1st creation: for Alphonse of France, Count of Poitiers. 2nd creation: for John of France, passed in 1434 to the Dukes of Bourbon, confiscated in 1521 by the king.
C. Victoire Cahouët de Villers; Camille du Bois de la Motte; Étienne de Cardaillac; Catherine de Cossé; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force; Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès
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Authentic titles are understood to mean titles erected by letters patent of the Sovereign (the King, or the Emperor Napoleon III, or possibly a foreign sovereign whose lands have become French), registered or published with a court of justice or sovereign (parliament, court of auditors, etc.), or even subordinate, which gives them a legal and permanent status.
The title of "duke and peer" (Fr: duc et pair) is one of the highest honors in the French nobility, ranking just after the princes of the blood, which are themselves the direct descendants of the royal blood and are considered peers by birth. The word peer comes from the Latin paris, meaning "equal in dignity".
In this category belong only those articles that are about noble titles that were bestowed by: either the ruling king of France during the existence of the kingdom and pretenders afterwards (843-present), as fount of honour