Count of Champlitte

The title Count of Champlitte was created by letters patent on September 5, 1574 by Philip II, King of Spain, for Francois de Vergy, son of Guillaume de Vergy the Seigneur de Champlitte. Francois de Vergy was married to Marie de Bourgogne the granddaughter of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

The Counts of Champlitte were:

The Vergy family were a distinguished and ancient noble house in Franche-Comté and Burgundy who numbered among their ancestors both Robert 1, King of France, and Rudolph 1, King of Germany. They were the first historically attested owners of the Turin Shroud (1353). Francois de Vergy had been a page of honour to the Emperor, Charles V, and was Lt General and Governor of the County of Burgundy. In 1584 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Francois de Vergy had two sons, the elder of whom, Claude, died in 1588. His second son, Cleriadus, succeeded his father to the title. He was also Lt General and Governor of the County of Burgundy and in 1615 was made a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He had no children and the title and estate was inherited by his nephew Claude-Francois de Cusance, son of Beatrice de Vergy and Vaudelin-Simon de Cusance, the Baron of Belvoir and a Knight of the Golden Spur, later known as the Count of Champlitte.

Claude-Francois was a distinguished soldier and, as a colonel of the Empire he commanded 3,000 Burgundians in the service of the king of Spain. He had two sons and four daughters. The eldest daughter, Beatrice, married Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine and their descendants include the princely Dukes of Rohan and of Montbazon as well as the mignon Dukes of Joyeuse. The second daughter, Madeleine, married the Count van den Berg, whose descendants through the Hohenzollern dynasty include the emperor of Austria and kings of Bavaria, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain. The third daughter was a nun who founded the convent at Gray, and the last daughter married the Duke of Arenburg and Aarschot, governor of Hainaut.

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