Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The title of Duke de La Rochefoucauld was a French peerage belonging to one of the most famous families of the French nobility, whose origins go back to lord Rochefoucauld in Charente (department) in the 10th and 11th centuries (with official evidence of nobility in 1019). It became Rochefoucauld in the 13th Century.

Authors have advanced, but without evidence, that the first member of this family, Adémar, known as Amaury or Esmerin, by Viscounty of Limoges, or the son of the lord Hugh I of Lusignan. This last hypothesis could renforced by the armorial bearings of the family. Work of André Debord make it leave house of Montbron to the 12th century.

The seigniory of La Roche was originally a barony in the 13th century. The descendants of Foucauld I de La Roche and of Jarsande, united their name Foucauld.

King Francis I created the barony de La Rochefoucauld in April 1528.

Louis XIII raised the comté de La Rochefoucauld into a duchy-pairie on 22 April 1622.

Burelé d’argent et d’azur, à trois chevrons de gueules brochant sur le tout, le premier écimé.

These arms except for a crack, are close to those of Lusignan (burelé d'or and d'azure). That is why certain authors claimed, with twists, that it House of Rochefoucauld a community that had its origin with that of Lusignan. and

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