Bourbon-Penthièvre was an illegitimate branch of the House of Bourbon, thus descending from the Capetian dynasty. It was founded by the duc de Penthièvre (1725–1793)...

marriage, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre (derived from the duchy inherited by her father). The style of Mademoiselle de Penthièvre had been previously borne...

Chartres. During his lifetime, the duc de Penthièvre had one passion, that of collecting watches. Penthièvre was one of the wealthiest men of his day and...

to the Penthievre indicating he had cancelled the conditional renunciation of the Penthièvre to the Ducal estate: John II, Count of Penthièvre (son of...

Count of Penthièvre and Viscount of Limoges from 1364 to 1404, and the Penthièvre claimant to the Duchy of Brittany. John was born in Jurgon-les-Lacs in...

of Poland; married Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre, and was the father of Louis-Philippe King of the French; Louise Marie...

Claude-Martin Goupy, the architect of the duc de Penthièvre, for the princesse de Lamballe, Penthièvre's widowed daughter-in-law. The Musée Rambolitrain...

1623), Duchess of Penthièvre from 1569 to 1623, Princess of Martigues, was the daughter of Sebastien de Luxembourg, Duke of Penthièvre and Marie de Beaucaire...

lands of the county of Dreux had been given to Penthièvre by his cousin King Louis XVI. In 1783, Penthièvre sold his domain of Rambouillet to Louis XVI....

his marriage to Joan the Lame, Countess of Penthièvre, he had five children: John I, Count of Penthièvre (1340–1404) and Viscount of Limoges. Guy Henry...