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LONGUEVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 986 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LONGUEVILLE  , the name of a

French
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family which originated with
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Jean, count of Dunois, the " Bastard of Orleans, " to whom Charles VII. gave the countship of Longueville in
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Normandy in 1443 . Francois of Orleans, count of Longueville, was created duke in 15os . The
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marriage of his
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brother Louis with Jeanne, daughter and heiress of Philip, count of Baden-Hochberg-Sausenberg (d . 1503), added considerable estates to the house of Longueville . Henry, duc de Longueville (d . 1663), took an important
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part in the
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Fronde, and for a long time held the royal troops in check in Normandy . His wife, Anne Genevieve (see below), was a leading figure in the
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political dissensions of the time . The last of the family was Jean Louis, the Abbe d'Orleans, who died in 1694 . The numismatist, Charles d'Orleans-Rothelin (169 r—i 744), belonged to a bastard branch of the family .

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