List of counts and dukes of Vendôme
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Count of Vendôme, and, later, Duke of Vendôme, were French titles of nobility.

The first known holder of the title was Bouchard Ratepilate. The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon. In 1514, Vendôme was made a duchy-peerage. In 1589, the then-Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain.

It was re-granted to his illegitimate son César in 1598, and held by his descendants until the extinction of the true male line in 1727.

Counts of Vendôme

Bouchardides

• Bouchard Ratepilate (c. 930 – 956...967)
• Bouchard I (956...967–1005), also Count of Paris and Count of Corbeil by marriage
• Renaud (1005–1017), Bishop of Paris 991–1017

House of Nevers

• Bodon of Nevers (1017–1023), by marriage to Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou, daughter of Fulk III of Anjou and Elisabeth de Vendôme, daughter of Bouchard I
• Bouchard II (1023–1028)
  • under the regency of Fulk III of Anjou (1023–1027)
• shared between Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou and Fulk de Vendôme (1028–1032)

House of Anjou

• Geoffrey I (1032–1056), also Count of Anjou (succeeded Adèle by cession and drove out Fulk)

House of Nevers

• Fulk de Vendôme (1056–1066), reinstated by Henry I of France
• Bouchard III (1066–1085)
  • under the regency of Guy of Nouastre (1066–1075)

House of Preuilly

• Geoffrey II (1085–1102), Lord of Preuilly, married Euphrosine, daughter of Fulk of Vendôme
• Geoffrey III (1102–1137)
  • under the regency (1102–1105) of Euphrosine
• John I (1137–1180)
• Bouchard IV (1180–1202)
• John II (1202–1211)
  • under the regency (1202–1211) of Geoffrey, son of John I
• John III 1211–1217

House of Montoire

• John IV (1217–1230), Lord of Montoire, enate grandson of Bouchard IV
• Peter I (1230–1249)
• Bouchard V (1249–1270)
• John V (1271–1315)
• Bouchard VI (1315–1354)
• John VI (1354–1364)
• Bouchard VII (1364–1371)
• Catherine de Vendôme (1371–1372)
  • under the regency of her grandmother Jeanne de Ponthieu (1371–1372)
  • with John VII of Bourbon-La Marche (1372–1393)
  • with Louis I of Bourbon-Vendôme (1393–1403)

House of Bourbon

• Louis I (1403–1446
• John VIII (1446–1477)
• Francis I (1477–1495)
  • under the regency of Louis of Joyeuse (1477–1484)
• Charles IV (1495–1514), Count of Vendôme, title raised to Duke of Vendôme and entered the peerage 1514.

English Counts of Vendôme

• Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1424–1430), created Count of Vendôme by John, Duke of Bedford as regent for Henry VI of England as King of France

Dukes of Vendôme

House of Bourbon

• Charles IV (1514–1537)
• Anthony I (1537–1562), son of, King of Navarre from 1555
• Henry I (1562–1589), son of King of France from 1589, the Duchy became part of the royal domain when he was crowned

Personal title

The illegitimate arms of the Bourbon-Vendôme house

• Cesar I (1598–1665), illegitimate son of Henry IV of France by Gabrielle d'Estrees, born in 1594 and legitimized in 1596 (founder of the house of Bourbon-Vendôme)
• Louis II (1665–1669), son of
• Louis Joseph I (1669–1712), son of
• Philip I (1712–1727), brother of, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France

The Vendômois was annexed to the royal domain by Louis XIV of France in 1712, on the pretext that Philip's membership in the Order of Malta as grand prior ot France prevented him from holding them, but he retained the title.

• Louis III (1771–1789), later Louis XVIII of France

Courtesy title

The title was revived by Orleanists claimants to the throne of France as a courtesy title. However it is invalid in French law.

• Emmanuel (I) (1872–1931)
• John (IX) (b. 1965)