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| | Armory of the pre-1789 French Peerage |
 | | Marie Charlotte de Luxembourg (to whom it would have otherwise returned) simultaneously resigned the peerage in 1661 to her daughter Madeleine and her son-in-law Francois-Henri de Montmorency, comte de Luxe (1628-95), maréchal de France 1675, SE 1688. |
 | | Montmorency (Beaufort) (1688, F): for Charles-Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry, eldest son of the duc de Piney-Luxembourg, who had bought the duchy of Beaufort from the duc de Vendôme. The name was changed to Montmorency in 1689. |
 | | The lordship of Châtillon was left to the widow of the last duc de Châtillon, Angelique-Elisabeth de Montmorency, who left it to her nephew, Paul-Sigismond, younger son of François-Henri duc de Piney. |
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