State

Comtat Venaissin

historical countship

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This boundary
1274–1791
Founded
1274
Ended
1791
Capital
Carpentras, Pernes-les-Fontaines
Succeeded by
French constitutional monarchy

Overview

The Comtat Venaissin (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃ta vənɛsɛ̃]; Occitan: lo Comtat Venaicin; 'County of Venaissin'), often called the Comtat for short, was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791, in what is now the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southern France.

The state was a separate independent enclave within the Kingdom of France but not part of it, comprising the area around the city of Avignon (itself always a separate comtat) roughly between the Rhône, the Durance and Mont Ventoux, and a small exclave located to the north around the town of Valréas purchased by Pope John XXII. The Comtat also bordered (and mostly surrounded) the Principality of Orange. The region is still known informally as the Comtat Venaissin, although this term no longer has any political significance.

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All rulers (67)

  1. Alessandro Campeggio1542–1544
  2. Antonio Trivulzio, iuniore1544–1547
  3. Camille Mentuato1547–1552
  4. Théodore-Jean de Clermont-Tallard1553
  5. Jacques-Marie de Sala1554–1559
  6. Alexandre Guidiccione1560–1562
  7. Laurent Lenzi1562–1565
  8. Guillaume Du Blanc1585
  9. Domenico Grimaldi1585–1592
  10. Dominique Petrucci1589–1592
  11. Silvio Savelli1592–1593
  12. Domenico Grimaldi1592
  13. Antonin Gianotti1594–1595
  14. Giovanni Francesco Bordini1596–1599
  15. Carlo Conti1599–1604
  16. Pietro Francesco Montorio1604–1607
  17. Joseph Ferrier1607–1609
  18. François-Etienne Dulci1609–1610
  19. Filippo Filonardi1611–1614
  20. Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno1614–1621
  21. Guillaume Du Nozet1621–1622
  22. Octavien Corsini1622
  23. Cosimo de' Bardi1623–1629
  24. Marius Filonardi1629–1634
  25. Cardinal Mazarin1634–1637
  26. Federico Sforza1637–1645
  27. Laurent Corsi1645–1653
  28. Bernard Pinelli1645
  29. Didier Dominique Marini1653–1654
  30. John Nicholas Conti1655–1659
  31. Gaspard de Lascaris1659–1664
  32. Alexandre Colonna1664–1665
  33. Laurent Lomellini1665–1670
  34. Orazio Mattei1670–1671
  35. Azon Ariosti1670
  36. Pierre Bargellini1671–1672
  37. Marcello Durazzo1672–1673
  38. Charles Anguisciola1673–1676
  39. Hyacinthe Libelli1673–1677
  40. Hyacinthe Libelli1676–1677
  41. François Niccolini1677–1685
  42. Baldassarre Cenci1685–1691
  43. Lorenzo Fieschi1691–1692
  44. Daniele Dolfin1692–1696
  45. Filippo Antonio Gualterio1696–1700
  46. Jean-Baptiste Sicci1700
  47. Antonio Francesco Sanvitale1700–1703
  48. Antonio Banchieri1703–1706
  49. Sinibaldo Doria1706–1711
  50. Francesco Maurizio Gonteri1706–1731
  51. Alamanno Salviati1711–1717
  52. Francesco Maurizio Gonteri1717–1731
  53. Rainiero d'Elci1719–1731
  54. Philippe Bondelmonti1731–1739
  55. Francesco Maurizio Gonteri1731
  56. Niccolò Maria Lercari1739–1744
  57. Marcello Crescenzi1739
  58. Pasquale Acquaviva d'Aragona1744–1754
  59. Paul Passionei1754–1760
  60. Gregorio Salviati1760–1766
  61. François-Marie de Manzi1760–1774
  62. François-Marie de Manzi1766–1774
  63. Joseph Vincentini1767–1768
  64. François-Marie de Manzi1774
  65. Angelo Maria Durini1775–1776
  66. Jacques Filomarino della Rocca1776–1787
  67. Filippo Casoni1787–1790

Records (1)

  1. 1398–1403 — Siege of AvignonSiege

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