Sunday, February 01, 2004

Polignac Family

From the 1050s and perhaps even from 860, the first viscounts of Polignac (in the modern d�partement of Haute-Loire) were practically independent rulers of Velay, where the Loire River rises. Their ultimate heiress, Valpurge, was married in 1349 to Guillaume III de Chalen�on, whose descendants assumed the Polignac name in 1421. The actual

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