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Duchy of Montbazon

area around Montbazon, near Tours, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3040833 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Duchy of Montbazon is the area around Montbazon, near Tours, in France. During the Ancien Régime, Montbazon became a seigneurie held by the House of Rohan in the fifteenth century; was elevated to a comté in 1557, and raised to the level of a duchy in 1588.

List of lords of Guéméné, ca.

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The public source identifies “Duchy of Montbazon” as area around Montbazon, near Tours, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Duchy, Montbazon and area.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1557, 1588—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Duchy, Montbazon and area providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Duchy of Montbazon”, the useful work is to connect “area around Montbazon, near Tours, France” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3040833. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1557 and 1588.

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This entry incorporates text from “Duchy of Montbazon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.