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| Laborde de Monpezat | |
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| Country | |
| Founded | 1648[1] or 1655[2] |
| Current head | Frederik X |
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| Estate(s) | Château de Cayx |
The House of Monpezat (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃.pə.za]), also known as Laborde de Monpezat, is a French family from the province of Béarn that has been associated with the Danish royal family by marriage since 1967, when Henri de Laborde de Monpezat wed Princess Margrethe of Denmark. At that time, she was the heir presumptive to the throne of Denmark, and she subsequently became Queen of Denmark as Margrethe II. The current Danish monarch, King Frederik X, is agnatically a member of the Laborde de Monpezat family.
Members of the family owned three homes and farms in Monpezat and Beaufranc in Béarn that were declared "noble lands" by letters of 1655, but the family was denied twice (in 1703 and 1707) to be admitted with the nobility at the Estates of Béarn. Admission into the Estates of Béarn was a necessary condition to be recognized as noble in Béarn.[3] French historians and most recent reference authors, specialists of the French nobility, do not consider that the family belongs to the French nobility.[3][4]
- ^ Valynseele 1975
- ^ Chevé, Joëlle (1998). FeniXX (ed.). La Noblesse du Périgord: Au pays des 1.000 châteaux (in French). Perrin (réédition numérique FeniXX). ISBN 9782262059743.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
rejectwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ F. de Saint-Simon, Dictionnaire de la noblesse française, 1975, p. 60.
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