Duke of Guise

Duc de Guise was a title in the French nobility. It was first created in 1528 for Charles de Lorraine, a son of Duke René II of Lorraine who had married into the French royal house. This creation became extinct in 1688, and the lands passed to the Anne, Pfalzgravine of Simmern, a great-granddaughter of Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne (whose mother happened to have first married the 5th Duke of Guise) - although she was not the heiress in primogeniture, that being the Duke of Mantova and Montferrat. The dukedom was recreated for her and her husband Henri Jules de Bourbon-Condé in 1704. On the extinction of the Condé family, her descendants, in 1830, the heirs were the House of Orléans (descendants of Anne's granddaughter's Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Condé's daughter Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, the Duchess of Orleans), and the title of Duc de Guise was used as a courtesy title for members of this family in the nineteenth century, firstly for three sons of Henri d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale, and then for Jean, son of Robert d'Orléans, Duc de Chartres. Jean, Duc de Guise became Orléanist claimant to the throne of France as Jean III in 1926.

Dukes of Guise (1528)

• Claude de Lorraine, 1er duc de Guise (1496-1550; r.1528-1550)
• François de Lorraine, 2me duc de Guise (1520-1563; r. 1550-1563)
• Henri I de Lorraine, 3me duc de Guise (1550-1588; r. 1563-1588)
• Charles de Lorraine, 4me duc de Guise (1571-1640; r. 1588-1640); also duke of Joyeuse
• Henri II de Lorraine-Guise, 5me duc de Guise (1614-1664; r. 1640-1664)
• Louis Joseph de Lorraine, 6me duc de Guise (1650-1671; r. 1664-1671)
• François Joseph de Lorraine, 7me duc de Guise (1670-1675)
• Marie de Lorraine, 8me duchesse de Guise (1615-1688)