Editing Count of Paris

{{Short description|French noble title}}
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[[Image:Blason paris 75.svg|thumb|right|200px|Coat of arms of Paris]]
'''Count of Paris''' ({{Langx|fr|Comte de Paris}}) was a title for the local [[magnate]] of the district around [[Paris]] in [[Carolingian]] times. After [[Hugh Capet]] was elected [[Philip II of France|King of the Franks]] in 987, the title merged into the crown and fell into disuse. However, it was later revived by the [[Orléanist]] pretenders to the French throne in an attempt to evoke the legacy of Capet and [[Capetian dynasty|his dynasty]].

==Merovingian counts==
===Guideschi===
{{main|Widonids}}
* [[Bodilon]]
* till 678: [[Saint Warinus]] (620–678)

===Pippinids===
* 748–753: [[Grifo (noble)|Grifo]] (726–753), son of [[Charles Martel]] and his second wife, [[Swanahild]]

==Carolingian counts==
===Girardids===
* 759/760–779: [[Gerard I of Paris|Gerard I]] (died 779) 
* 779–811: Stephen (754–811), son of previous
* 811–813: [[Leuthard I of Paris]] (?–813), brother of previous and also [[County of Fézensac|Count of Fézensac]]
* 813–816: [[Beggo, Count of Toulouse|Beggo]] (?–816), brother of previous and also [[Count of Toulouse]]
* 838–841: [[Girart de Roussillon|Gerard II]] (810–877/879), son of [[Leuthard I of Paris|Leuthard I]] and brother of [[Adalard the Seneschal]], also duke of [[Viennois]]
* 841–858: [[Leuthard II of Paris]] (806–858), son of Beggo

===Welfs===
* 858–859: [[Conrad I, Count of Auxerre|Conrad I the Elder]] (800–862/4), also Count of Argengau and of Linz

===Girardids===
* 877–?: [[Adalard of Paris|Adalard]] (830–890), [[Count palatine]], father of [[Adelaide of Paris|Adelaide]] who was the wife of King [[Louis II of France]]

===Robertians===
* 882/3–888: [[Odo, Count of Paris|Odo]] (857–898), later king of [[West Francia]]
* 888–922: [[Robert I of France|Robert]] (866–923), also [[Count of Blois]], [[Count of Anjou|Anjou]], [[Tours]], and [[Orléans]], [[Margrave of Neustria]], and later king of [[West Francia]]
* 923–956: [[Hugh the Great]] (898–956), also [[Duke of the Franks]]
* 956–987: [[Hugh Capet]] (939–996), later [[King of the Franks]]

===Bouchardids===
* 987–1005: [[Bouchard I of Vendôme|Bouchard I the Venerable]] (died 1005), also [[Count of Vendôme]], [[Corbeil-Essonnes|Corbeil]], and [[Melun]]
* 1005–1017: [[Renaud of Vendôme]] (991–1017), also [[Bishop of Paris]] as well as [[Count of Vendôme]]

==Orléanist counts==
===July Monarchy===
In 1838, during the [[July Monarchy]], King [[Louis-Philippe I]] granted the title to his newly born grandson, [[Prince Philippe, Count of Paris|Philippe]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Le marquis de Flers|translator=Constance Majendie|title=Le comte de Paris|publisher=W. H. Allen & Co.|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028224172/page/n29 6]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028224172 |year=1889}}</ref> After Louis-Philippe abdicated during the [[French Revolution of 1848]], [[Orléanist]] monarchists considered Philippe and his descendants to be the legitimate heirs to the throne. In 1870, at the beginning of the [[French Third Republic]], Philippe and the Orléanists agreed to support the [[legitimist]] [[pretender]], [[Henri, Count of Chambord]], but resumed Philippe's claims after Henri's death in 1883.

* 1838–1848: [[Prince Philippe, Count of Paris|Philippe, Count of Paris]] (1838–1894)

===Counts of Paris without legal creation===
In 1929, Orléanist pretender [[Prince Jean, Duke of Guise|Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise]] (1874-1940) granted the title "Count of Paris" to his only son [[Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)|Henri d'Orléans]] (1908–1999), a courtesy title Henri retained until his death and under which he was best known. After him, the title has been adopted by his successors in capacity as the Orléanist pretender to the French throne.

* 1929–1999: [[Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999)|Henri, Count of Paris]] (1908–1999)
* 1999–2019: [[Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019)|Henri, Count of Paris]] (1933–2019)
* 2019–present: [[Jean, Count of Paris]] (born 1965)<ref>{{cite news |title=Le prince Jean d'Orléans est officiellement le nouveau comte de Paris |url=https://www.parismatch.com/Royal-Blog/royaute-francaise/Le-prince-Jean-d-Orleans-est-officiellement-le-nouveau-comte-de-Paris-1603160 |work=Paris Match |date=4 February 2019 |language=fr}}</ref>

The next in line is Jean's eldest son, Prince Gaston Louis Antoine Marie d’Orléans (born 2009).

==See also==
* [[List of French monarchs]]
* [[Siege of Paris (885-886)]]
* [[House of Capet]]
* [[Orléanist]]s

==References==
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