Place:Villars-les-Dombes, Ain, France

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NameVillars-les-Dombes
TypeCommune
Coordinates46.0°N 5.033°E
Located inAin, France
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Villars-les-Dombes is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Its people are known as Villardois.

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The lordship of Villars (of which archival evidence dates from 940) became, by marriage, the lordship of Thoire-et-Vilars in 1188, and in about 1400 its caput was Trévoux (the estate was managed from there). In 1565, Villars was promoted to a marquisate dependent on the house of Savoie (Savoy), a benefice of the Honour of Savoy.

In 1705, the maréchal de Villars obtained the collection of several lands, a small French enclave in the (German-influenced) province of Franche-Comté, as the duchy of Villars. His line died out in 1788, on the death of his son, Honoré-Armand, 2nd Duke de Villars.

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