Since the Counts of Auvergne had been supporters of the English
Plantagenet, the French King Philip Augustus occupied part of Auvergne (including the capital
Riom) in 1195 and added it to the Domaine royal in 1213 as . After another military intervention by the King, caused by a dispute between the pro-English Count
Guy II of Auvergne and his pro-French brother
Robert of Auvergne,
Bishop of Clermont, the entire County was confiscated and incorporated into the . Guy's son and successor
William X of Auvergne later received back a small part of Auvergne, after breaking his contacts with England in 1228, and pledging his loyalty to the King of France. In 1356, King John II of France made the a Duchy for his third son
John, Duke of Berry. John’s daughter
Marie bore the title Duchess of Auvergne from 1370. With John’s death in 1416, the Duchy reverted to the crown, but was passed on to Mary’s third husband
John I, Duke of Bourbon in 1426. With the extinction of the Dukes of Bourbon in 1527, the title of Duke of Auvergne also expired. == Dukes of Auvergne ==