Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Switzerland Substates

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Neûchatel (Nuremberg)

1373-94 Countess Regnant Isabelle
Succeeded by son of her sister, Rodolphe de Hochberg.

1503-05 and 1529-43 Countess  Regnant Jeanne de Hochberg
She succeeded father,
Philip, count of Baden-Hochberg-Sausenberg, and married to Louis d'Orleans

1573-1601 Regent Dowager Countess Marie de Bourbon
For the counts Henri I and Henri II

1672-74, 1679-82 and 1694-1707 Sovereign Princess Marie d'Orleans-Longeville
Also Duchess de Nemours. She lived (1625-1707)

1674-79 Sovereign Princess Anne Genevière de Bourbon-Condé

 Vaud (Waadt)

1248-59 Baroness Catharine de Savoie of Vaud
Daughter of Baron
Ludwig II. de Savoia of Waadt/Vaud and Isabella de Chalon. First married to Lord Azzo I. Visconti of Milano, Raoul II de Brienne, Comte d'Eu, and Connetable of France, who was executed in 1351, and finally to Count Guillaume de Dampierre-Namur. In 1359 she sold the Barony and the Lordhips of Nyon, Rolles, Morges, Yverdon, Moudon, Echellens, Volouz, Romont and Rye to Savoy She had three children by her third husband, and lived (ca. 1315-88).

 

 

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