Roger de Saint-Lary de Termes

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Roger de Saint-Lary de Termes (d. 1646), nephew of Roger de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde, was a French duke.

He was a favourite with Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIII, and was royal master of the horse and governor of Burgundy. His estate of Seurre in Burgundy was created a duchy in the peerage of France (duché-pairie) in his favour under the name of Bellegarde, in 1619. In 1645 the title of this duchy was transferred to the estate of Choisy-aux-Loges in Gatinais, and was borne later by the family of Pardaillan de Gondrin, heirs of the house of Saint-Lary-Bellegarde. When Seurre passed into the possession of the Princes of Condé they in the same way acquired the title of dukes of Bellegarde.

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