Titles of The House of Rochechouart
The members of the house of Rochechouart held 16 honours at court:
- Viscount of Rochechouart (980, the oldest title in France)
- Marquis of Montpipeau, by letters patent of Louis XIII
- Duc of Mortemart, by letters patent of Louis XIV (1650)
- Prince of Tonnay-Charente, by an accord of king Louis XIV
- Comte of Limoges, by an accord of king Louis XIV (1661)
- Duc of Vivonne, by letters patent of Louis XIV (1668) in favour of Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart
- Grand d'Espagne, 1st class (1701)
- Duke of Rochechouart, par lettres patentes de 1753
- Peer of France, by the ordinance of 4 June 1814, confirmed as a hereditary title in the ordinance of 17 August 1815
- Marquis–Hereditary peer by the ordinance of 31 August 1817
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