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The House of Laborde de Monpezat ((:la.bɔʁd də mɔ̃.pə.za)) is a French family, known since the seventeenth century, associated with the Danish Royal Family by marriage. In 1967 Henri de Laborde de Monpezat wed Princess Margrethe of Denmark, heir presumptive of the ruling House of Glücksburg. In the event of ascension to the Danish throne of their son or male-line descendant, the main branch of the Danish Royal Family will belong patrilineally to the ''Laborde de Monpezat'' lineage. However, it is unclear which name the royal family will use in this event.〔(Danish Royalty ). Retrieved 19 April 2011.〕 ==Family background== The Labordes were a well-to-do family of the middle-class originating from the region of Béarn in southwestern France which took the name ''Laborde de Monpezat'', following the marriage of Jean Laborde to Catherine d'Arricau, ''dame'' de Monpezat on 16 August 1648. Letters patent of ennoblement were issued by Louis XIV of France in 1655.〔Dioudonnat, Pierre-Marie, ''Encyclopédie de la fausse noblesse et de la noblesse d'apparence'', Paris, Sedopols, 1976–79 (2 vols), French, p.208〕 But the elevation in status depended legally upon the family's recognition as noble by the province of Béarn, where their lands were located, in the form of registration of the king's decree by the Béarnaise Estates which, in 1703 and again in 1707, rejected the Laborde de Monpezat petition for validation.〔 Nonetheless, the family survived the French Revolution under the name of ''Monpezat''. By Napoleonic decrees, the family's requests to legally change their surname to ''de Laborde-Monpezat'' (on 14 July 1860) and then to ''de Laborde de Monpezat'' (on 19 May 1861) were granted.〔Joseph Valynseele, ''Les Laborde de Monpezat et leurs alliances'', Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1975, French〕 Under the present form of the name, the family supplied a mayor to the town of Pau in 1875; Aristide de Laborde de Monpezat (1830–1888), great grandfather of Prince Henrik. Sometime late in the nineteenth century, the Laborde de Monpezats assumed the comital style,〔 using it as if it were a ''titre de courtoisie'' (that is, as an unofficial prefix rather than as a substantive title, e.g. "''comte'' André de Laborde de Monpezat" rather than "André de Laborde, ''comte'' de Monpezat"). Traditionally the royal court and French society accepted such usage by genuinely noble families. However neither the nobility nor hereditary title of the Laborde de Monpezats is acknowledged as historically valid by the ''Encyclopédie de la fausse noblesse et de la noblesse d'apparence'' ((英語:Encyclopedia of False and Seeming Nobility)) (Pierre-Marie Dioudonnat, Paris, 1976-1997), nor did Régis Valette include the family in his ''Catalogue de la noblesse française'' (2002). Charondas, in his 'A quel titre' (Volume 37, 1970), describes the Laborde de Monpezat as "false nobles, low folk in the 17th century, not received in the states of Béarn due to 'alleged nobility,' and as having never had nobility in their family." On the other hand, since the title was assumed by Prince Henrik's ancestor prior to the twentieth century, it is possible he was unaware of the misuse until his family's history was scrutinized by genealogists after his engagement. Henrik's 1996 autobiography acknowledges the unsuccessful ennoblement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「House of Monpezat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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