Duke of Aubigny is a title that was created in the Peerage of France in 1684. It was granted by King Louis XIV of France to Louise de Kérouaille, the last mistress of King Charles II of England, and to descend to Charles's illegitimate issue by her, namely to the descendants of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox (1672–1723) of Goodwood House in Sussex. Louis XIV also granted her the Château de la Verrerie, a former secondary seat of the Stewart Seigneurs d'Aubigny, Franco-Scottish cousins of the Stewart monarchs, seated from 1422 to 1672 at the Château d'Aubigny in the parish and manor of Aubigny-sur-Nère in the ancient province of Berry in France.
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond and Duke of Aubigny, by Allan Warren
The Peerage of France was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages.
Coats of arms of the twelve peers of France, 1516
Chamber of Peers in the Palais du Luxembourg (1841)