List of counts and dukes of Vendôme

The first-known holder of the comital title was Bouchard Ratepilate.

The county passed by marriage to various houses, coming in 1372 to a junior branch of the House of Bourbon.

In 1589, the then Duke of Vendôme came to the throne as Henry IV of France, and the title passed into the royal domain.

It was re-granted to his illegitimate son César in 1598, and held by his descendants until the extinction of the legitimate male line in 1727.

The Vendôme name was annexed into the royal domain by Louis XIV of France in 1712, on the pretext that Philip's membership in the Order of Malta as grand prior of France prevented him from holding it, but he retained the title.