Vendome (disambiguation)

Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher French pronunciation: [vɑ̃dom]) is a town in central France. Most other uses of Vendome or Vendôme commemorate the famous French general Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1654 – 1712).

People

The Vendôme family were French nobles, lords of the town, who eventually came to the French throne as the Bourbon dynasty. See List of counts and dukes of Vendôme. Notable members include:

• Renaud of Vendôme, both bishop of Paris from 991 to 1017 as well as count of Vendôme (1005–1017).
• Fulk of Vendôme, count of Vendôme from 1028 until his expulsion in 1032 and again from 1056 to his death in 1066
• Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou and count of Vendôme
• Geoffrey II of Vendôme, count of Vendôme 1067-1085
• John VI of Vendôme to 1365
• Catherine of Vendôme, 1372 to 1403
• Louis, Count of Vendôme to 1446, son of the above

From then on see House of Bourbon

Locations

• Place Vendôme, large square in Paris, with the Vendôme column (see Place Vendome for other uses)
• Vendôme Tower, fort in Malta built 1715
• Vendôme Battery, large 18th-century gun-platform in Malta
• Vendome (restaurant), near Cologne, Germany
• The Vendome and the St. Ives, historic houses in Worcester, Mass.
• Le Vendôme Intercontinental Hotel, Beirut

Transport

• Vendôme (Montreal Metro), Montreal metro station
• Vendôme (AMT), Montreal commuter rail station

Other

• Vendome Group, American publishers
• Vendôme (typeface), designed 1954