The Count of Orléans was the ruler of an area of modern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 around the city of Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

. The title was most commonly used in the Merovingian and Carolingian

Carolingian

The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...

 eras.

When Hugh Capet became King of the Franks, the county of Orléans became a part of the royal domain

Crown lands of France

The crown lands, crown estate, royal domain or domaine royal of France refers to the lands, fiefs and rights directly possessed by the kings of France...

. The lands formed part of the appanage

Appanage

An apanage or appanage or is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture...

s granted to various younger sons of Kings of France with the title Duke of Orléans.

Merovingian counts of Orléans

• Willachar, father-in-law of Chramn son of King Chlothar I

Carolingian counts of Orléans

• Adrian
• Matfrid
  Matfrid
  Matfrid was Count of Orléans in the reign of Emperor Louis the Pious. Historians presume that he was the first of Frankish noble clan known as the Matfridings, Matfridinger or Matfriede.-Matfrid:...
  
  , count from 818, frequently dispossessed
• Odo I
  Odo I, Count of Orléans
  Odo I was the Count of Orléans following the final deposition of Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later....
  
  
• Robert the Strong
  Robert the Strong
  Robert IV the Strong , also known as Rutpert, was Margrave in Neustria. His family is named after him and called Robertians. He was first nominated by Charles the Bald missus dominicus in 853. Robert was the father of the kings Odo and Robert I of France. Robert was the great-grandfather of Hugh...
  
  
• Odo II
  Odo, Count of Paris
  Odo was a King of Western Francia, reigning from 888 to 898. He was a son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, whose branch of the family is known as the Robertians....
  
  , later King
• Hugh Capet, later King

See also

• Countess of Orléans
• Duke of Orléans
• Orleanist
  Orléanist
  The Orléanists were a French right-wing/center-right party which arose out of the French Revolution. It governed France 1830-1848 in the "July Monarchy" of king Louis Philippe. It is generally seen as a transitional period dominated by the bourgeoisie and the conservative Orleanist doctrine in...
  
  
• Legitimist