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  1. The family, since its first appearance in history in the person of Bouchard I of Montmorency in the 10th century, has furnished six constables and twelve marshals of France, several admirals and cardinals, numerous grand officers of the Crown and grand masters of various knightly orders.

  2. La maison de Montmorency est une famille de la noblesse française. Entrée en possession à la fin du Xe siècle de la ville de Montmorency, dans l'actuel département du Val-d'Oise en Île-de-France, elle en a pris le nom. Dès ce siècle elle est apparentée aux grands lignages féodaux et par eux aux carolingiens et aux premiers rois capétiens.

  3. Montmorency family, one of France’s most illustrious families, which took its name from its seat at Montmorency in the Île-de-France, whence its head became traditionally known as “premier baron (or premier Christian) of France.”

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. The Montmorency family was one of the three families that struggled for control of the French crown during the Wars of Religion between 1562 and 1598. In time, the Montmorency became allied with the Bourbon family against the Guise, the third of the competing groups.

  5. MONTMORENCY, the name of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in France, derived from Montmorency, now in the department of Seine-et-Oise, in the immediate neighbourhood of Enghien and St Denis, and about 9 m. N.N.W. of Paris.