• counties:
  
  • Nevers (with Rethel and the baronny of Donzy): passed to Courtenay 1192, Bourgogne 1266, Flanders 1280, raised to a peerage 1347, 1459, 1464, 1515;  Bourgogne 1385, Clèves 1491, raised to a duchy-peerage 1539; passed to Gonzague 1601; sold to Mazarin 1659; raised to a duchy-peerage 1660
  
  
  • Tonnerre (Bourgogne): to Bourgogne, to Châlon 1346, to Husson 1453, to Clermont 1540, raised to a duchy-peerage 1572, sold 1684 to Louvois
  
  
  • Saint-Pol (Artois): to Châtillon 1219, to Luxembourg 1371, to Bourbon 1495, to Longueville 1601, sold to Elisabeth de Lorraine-Lillebonne, princess of Epinoy; passed on the death of her son in 1724 to his sister, princesse de Soubise
  
  
  • Vendôme: to Bourbon 1412, not united to the crown when Henri IV acceded but given by him to his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées and her issue, extinct 1712, at which time it went to the crown
  
  
  • Armagnac: to Alençon 1497, to Albret 1549, united to the crown 1589 on the accession of Henri IV
  
  
  • Blois and Châteaudun/Dunois: sold to Louis d'Orléans 1397, united to the crown 1498 on the accession of Louis XII
  
  
  • Foix, Comminges: passed to Albret, then united to crown 1589
  
  


• viscountcies were common in particular areas like Limousin, Poitou and Gascogne.
  
  • Limoges (Limousin): to the Comborn family in the 12th c., the dukes of Brittany in 1301, to Châtillon-Blois family in 1384, to Albret in 1481, united to the crown in 1589
  
  
  • Turenne (Limousin): to Comborn in 10th c., to Comminges in 1335, sold in 1350 to Beaufort, to La Tour in 1490, sold to the crown in 1738
  
  
  • Comborn (Limousin): in the family of that name, to Pompadour in the 16th c., family extinct early 18th c.
  
  
  • Ventadour (Limousin): raised to a county 1350, to a duchy 1578, to a duchy-peerage 1589; passed to Rohan-Rohan in 1727.
  
  
  • Lavedan (Gascogne): late 15th c. to Charles, bastard of Bourbon; to gontaut in 1610; to Philippe de Montault, raised to a duchy in 1650
  
  
  • Narbonne: to Lara in 1193, sold 1447 to Foix, exchanged with the crown against Nemours in 1507
  
  
  • Thouars (Poitou): to Amboise, to La Trémoille 1446, raised to a duchy 1563, duchy-peerage 1595
  
  
  • Rohan (Bretagne): in the Rohan family, 1648 to the Rohan-Chabot family; raised to a duchy-peerage 1603, and again in 1648
  
  
  • numerous viscountcies in Gascogne:
    
    • Couserans (to Comminges, Foix, Mauléon, Modave, Polignac)
    
    
    • Fézansaguet (to Armagnac 1140)
    
    
    • Gabardan
    
    
    • Gimois
    
    
    • Labourd
    
    
    • Magnoac
    
    
    • Maremnes
    
    
    • Marsan
    
    
    • Nébouzan
    
    
    • Quatre-Vallées
    
    
    • Soule
    
    
    • Tursan
    
    
  
  


• vidames: see special page


• "sireries", which were lordships of high standing or castellanies:
  
  • Pons (Saintonge): to Albret de Miossans 16th c., to Lorraine afterwards
  
  
  • Mortagne (Saintonge): to Aulnay, Clermont, Montberon, Coetivy, Matignon, Loménie
  
  
  • Coucy: divided in 1397, part to Orléans (united to the crown 1498), part to Luxembourg, then Bourbon (united to the crown 1589)
  
  
  • Beaujeu (with Dombes): ceded 1400 to the duc de Bourbon
  
  
  • Craon: to La Trémoille
  
  
  • Sully: to La Trémoille, sold 1602 to Maximilien de Béthune, raised to a duchy-peerage 1606
  
  

From http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/noblesse.htm