Rigney (French pronunciation: [ʁiɲɛ]) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Its hamlet La Roche-sur-l'Ognon is also the most likely place of origin of the first ducal family of the Duchy of Athens, the de la Roche family.
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La Roche-sur-l'Ognon in the context of De la Roche
The de la Roche family was a French noble family named for La Roche-sur-l'Ognon in Burgundy, France that founded the Duchy of Athens 1204 and held it for just over a century.
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