Most foreign princes did not initially use "prince" as a personal title. Since the families which held that rank were famous and few in the "ancien régime" of France, a title carried less distinction than the family surname. Thus noble titles, even "chevalier", were commonly and indifferently borne by foreign princes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries without any implication that their precedence was limited to the rank normally associated with that title. For instance, the title "vicomte de Turenne", made famous by the renowned marshal, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, was a subsidiary title traditionally borne by a junior member of the family. But he ranked as a "prince étranger" rather than as a viscount, being a cadet of the dynasty which reigned over the mini-duchy of Bouillon until the French Revolution.