Hélie de Ventadour

Hélie de Ventadour, also numbered Eble VIII, was viscount of Ventadour from about 1297, the son of Eble VII and Blanche de Châteauneuf. In 1290 he married Marguerite de Beaujeu, daughter of Louis de Beaujeu, seigneur of Montferrand, a match that gave his descendants claims to the Montpensier inheritance.

Of their seven children, the eldest, Ebles, married Mathe de Comborn by contract of November 1314 and succeeded as viscount; the second son Bernard became viscount in 1329 and the first count of Ventadour in 1350, seizing Montpensier in 1346; Guy became bishop of Cambrai and then of Vabres, and Blanche married into the Comborn family. Hélie died in 1321.