In France of the Ancien Régime, the title of Count of Lyon was purely honorific. There had been a count of Lugdunensis, a military governor, in the early 5th-century Roman Notitia dignitatum, and among the Merovingians an Armentarius was 'count of Lugdunensis during the tenure of Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons (552-73). In a document of 818, a Bermond is noted as 'count of Lugdunensis, a non-hereditary appointment made by Charlemagne. But the title as inheritable was attached to the Count of Forez in a document of ca 1097, confirming the founding of a hospital at Montbrison, and it fell from use with comte Guy IV in the early 13th century.