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House Of Crussol
The House of Crussol (formerly Bastet), is a surviving family of French nobility, originally from Languedoc. Its members have included general officers, a governor, prelates, a woman of letters in the 18th century and deputies in 1789 and the 19th century. The title, Duke of Uzès, was given to the family in 1565 and the Peerage of France, Peerage in 1572. History The Crussol family has proven its nobility since 1215 and was admitted to the honors of the Court in the 18th century. Bastet: "a nickname taken by Gérald Bastet or Bastetz, lord of Crussol, of Cruszol, who lived in 1160". Crussol, from the name of a barony located in Vivarais near Valence, to end up completely substituting the name of Crussol for his original surname. Gérald Bastet was a nephew of Odon de Chaponay, Bishop of Valence. In 1565, the family was given the title of Duke of Uzès and the Peerage of France, Peerage in 1572. Branches Lords of Uzès, then Viscounts of Uzès (1486), then Dukes of Uzès (1565) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason Antoine De Crussol (1528-1573)
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: :' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Nobility
The French nobility (french: la noblesse française) was a privileged social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on June 23, 1790 during the French Revolution. From 1808 to 1815 during the First Empire the Emperor Napoléon bestowed titles that were recognized as a new nobility by the Charter of June 4, 1814 granted by King Louis XVIII of France. From 1814 to 1848 (Bourbon Restoration in France and July Monarchy) and from 1852 to 1870 (Second French Empire) the French nobility was restored as an hereditary distinction without privileges and new hereditary titles were granted. Since the beginning of the French Third Republic on September 4, 1870 the French nobility has no legal existence and status. However, the former authentic titles transmitted regularly can be recognized as part of the name after a request to the Department of Justice. Families of the French nobility could have two origins as to their principle of nobility: the families of immemorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François De Crussol, 4th Duke Of Uzès
François de Crussol, 4th Duke of Uzès (24 April 1604 – 14 July 1680), was a French soldier and courtier. Early life Crussol was born at the Château d'Uzès in Uzès in the Gard department in Southern France on 24 April 1604. He was the eldest son of Emmanuel de Crussol, 3rd Duke of Uzès, and Claudine d' Hébrard de Saint Sulpice. From his parents' marriage, he was brother to Jacques Christophe de Crussol (who founded the Marquis of Saint-Sulpice branch), Louis de Crussol (Abbot of Figeac and Conques, ''styled'' Marquis of Crussol), Alexandre Galliot de Crussol (who founded the Marquis of Montsalès branch), Anne Gaston de Crussol (Baron of Florensac who was killed at the Siege of Turin in 1640), and Louise de Crussol (who married Antoine Hercule de Budos, Marquis des Portes, and, after his death, Charles de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon de Rasse, brother to Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon). After his mother died in , his father married Marguerite d'Apchie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel De Crussol, 3rd Duke Of Uzès
Emmanuel de Crussol, 3rd Duke of Uzès (31 July 1570 – 19 July 1657), was a French soldier and courtier. Early life Crussol was born on 31 July 1570 in Paris. He was the eldest son of Jacques de Crussol, 2nd Duke of Uzès, and Françoise de Clermont-Tonnerre (1550–1594). His father had inherited the barony of Acier from his mother, before inheriting the dukedom from his elder brother, Antoine de Crussol, 1st Duke of Uzès. Among his younger sisters were Louise de Crussol (who married the Baron of Rieux in 1590), Marie de Crussol (who married the Count of Rochefort in 1590), and Diane de Crussol (who married the Baron of Tor in 1594). His paternal grandparents were Charles de Crussol, 9th Viscount of Uzès (eldest son of Jacques de Crussol), and Jeanne Ricard de Genouillac. His maternal grandparents were Antoine III, 1st Count of Clermont, and Françoise de Poitiers. His maternal uncle was Henri de Clermont, 1st Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre, and Anne de Clermont-Tonnerre (wife o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Crussol, 2nd Duke Of Uzès
Jacques de Crussol, 2nd Duke of Uzès (1540-1584) was a Protestant, then Catholic military commander and duke during the French Wars of Religion. Converting to Protestantism early due to the influence of his mother he would be acclaimed as defender of the Protestant church in Languedoc in early 1562. He would conduct a brutal campaign during the first civil war, capturing several towns and massacring their garrisons. With peace declared d'Acier involved himself in the conspiracy of Meaux that attempted to seize the king and execute his leading militant Catholic advisers. While the attempt to capture the king would be a failure, d'Acier would see success in the south, securing Nîmes and Montpellier for the rebels. With the conclusion of the civil war in early 1568 he would remain in the field, being defeated by Guillaume de Joyeuse shortly thereafter. When formal civil war resumed later that year d'Acier assembled a large army of the southern Protestant leaders and moved to jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peer Of France
The Peerage of France (french: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 in the Middle Ages. The prestigious title and position of Peer of France (french: Pair de France, links=no) was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the French nobility. French peerage thus differed from British peerage (to whom the term "baronage", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense), for the vast majority of French nobles, from baron to duke, were not peers. The title of ''Peer of France'' was an extraordinary honour granted only to a small number of dukes, counts, and princes of the Roman Catholic Church. It was analogous to the rank of ''Grandee of Spain'' in this respect. The distinction was abolished in 1789 during the French Revolution, but it reappeared in 1814 at the time of the Bourbon Restoration, which followed the fall of the First French Empire, when the Chamber of Peers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine De Crussol, 1st Duke Of Uzès
Antoine de Crussol, 1st Duke of Uzès (1528-1573) was Protestant military commander and peer of France. Raised in a Protestant household, Crussol was an early convert among the elite of France. In 1558 upon his marriage, his barony was elevated to a county by king Henri II of France, Henri II. In the troubles that spread through the south in the wake of the Conspiracy of Amboise he was appointed as 'lieutenant and commander' to help bring order back to Provence and Languedoc. In this role he favoured the Protestants, much to the irritation of the Catholic consuls. When the French Wars of Religion broke out, he entered rebellion, accepting the nomination of Governor of Languedoc from the estates of the region. He appointed his relatives to senior positions in his administration. With peace declared in the Edict of Amboise Crussol did not immediately relinquish power in Languedoc, and held on to his forces until August. Having finally returned to loyalty to the crown he accommodated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Crussol
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Crussol
Jacques de Crussol is the son of Louis de Crussol, a member of the chivalric Order of Saint-Michel. Born into a relatively small inheritance of the castle Crussol - later abandoned in favour of the castle in Uzès - Jacques was the first of his house to become viscount of Uzès. After the husband of the only daughter of the house of Uzès died without having left any successors, Jacques was the next to marry Simone d'Uzès. They married on 24 June 1486 and the two houses were thus joined on the condition that the house of Crussol would thereafter accept both the name of the house of Uzès and its coat of arms, incorporating it into their own. See also * Viscounts and Dukes of Uzès Lords, viscounts and then dukes of Uzès, in the Languedoc. Lords of Uzès (''Seigneur d'Uzès'') Viscounts of Uzès (''Vicomte d'Uzès'') Dukes of Uzès (''Duc d'Uzès'') The viscounty of Uzès became a duchy by letters patent of Charles IX ... References 1460 births 1525 deaths {{Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poitou
Poitou (, , ; ; Poitevin: ''Poetou'') was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers. Both Poitou and Poitiers are named after the Pictones Gallic tribe. Geography The main historical cities are Poitiers (historical capital city), Châtellerault (France's kings' establishment in Poitou), Niort, La Roche-sur-Yon, Thouars, and Parthenay. History A marshland called the Poitevin Marsh (French ''Marais Poitevin'') is located along the Gulf of Poitou, on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle and west of Niort. At the conclusion of the Battle of Taillebourg in the Saintonge War, which was decisively won by the French, King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental Plantagenet territory to France. This was ratified by the Treaty of Paris of 1259, by which King Louis annexed Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou). During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Poitou was a hotbed of Huguenot (French Calvinist Protestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seneschal
The word ''seneschal'' () can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or majordomo of a medieval great house. In a medieval royal household, a seneschal was in charge of domestic arrangements and the administration of servants, which, in the medieval period particularly, meant the seneschal might oversee hundreds of laborers, servants and their associated responsibilities, and have a great deal of power in the community, at a time when much of the local economy was often based on the wealth and responsibilities of such a household. A second meaning is more specific, and concerns the late medieval and early modern nation of France, wherein the seneschal (french: sénéchal) was also a royal officer in char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Crussol may refer to: In people * Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac (1700–1772), French translator and salonniere * Anne Emmanuel de Crussol d'Amboise (1726-1794), French nobleman and military officer * Antoine de Crussol, 1st Duke of Uzès (1528-1573), Protestant military commander and peer of France * Emmanuel de Crussol, 15th Duke of Uzès (1927-1999), French aristocrat * Jacques de Crussol, member of the chivalric Order of Saint-Michel * Jacques de Crussol, 2nd Duke of Uzès (1540-1584), Protestant, then Catholic military commander and duke during the French Wars of Religion * Louis de Crussol, 14th Duke of Uzès (1871-1943), French aristocrat and art collector * Margaret de Crussol d'Uzès (1932-1977), American‐born oil heiress In other * Château de Crussol, mostly-ruined French 12th century limestone castle {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
