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House Of Béthune
The House of Bethune (french: Maison de Béthune ) is an ancient French nobility, French noble house from the province of Artois in the north of France whose proven filiation dates back to Guillaume de Béthune who made his will in 1213. This family became extinct in 1807 with Maximilien-Alexandre de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1784-1807). There are other families called de Bethune or Bethune, but their links with the house of Bethune are not proven. The original House of Béthune Lords of Béthune and advocates of Arras In 1639 André Du Chesne gave a lineage that went back to 1037, but the proven filiation dates back to Guillaume de Béthune called "Le Roux" who made his will in 1213 and died soon after. *Robert I (died about 1037), called ''Faisseux'', lord of Béthune, Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, Richebourg and Carency and Advocate of Arras, was the first of the house of Bethune, said to be descended from the County of Artois, Counts of Artois.(French) *Robert II, lord of Bét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason Maison De Béthune
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the blazon, 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, irony, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
