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Jean De Forcade, Seigneur De Biaix
Jean de Forcade, (* before 1635, presumably in Boeil, Béarn; † 9 November 1684, Pau, Béarn), was a ''Fermier des monnaies de Béarn et Navarre''Chaix d'Est-Ange, Tome 18, Page 31(in French)/ref>Charlet & Arbez, Pages 223-264(in French)/ref> ( Lessee of the Mints of Béarn and Navarre). He was a descendant of the noble family of Forcade from Béarn in the Kingdom of Navarre, a Protestant nobleman, but abjured from ProtestantismChaix d'Est-Ange, Tome 18, Page 31(in French)/ref> shortly before the end of his life, under intimidation from the policy of harassment of religious minorities through the use of dragonnades, created in 1681, to intimidate Huguenots into converting to Catholicism or to leave France, and under the threat of confiscation of properties of nobles who did not convert. ''Jean de Forcade'' is the founder of the Forcade-Biaix family line,Jougla de Morenas, Tome 4, Page 28 (in French) through his 1659 acquisition of the noble fief of ''Biaix'' in the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béarn
The Béarn (; ; oc, Bearn or ''Biarn''; eu, Bearno or ''Biarno''; or ''Bearnia'') is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, the Principality of Bidache, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms in the southwest the current ''département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64). The capitals of Béarn were Beneharnum (until 841), Morlaàs (from ca. 1100), Orthez (from the second half of the 13th century), and then Pau (beginning in the mid-15th century). Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces Soule and Lower Navarre to the west, by Gascony ( Landes and Armagnac) to the north, by Bigorre to the east, and by Spain (Aragon) to the south. Today, the mainstays of the Béarn area are the petroleum industry, the aerospace industry through the helicopter turboshaft engine manufacturer Turbomeca, tourism and agriculture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
