Honoré Caille, seigneur du Fourny (1630–1713) was a French
genealogist
Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinsh ...
.
An examiner at the
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See also
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in Paris, he collected the papers of the noted genealogist
Père Anselme Anselm de Guibours (born 1625) (Father Anselm of the Blessed Mary, O.A.D., french: Père Anselme de Sainte-Marie, or simply ''Père Anselme'') was a French Discalced Augustinian friar and noted genealogist.
Biography
He was born Pierre de Guibour ...
after his death in 1694, and in 1712 published a new edition of Father Anselm's great work, the ''Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, et des grands officiers de la couronne''.
After his death, this work was continued by
Father Angel of St. Rosalie (1655–1726) and
Father Simplicien (1683–1759), both
friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ...
s, like Father Anselm, at the ''Couvent des Petits Pères'', a priory of the
Discalced Augustinians
The Order of Discalced Augustinians (; abbreviation: OAD) is a mendicant order that branched off from the Order of Saint Augustine as a reform movement.
History
During the Counter-Reformation, there was a special interest among the Augustinian f ...
in Paris attached to the
Basilica of Our Lady of Victories.
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French genealogists
1630 births
1713 deaths
French male non-fiction writers