The Lords of Brancion were a French aristocratic family which traced its origins to 10th century Burgundy and were later known as the Counts of Raguet-Brancion.

Family

The line began in a small town near

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. Its first member, Varulphe, the Earl of Brancion, controlled towns on the

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, Rhone and

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rivers around the year 960. In later centuries the family held the towns of

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and Traves, along with high church offices such as

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. By the 19th century the family name had become Raguet-Brancion. Those to bear variants of this name include: * War hero Colonel Adolphe-Ernest Raguet de Brancion, who died in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol. * Law professor Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère (born Jacqueline Geneviève Marie Bernadette Chatel de Raguet de Brancion in 1940).

Arms

The coat of arms is a blue shield with golden waves and two silver towers each topped by a silver rat, or in French heraldic terms: :''Ecartelées d'un champ d'azur à trois fasces ondées d'or, à une tour d'argent maçonnée de sable, surmontée d'un rat d'argent passant.'' :(Quartered with a field of azure with three wavy fesses of gold, with a tower of silver masonry of sand, surmounted by a walking silver rat).

References

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External links

* Château de Brancion (French Wikipedia) * Adolphe-Ernest Raguet de Brancion (French Wikipedia) History of Burgundy

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