Brigadier-General Salomon de Blosset, Seigneur de Loche (c. 1648 – 21 October 1721) was a

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army officer. Born in the Dauphiné to Paul de Blosset, Seigneur des Eissarts, from a family of

s who had left their original home of the

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(one of the family, Louis de Blosset who led an attack against

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in 1563 escaped the

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in 1572). After the Revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 Loche at first fought in support of the Vaudois (as his father had done in 1663 ) and at some point came into the service of William of Orange along with many other Huguenot officers. He was recorded as leading a regiment of 800 for the

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on 17 July 1692 and fought at the

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on 4 October 1693 (where the

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's son

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was killed). He also fought at

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and in

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. As William of Orange became King

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, he was granted land in

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and settled in

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(along with many other

officers) where he is recorded as receiving 6

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s per day in pension.''The Irish Pensioners''
''of

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's Huguenot Regiments'', Huguenot Society of London Proceedings, Vol. 6, No. 3, Nov. 1899 He married firstly Catherine Oddos de Bonniot in France and a further time to a sister or sister in law of Captain Theophile de la Cour Des Brisay (whom he named as brother in law and

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in his will). He had four children by his first marriage: *Colonel Paul de Blosset of ''Blosset's Regiment of Foot or Blosset's Foot'' (died 13 November 1719), whose son Solomon Stephen Blosset was ancestor of

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and Henrietta, the wife of

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. *Major Anthony de Blosset *Captain Salomon or Solomon de Blosset or Blossett married Jeanne daughter of

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from whom descended Colonel John Blossett, and generations of actors beginning with

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, her son Tyrone Power, Sr. and grandson

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. *Marie de Blosset m. Jacques Teissonière de la Rouvière, Captain of

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