Bacquehem

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Coat of arms of the Marquis de Bacquehem

The Marquis de Bacquehem are an old noble family originally from the County of Artois , whose descendants emigrated to Austria in 1792 .

history

Olivier Marquis de Bacquehem 1908

Before 1150, a son from the noble Neufville-Witasse family, owners of the Bacquehem fief in Artois, married Marie de Boubaix. He combined the coat of arms of Neufville-Witasse with that of Boubaix and took the name Bacquehem.

The family gave birth to a number of distinguished figures in France. Etienne de Bacquehem, known as de Neufville, was canon and archdeacon of Notre Dame in Cambrai , later bishop of Damascus . Arnoul V was Marshal in the service of King Edward III in 1339 . of England .

1501 Jacques de Bacquehem was by King Louis XII. knighted. His grandson Olivier was head of the city of Douai in Artois.

In 1666 Jean Francois was granted the dignity of a member of the noble estates of Artois for himself and his descendants.

King Louis XV raised Charles Alexander de Bacquehem, married since February 28, 1767 to Philippine Marie Colette Countess de Thiennes de Rumbeke (1734–1774), on August 1, 1765 to marquis and united his goods in a marquisate. The Marquis lost his life during the turmoil of the French Revolution (October 29, 1792), and as a result his two sons, Christian Carl Maria (June 20, 1769 - December 18, 1841) and Philipp Leonhard Franz Xaver (October 28, 1771) emigrated ; † January 25, 1849), went to Austria in the same year and entered the kk military service.

Only the younger son, kk chamberlain and major , propagated the sex. On September 30, 1802, he married Henriette Auguste Josephine (October 18, 1771; † December 21, 1849) daughter of Count Joseph Murray von Melgum, who gave him daughter Maria Theresia Franziska and son Christian Peter Philipp Ghislain. On September 10, 1844, the Imperial and Royal Chancellery allowed him to prevalence the dignity of marquis in the Austrian imperial state for himself and his descendants according to the law of the firstborn.

Olivier Marquis de Bacquehem (1847–1917), grandson of the above, was an administrative lawyer, trade and interior minister, then governor of Styria, and finally president of the administrative court.

coat of arms

1767: Shield in gold diagonally red latticed (family coat of arms), top right with a green free quarter, in which a silver crossbar, which is covered with three black, mutilated blackbirds in a row (Boubaix). The shield is covered by a marquess crown on which a crowned helmet rises. A silver unicorn grows out of it, right-handed.

The helmet covers are red and gold, the shield is held by two inward-looking unicorns and the motto (actually cri de guerre) is Neufville Neufville.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Courcelles: “Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France”, Bureau Général de la Noblesse de France, Paris 1822, p. 28 f.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relationship", 3rd volume AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 10 f.
  3. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses, Volume 13, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha 1840, p. 347
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels-Lexicon , 1st volume, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1973, p. 165
  5. ↑ Bacquehem Oliver Marquis de. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 42.