Beaulieu-Marconnay
Beaulieu-Marconnay is the name of an originally French noble family . The family belonged to the ancient nobility of the Poitou . The headquarters, Marconnay Castle, is located near the municipality of Sanxay in the Vienne department .
history
The name Marconnay is mentioned in documents as early as the 12th century. The secured family line begins in 1287 with Jehan Marconnay . Another Jean de Marconnay was bishop of Maillezais from 1342 to 1359 and Melchior de Marconnay from 1607 to 1618 bishop of Saint-Brieuc . The sex was wealthy in Poitou and in the Touraine .
The three sons of Louis II. De Marconnay founded three lines in the middle of the 17th century, but only the middle one, from Louis III. de Marconnay , who stayed in France after the Edict of Fontainebleau (October 18, 1685). She later received the French Marquis title in Primogeniture . This branch was extinguished as early as 1856, before an intended transfer of the title to the youngest, now in Germany- based line, Beaulieu-Marconnay, could be carried out.
The oldest line founded by Gabriel de Marconnay emigrated to the Mark Brandenburg . Christian Louis von Marconnay belonged to her , who was still in the diplomatic service of Frederick the Great and with his grandson in 1801 this line also expired.
The descendants of the youngest son Olivier I. de Marconnay, Seigneur de Beaulieu , held the position of chief hunter at the court of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg for three generations . You were recognized as Barone Beaulieu-Marconnay. Later relatives entered the Oldenburg and Austrian services. On December 7th, 1846 there was a grand ducal-Oldenburg confirmation of the baron status for Wilhelm Baron von Beaulieu-Marconnay , secret councilor and thief, and on December 31, 1846 an Austrian recognition of the title of baron for Olivier Baron von Beaulieu-Marconnay . Another important representative of this line was Karl Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay , who was in the ducal-Weimar state and court services . He was the envoy of the Thuringian states to the Bundestag and an important literary historian .
Branches of the family still exist today.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in red under a golden shield head , three false posts with lowered blue iron hats in silver. On the helmet there is a blue-gold-red wound band ( helmet bulge ), on it is the torso of a golden dragon between two silver dragon wings, around whose horns a band with the field call "Chastillon" is wound (in later depictions). The helmet covers are red-gold on the right and blue-gold on the left.
Known family members
- Olivier von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1660–1751), Hanoverian chief hunter, brother-in-law of Eleonore d'Olbreuse , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- Carl von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1777–1855), Hanoverian general and head forester
- Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu (1725-1819), Austrian general
- Wilhelm Ernst von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1786–1859), Oldenburg statesman
- Karl von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1811–1889), German diplomat and writer
- Eugen von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1815–1898), German judge and President of the Higher Regional Court in Oldenburg
- Edmund Ernst Carl Maria von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1817–1900), staff officer in the Oldenburg Infantry
- Wilhelm von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1848–1884), judge and politician, member of the Reichstag
- Olivier von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1898–1918), German fighter pilot
- Adolf Wilhelm von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1868–1943), German major general
- Olivier Karl von Beaulieu-Marconnay (1863–1945), German major general
literature
- Beaulieu-Marconnay. in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Volume 2, Leipzig 1875, pp. 191–194.
- A. de Basseroche: About the origin and the coat of arms of the von Beaulieu-Marconnay. in: magazine Der Deutsche Herold. Vol. 14, Berlin 1883, pp. 84-87.
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1921. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1921.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume 1, Adelslexikon , p. 378. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year, 1859 p.25ff , 1867 p30ff
- Heinz Frerichs, descendants of the Huguenots from Poitou in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg: The Beaulieu-Marconnay family , Oldenburg 2016