Bellegarde (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Counts of Bellegarde

The family of today's Counts of Bellegarde comes from the Savoyard nobility .

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1263; With the noble (Noble) Pierre Noyel de Bellegarde the uninterrupted line of tribe begins in 1388.

The family spread over Europe over time: On September 13, 1540, François de Bellegarde , captain and governor of Nice , Mr. (Seigneur) de Mons and Marquis d'Antremont (possessions in the Spanish Netherlands , today's Belgium) received an improvement in the coat of arms .

On June 14, 1682, Janus de Bellegarde , Minister of State and Grand Chancellor of Savoy , was made Marchese des Marches by Duke Viktor Amadeus of Savoy .

Velké Heraltice Castle

Johann Franz de Bellegarde, electoral Saxon general and minister of war, received the incolate in Bohemia as Count von Bellegarde on September 13, 1741 . Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde (1757-1845), Austrian field marshal and viceroy of Lombardy-Veneto, was accepted into the Lower Austrian gentry on October 17, 1825, and on July 22, 1831, was granted Hungarian indignity. The family had their own seat in Vienna, the Palais Bellegarde .

From 1899 until the expropriation in 1945, the castle and the associated goods in Velké Heraltice (Groß Herlitz in Moravian-Silesia) were owned by the Counts Bellegarde.

Coat of arms of the Counts of Bellegarde 1741

Coat of arms (1682)

In blue under a golden shield head with a black double-headed eagle, a golden arc of flames emerging from the dividing line with 5 flames arranged in an arc shape under the same. On the helmet with blue and gold covers a silver dove soaring, holding a branch with leaves in its beak (or a golden eagle growing).

Well-known namesake

• Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde (1730–1813), French aristocrat and adored Rousseau
• Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde (1756–1845), Austrian field marshal and viceroy of Lombardy-Veneto
• Pauline von Bellegarde (1830–1912), Chief Chamberlain of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary
• Franz Graf von Bellegarde (1912–1941), German officer and holder of the Knight's Cross

Web links

Commons : House of Bellegarde  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Source: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon, Volume I, pages 294/5, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1972