Belletruche (noble family)

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The de Belletruche family (also Belles-Truches, Belle Struches) was from Chambery derived Savoyard noble family. The sex is extinct.

The family was wealthy in Beaufort and Vevey . In Vevey, the Belletruche owned a fiefdom with a castle named after them, as well as a permanent house on the lake in Vevey (later: Maison des trois couronnes ), also named after the family .

people

  • Antoine de Belletruche, Vogt of Vaud, co-lord of Vevey
  • Pierre de Belletruche, Vice-Governor of Nice

literature

  • Eugène de Mellet: Le bailliage de Vevey et Chillon du XIVme au XVIIme siècle. Avec armorial tel qu'il était en 1660 , Vevey 1861–1862., P. 20.
  • Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. 2, Neuchâtel 1934, p. 24.

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