Bouget
The Bouget family originally came from France. Jacques de Bouget served as the Spanish captain of the Habsburgs and settled in the free imperial city of Aachen after his discharge from military service . In addition to several houses in Aachen (four on Komphausbadstrasse alone), the family also owned the estate and stately home at Seffent in Laurensberg. In that of the go. Justizrath Häberlin zu Helmstedt in 1802 published state archive (33rd to 36th issue) can be read about the Odenkirchen line of the Bouget family: "The community of Odenkirchen is famous for its Siamoise and silk factories, which were founded by the Bouget family twenty years ago were built there; these facilities employ many workers ".
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The name appears in very different spellings such as Bougey, Bougé, Bougee, Bougi, Bougis , Bougie , Bougy or Bongé in Belgium , Germany , France , Great Britain and Canada .
Special personalities from the Bouget family
- Jacques de Bouget († 1684), captain and citizen captain of Aachen , owner of the free, noble castle Neuhemsbach with the associated meadows, ponds, villages, forests, high and low justice, civil and criminal justice etc. and the ancients Redoute Aachen in Komphausbadstrasse.
- Henri Francis Comte de Bouget (1684–1743), Councilor of the Electorate of Cologne and rentmaster of the Teutonic Order Commandery S. Gilles in Aachen, hosted Frederick II in 1742 during his bathing stay in Aachen
- Klemens August Bernhard von Bouget (1731–1779), Court Chamber Councilor of Cologne, Vogt and waiter in Odenkirchen, founder of the first textile factory in Odenkirchen and tenant of Haus Zoppenbroich
- Maria Magdalena Therese de Bouget (1733–1796), married on July 29, 1750 the English admiral Sir Charles Knowles and was the mother of Sir Charles Henry Knowles
- Maria Christine Josefine de Bouget (1734–1775), known as "la belle Stinette", was the long-time lover of Liège Prince-Bishop Franz Karl von Velbrück and the mother of his two sons
- Karl Friedrich Maria de Bouget (1739), Canon of the Collegiate Church of Saint Martin in Liège
- Nikolaus Josef Damian de Bouget (1741–1791), Canon to S. Dionysius in Liège
- Baron Ferdinand Franz Maria Bouget (1741–1818), kuk Major General, Commander of the Nassau Cuirassier Regiment
- Johannes Jakobus Bouget (1762–1810), politician, real secret Kurkölnischer Hofrat, president of the administration and deputy of the legislative body of the Roerdepartement
- Anna Katharina Josepha Karoline von Bouget (1764–1812) married Baron Bernhard Franz Josef von Gerolt , a secret Kurköln. Councilor and Lord at Burg zur Leyen (today: Burg Ockenfels ). Her son, Baron Friedrich Joseph Karl von Gerolt (1797–1879), was the longest serving German ambassador in Washington and in 1858 was promoted to the status of a Prussian baron
- Benedicta Maria Christina Josepha von Bouget (1767) married the lawyer and last Vogt of Odenkirchen Christian Joseph Aldenhofen from Zons on July 3, 1793. The wedding was performed by his uncle Anselmus von Aldenhofen , the last abbot of the Brauweiler monastery, in his house chapel in Brauweiler. In 1803 she bought Odenkirchen Castle and all of its lands