Fouqué (noble family)

Fouqué (de la Motte Fouqué) is the name of a noble family of Normandy who descended from Norway .

history

The family first appears in a document in 1267 with Guillaume or Wilhelm de la Motte Fouqué. Charles de la Motte Fouqué (1625–1701) left France for religious reasons. The sex was resident in the Mark Brandenburg .

The seafarers who came from Scandinavia settled in Normandy since the end of the 9th century, to which they gave their name. One of the first, a Falko , was also the giver of the name Fouqué. Older French documents write the name Foulque .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a horizontal gold bar in blue and a gold ball underneath. The old French baron beret stands above the coat of arms .

Name bearer

• Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1698–1774), Prussian general
• Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué (1701 – after 1775), Prussian colonel
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), one of the first German romantic poets
• Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué (1843–1921), son of the poet and Prussian general
• Caroline de la Motte Fouqué (1773–1831), German romantic writer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ v. Zedlitz-Neukirch, New Prussian Adels Lexicon, Second Volume, Leipzig 1836, p. 182
2. ↑ v. Zedlitz-Neukirch, New Prussian Adels Lexicon, Second Volume, Leipzig 1836, p. 182
3. ↑ Hist. Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.), Neue Deutsche Biografie, Volume 18, Berlin 1998, p. 227
4. ↑ v. Hefner, Siebmacher's great and general book of arms, third volume, Nuremberg 1857, p. 130
5. ^ Keil, The noble family de la Motte Fouqué. In: Huguenots, Volume 71, No. 1/2007, p. 5

literature

• Zedlitz-Neukirch, New Prussian Adels Lexicon, Second Volume, Leipzig 1836, p. 182 ff.