Gentil de Lavallade
Gentil de Lavallade is the name of a noble family from the county of Périgord , which since 1890 has also belonged to the German nobility as "von Gentil de Lavallade".
history
The lineage of the family begins at the end of the 15th century with Jehan Gentils († 1537), governor ( Viguer ) of St. Yrieix in the province of Limousin .
In December 1515 his grandson, Hélie Gentils, Seigneur de la Jonchapt, du Mas received the French title of nobility in Lyon . The Prussian recognition of the right to use the name "von Gentil de Lavallade" was granted to the royal Prussian major Gottfried Karl Wilhelm Feodor Gentil von Lavallade through a certificate from the royal heraldry of March 23, 1890. The entry in the Saxon nobility book was made on November 12, 1903.
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1515 shows a golden rafter in blue, accompanied by three (2: 1) golden Katharinenwheels , in front of the whole thing a raised, shiny sword. On the crowned helmet with blue and gold covers three (gold, blue, gold) ostrich feathers, in front of the middle one an erect, bare sword.
people
- François de Gentil de Lavallade (1760–1813), Imperial French general manager
- Wilhelm François Deocar Gentil von Lavallade (1812–1883) Court actor and director of the Royal Theater in Berlin
- Hulda von Lavallade (1818–1868), German theater actress, wife of the aforementioned
literature
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1907 (older genealogy) and 1913 ( trunk series ).
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Volume 17, Limburg / Lahn 1958.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, p. 74, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN 0435-2408
- Eberhard von Gentil de Lavallade, family tree of the family v. Gentil de Lavallade , Danzig, 1911.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Lavallade, F. v. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1860, part 1, p. 278. “Royal Court Actor” (other family members).