Préaux (noble family)

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Préaux (also Preaux and Preaulx ) is a French-Norman aristocratic family that was first mentioned at the beginning of the 10th century and died out in 1971.

912-1066

The ancestor of the Préaux is the Norman Bernard le Danois, who was baptized in Rouen in 912 - together with his relative Rollo , the ancestor of the Norman dynasty of the Rollonids . Bernard's descendant, Jean de Preaux, was among the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror in the conquest of England in 1066 .

1190-1204

  1. Osbert de Préaux († before 1189), seigneur de Préaux, seigneur de Darnétal
    1. Jean, seigneur de Préaux, seigneur de Darnétal
    2. Pierre de Préaux († probably 1212), 1190–92 crusade, Bailli of the Channel Islands, 1203 Lord of the Channel Islands, 1203 military commander of Rouen, handed the city over to the French in 1204; ⚭ Mary de Redvers, daughter of William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon ( House Redvers )
    3. Guillaume de Préaux, 1190–92 Crusade, Bailli of Oximin
    4. Enguerrand de Préaux

Touraine

After the Battle of Bouvines (1214) Guillaume-Raoul de Preaux was rewarded with the town of Saint-Christophe in Touraine , which was then renamed Préaux after his master . The branch of the family resident here formed important family alliances, especially with the Bourbon-Préaux , Harcourt , La Rochefoucauld , Aligre , Dampierre, etc. families .

Pierre de Preaux, husband of Blanche Crépin de Dangu et de Thury , married his heir Marguerite around 1385 to Jacques de Bourbon (* probably 1346; † 1417), Baron d'Argies , the youngest son of Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche . Through this marriage Préaux, Dangu and Thury came to the Bourbons . The short-lived Bourbon-Préaux line emerged, but it died out again in 1442, as a result of which the ownership fell back to Yolande de Préaux, a sister of Marguerite.

The best-known member of this branch of the family is Gilbert de Preaulx, first Marquis de Preaulx, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Holy Spirit , and advisor to the King. The 11th and last Marquis of Préaulx, Amaury, died in 1971.

Maine

With the marriage between Claude de Préaux and Jacqueline de Dampierre, daughter of Gilles de Dampierre and Suzanne de Charnières, dame de Quelaines , the family established itself in the county of Maine in 1619 . Her daughter was Jacqueline de Preaux, fille d'honneur of Queen Anne d'Autriche , who was married in 1641 to the genealogist René de Quatrebarbes , marquis de la Rongère . Quatrebarbes dedicated one of his works to his brother-in-law Jean-Claude de Preaux.

The estates of Lancheneil , Montchevrier , Nuillé-sur-Vicoin etc. went to Joseph de Préaux, son of Jean-Claude and Barbe-Françoise de la Haie de Coulonce, due to his marriage to Marie-Henriette de Meaulne (1719). He was the adjutant of Marshal von Schomberg.

Belong to the family :

1. Gilbert, 1. Marquis de Preaulx, adviser to Louis XIII. ; ⚭ 1588 Charlotte de Lavardin, sister-in-law of Gilles de Souvré, Marshal of France

2nd Claude, 2nd Marquis de Preaulx, 1626 governor of Argentan  ; ⚭ 1619 Jacqueline de Dampierre, daughter of Gilles de Dampierre and Suzanne de Charnières, Dame de Quelaines . Her daughter Jacqueline († 1656) married René de Quatrebarbes († after 1662) in 1641

3. Jean-Claude, 3rd Marquis de Preaulx (* 1626, † 1685); ⚭ Barbe-Françoise de La Haye-Coulances

4. Joseph, 4. Marquis de Preaulx, their son, Seigneur de Nuillé-sur-Vicoin , Lancheneil, Montchevrier , Quelaines, etc.; ⚭ 1719 Marie-Henriette de Meaulne, heir daughter of de Henri de Meaulne, Marquis de Lancheneil

5. Alexandre-René de Preaulx, his brother, priest

6. Joseph-François de Paule, Marquis de Preaulx, son of Joseph de Préaulx, ⚭ 1755 Catherine-Jeanne du Tertre de Sancé

7. Joseph-Marthe-René-Gilbert, 7. Marquis de Preaulx (* 1787, † 1849), great-nephew of Joseph de Preaulx, Mayor of Pouancé , writer; ⚭ 1810 Catherine Rouillé de Boissy

8. Antoine, Viscount de Preaulx († 1868), his brother, Mayor of Nuillé-sur-Vicoin

9. Raoul, Comte de Preaulx (* 1880, X 1914)

10. Carl, Comte de Preaulx (* 1885, † 1920), his brother

11. René, Comte de Preaulx (* 1889, † 1934), his brother

12. Geneviève de Preaulx (* 1895), her sister

literature

  • Famille de Preaulx , in: Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne, Goupil, 1900–1910
  • François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire généalogique, héraldique, chronologique et historique, contenant l'origine et l'état actuel des premières maisons de France, des maisons souveraines et principales de l'Europe; les noms des provinces, villes, terres,… érigées en principautés, duchés, marquisats, comtés, vicomtés et baronneries; les maisons éteintes qui les ont possédées, celles qui par héritage, alliance ou achat ou donation du souverain les possèdent aujourd'hui, les familles nobles du royaume et les noms et les armes dont les généalogies n'ont pas été publiés par. MDLCDB (1757 par. MDLCDB) ) Volume 16, column 320ff
  • M. de Courcelles, Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse française , (1821) Volume 4, p. 85
  • De Faria, Généalogie de la famille de Preaux ou de Preaulx (1909)
  • Frédéric Saisset, Histoire de la famille de Preaulx ou de Preaux (1935).
  • Nicolas Louis Achaintre, "Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon", (1825)

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