Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly
Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly (born June 5, 1761 in Sarreguemines , Département Bas-Rhin , Kingdom of the French; † February 11, 1837 ) was a French ministerial official at the Royal French Foreign Ministry under Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes (1784–1789) , Officer, participant in the First and Fourth Coalition War and the Peace of Tilsit, councilor and representative of the city of Strasbourg, Conseilleur Géneral in the Conseil Géneral of the Department of Bas-Rhin (1811–1833) as well as knight and officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor and Knight of the Order Royale et Militaire de Saint-Louis (1815) and 1st Chévalier Chastelain-Déverly et d'Empire Français in the French nobility of the First Empire .
Life
Chastelain de Verly was born in 1761 in Sarreguemines in the Duchy of Bar as the son of Jean Alexandre Chastelain de Verly (1733-1792). He studied law and history at the University of Strasbourg (dissertation 1782: De Tutela Gallis Regnum ).
Royal French Foreign Ministry (1786–1788)
On April 1, 1786, after the intercession of his uncle Abbé Henri Louis Chastelain de Courcelles, Chastelain entered the royal French Foreign Ministry under the direction of Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, and worked there for the Pyrenees Commission to draw the line of demarcation between the Kingdom of France and Navarre with the Kingdom of Spain until 1788. He also served until February 18, 1790 as Adjutant (Aide de Camp) Ludovico Antonio Ornanos.
1791 to 1794
Due to the events of the revolution, Chastelain de Verly initially lost his position and remained in Strasbourg. In 1791 he joined the French National Guard as an officer until he was appointed War Commissioner of Montauban and Phalsbourg and War Commissioner of the French Army on the Rhine on February 1, 1792 , where he took part in the warfare of the First Coalition War from 1792–1793 (including the canonade of Valmy).
1794 to 1807
After serving as war commissioner in Nancy and Metz , he was reinstated on April 30, 1794 as Comissaire des Guerres of the garrisons in Phalsbourg. Chastelain de Verly took part in the campaign of 1807 during the Fourth Coalition War and was present at the peace treaty of Tilsit. He returned to Phalsbourg in 1808 as Comissaire Ordonnateur des Guerres.
Title of nobility of the First Empire 1808
Napoléon Bonaparte raised him on December 21, 1808 during his stay in Madrid during the Iberian Wars to the 1st "Chévalier CHASTELAIN-DEVERLY et d'Empire Français" in the French nobility of the 1st Empire, as "Chévalier-légionnaire" (knight-legionnaire ) with the corresponding coat of arms: three quarters of the coat of arms shield on an azure blue background, on it three silver stars, in the middle a silver dove with a branch of peace rising, the lower coat of arms quarter red with the prescribed image of the medal of a knight (chévalier) of the French Legion of Honor, in Compliance with the provisions and executions of the Napoleonic nobility decree of March 1, 1808 (Décret concernant les Titres / Décret du 2 messidor an XII). This title became hereditary in the male line of the Chastelain family.
In his function as councilor (Conseilleur Municipal) in the city council of Strasbourg, he was appointed delegate representative of the "Bonne Ville Imperiale" of Strasbourg at the baptism of the son of Napoléon and the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria and took part in 1811 in the Invalides in Paris part.
1814 to 1816
On November 30, 1811 he was appointed Comissaire-Ordonnateur des Guerres of the 5th Military Division of Strasbourg and remained in this position until May 1, 1814. He was appointed by King Louis XVIII. from active service in the reserve and honorably retired on April 7, 1816 from the active army.
Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly held the mandate of the Conseilleur Géneral in the Conseil Géneral of the department of Bas-Rhin from 1811 to 1833. He was also the secretaire of the Mouvement General Kléber . In his capacity as a Freemason , he co-founded the Masonic Lodge La Concorde in Strasbourg in 1804 , where he held the office of Secretaire. From 1812 he was the elder and superintendent of the Le Candeur lodge in Strasbourg.
Joseph Fabry Palace
As early as 1802, Chastelain de Verly acquired the city palace from the Strasbourg entrepreneur Joseph Fabry, which had a U-shape around an inner courtyard and was worth 40,000 francs in gold. Chastelain there with his family until his death in 1837.
Family and offspring
Chastelain de Verly was married to Anne Marie Catherine Humbourg (1761-1815) in their first marriage from 1792 to 1815. In his second marriage, closed in 1818, he was married to Marie Françoise Eugénie Lajonquiére (1798–1878). Through his son, Désire François Alexandre Chastelain (de Verly) (* May 11, 1795 - April 11, 1865), Chastelain has living descendants in the French, Belgian and Luxembourg nobility, as well as through the marriage of his only daughter from second marriage, Eugénie Auguste Chastelain de Verly with Alphonse Charles Henri Chuquet (de Montigny), (* Groningen, 1812- + Wanzenau, 1899) in Germany (see also Curt Wahl ).
Pedigree
| Pedigree of Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly, chévalier Chastelain-Deverly et d'Empire Français | ||||||||
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| Great-great-grandparents |
Jean Chastelain, merchant at Rochefort ("marchand a Rochefort") (+ Saint-Michel, December 15, 1676) ∞ Antoinette Chrétien († 1706) |
écuyer François de Meaux (1635–1694) ∞ approx. 1658> Nicole Petit (approx. 1637–1721) |
> Pierre Malherbe (approx. 1640–1681) ∞ Louise Mercier (approx. 1640–1685) |
> Jacques Bernard (approx. 1630–1704) ∞> Reine Verzeau (approx. 1640–1694 ) |
Jacques Hourdel (approx. 1627–1694–1893) ∞ Jeanne Barbey (approx. 1630-?) |
> René Pancher (? -?) ∞ Marguerite Richer (? -?) |
> Jacques Pavy (approx. 1627–1697) ∞ Catherine Rénard (approx. 1634–1701) |
> Jean Bauscher (? -?) ∞ Louise N. (? -?) |
| Great grandparents | Jean Chastelain, merchant to Hirson ("marchand à Hirson") (* 1648-Hirson / Ardennes, 4.03.1707) ∞ Hirson / Ardennes, November 7th, 1679 |
François Malherbe, Bourgeois de Vervins. Marguiller de la confrérie du Très Saint Sacrement à Vervins (Charleville Méziers, 31.05.1668-1716) ∞ Vervins / Aisne, 08.06.1687 Reine Bernard (Vervins / Aisne, 1668 – Vervins / Aisne, 16.01.1711) |
Jean Hourdel, Notaire à Bernay († 1725) ∞ Bernay, 27.09.1686 Marguerite Pancher (approx. 1660–?) |
Nicolas Pavy, sieur du Pivron , merchant ("marchand"), (1655–?) ∞ Marie Beuscher (approx. 1655-?) |
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| Grandparents |
ecuyer Louis Antoine Chastelain, Bailli de Signy le Petit, avocat en parlement, subdélégué de monsieur l'Intendant de Soissons, licencié en droit á la Faculté de Reims (* Hirson / Ardennes, 15.07.1695 – Hirson / Ardennes, 28.12.1757) ∞ Vervins, October 26th , 1716 Géneviève Malherbe (Vervins, June 5th, 1696 – Hirson, April 8th, 1765) |
écuyer Jean Baptiste Hourdel du Verget, ' Notaire royal et avocat en parlement' (* Bernay, 16.07.1689-Fyé / Sarthe, 27.08.1745) ∞ Fyé / Sarthe, 17.05.1718 demoiselle Marie Pavy (1899–1980) |
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| parents | Jean Alexandre Chastelain de Verly (Hirson / Ardennes, 1733 – Sarreguemines, 1792) ∞ Monastery-Convent of Saint Vincent du Mans (Couvent de Saint Vincent du Mans), Saint Calais, June 30, 1760 demoiselle Marie Jeanne Catherine Hourdel du Verget (* Fyé, Sarte August 15, 1724 – Sarreguemines, April 4, 1802) |
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| Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly, 1 chévalier CHASTELAIN DEVERLY et d'Empire Français, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, chévalier du Ordre Rouale et Militaire de Saint-Louis (* Sarreguemines, 1761-Strasbourg, February 11, 1837) / > ∞ (1) Saverne, February 28, 1792 Anne Marie Catherine Humbourg (* Saverne, December 26, 1761 – Strasbourg, June 7, 1815) /> ∞ (2) Strasbourg, May 13, 1818 Marie Françoise Eugénie Lajonquière (* Strasbourg , March 24, 1798– Wanzenau, Strasbourg-Land district, Alsace-Lorraine annexed in 1871 in the German Empire, January 13, 1878) |
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Awards, honors and titles
- Knight of the Legion of Honor (1804)
- Officer of the Legion of Honor (1811)
- Knight of the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis (1815)
- Knight of the First Empire (France) (1808)
literature
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The way to the Terreur: radicalization and conflicts in the Strasburg Jacobin Club (1790-1795) . Paris Historical Studies, published by the German Historical Institute Paris, 2002.
- New edition: Oldenburg, Walter de Gruyter GmbH (author: Daniel Schönpflug), there: Appendix, p. 270 ("List of members of the Club of Friends of the Constitution")
- Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy . Cambridge University Press, December 11, 2003 (Chastelain, Alexandre, p. 169).
- Alain Chappet, Roger Martin, André Palluel-Guillard: Le Guide Napoléon 4000 lieux de mémoire revivre l'epopée . Editions Tallandier, 2005
- Louis Bergeron, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret Grands Notables du Premier Empire: notices de Biographie sociale . Volumes 1–3, Center national de la recherche scientifique, 1978
- Alain Moreau, Germaine Payron -Montagnon, Alain Pigéard: Grands Notables du Prémier Empire: notices de Biographie Sociale, éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique . 1978
- La Révolucion Française . Volumes 15-16, La Sociétée 1888
- État Militaire de France pour l'an 1793 Au siège de la Société, 1903
- Émile Campardon: List of the membres de la noblesse impériale: fressée d'aprés les registres de patentes conservés aux Archives Nationales, au siége de la Société . 1889
- Joseph Alcide Géorgel: Armorial historique et généalogique des familles de Lorraine titrées ou confirmées dans leurs titres au XIXe siècle renfermant les titres impériaux et royaux, les pairs héréditaires, les majorats ainsi que administr les généraux, les préfetsu et qui commandèques province . 1882 - since: p. 167: CHASTELAIN-DEVERLY, chévalier d'Empire le 21.12.1808
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre Chastelain de Verly in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ DNB, catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on September 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Titres et armoires du Prémier Empire (1808–1815), Archives Nationales, Pierrefitte sur Seine, BB / 29970 p. 282. Titre de chévalier, acordé a Jean, Louis, Antoine, Alexandre Chastelain, à la suite du décret du 2 messidor to XII, le nommant membre de la Légion d'Honneur
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chastelain de Verly, Jean Louis Antoine Alexandre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer and ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarreguemines |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1837 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |