Jeanneret de Beaufort
The Jeanneret de Beaufort or Beaufort family is an old, old nobility and baron line originally from Italy and France , who later came to Switzerland and the Netherlands .
The ancestor is Pierre Charles Jeanneret de Beaufort († 1268). A descendant of the same Josua de Beaufort left northern Italy during the riots in the 15th century . He went to France and acquired important estates in the Dauphiné . A Reformed branch of the family left France after the edict of Nantes was repealed in 1681 and came to Neufchâtel . On August 1, 1695 Joanes Jeaneret was ennobled by the Duchess of Nemours and on September 18, 1696 entered as a nobleman in the nobility register of the Principality of Neuchatel. Since that time, several members of the family also came into Prussian service. On August 5, 1791, the Prussian recognition of the nobility in Prussia took place for the brothers Charles David Jeanneret de Dunilac , Francois Scipion de Jeanneret (1746-1819) and Jean Louis de Jeanneret le Blanc (1744-1798).
coat of arms
On the shield is a white castle with three towers. On the middle tower there is a lance with a golden flag and a golden arrow protrudes from each of the side towers. Above the shield there is a French baron's crown (a smooth golden ring wound three times with a string of pearls).
Shield holder : two wild men , wearing a green wreath around their head and hips and holding a golden staff ending in a lily in their outer hand.
Relatives
- Baron Denis-Francois-Scipion Jeanneret de Beaufort (born September 12, 1746 - April 18, 1819), envoy at the Danish court, later governor of the military academy in Berlin (1785–1803)
- Baron François Louis (Franz Ludwig) Jeanneret von Beaufort (born June 28, 1776 - December 30, 1853), Prussian colonel, commandant of Cosel
- Baron Hermann von Jeanneret von Beaufort-Belfort, (* November 28, 1806, † January 14, 1873) Higher Regional Court trainee and landowner in Gabitz near Breslau
- Ferdinand Wilhelm von Jeanneret (1764–1828), Prussian major general, Swiss
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Nobility Lexicon , Volume 1, p.244
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, S.188f
- Archive for German aristocratic history, genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics, p.306
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1872 p.26ff 1873 p.25ff
- De Navorscher: Een middel tot gedachtenwisseling en letterkundig verkeer tuschen to all who weten, iets te v credit lift of iets kunnen oplossen, 1880, p. 372f, index
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adelslexicon, Volume 3, S.29 writes Dionysios Franzius Scipio de Jeanneret but means Ferdinand Wilhelm von Jeanneret