Père Anselme

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Pierre de Guibours (as a layperson) or Père Anselme de la Vierge Marie (as a monk) (* 1625 in Paris , † January 17, 1694 ibid) was a French historian , genealogist and heraldist .

Life

Pierre de Guibours entered the order of the barefoot Augustinians on March 31, 1644 , where he devoted his entire life to genealogy. His works are:

  • Le Palais de l'honneur (1663), which - in addition to the genealogy of the ruling houses of Lorraine and Savoy - contains a complete treatise on heraldry .
  • Le Palais de la gloire (1644) on the genealogy of a number of French, but also non-French families.
  • Science héraldique (1674).

His most important work, however, is the Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne (1674, 2 volumes), a genealogy of the French royal family and its most important officials; this work was written on the suggestion of his friend Honoré Caille, Seigneur du Fourny, who in 1712 after Père Anselme's death had a new edition.

Père Anselme lived and died in the Augustinian monastery Couvent des Petits Pères near the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires basilica . His work was taken up and continued by two monks of the Couvent, François Baffard (Père Ange de Sainte-Rosalie) and Paul Lucas (Père Simplicien), who published their first two volumes of a third edition in 1726. This edition later grew to nine folio volumes.

de Guibours published exclusively under his religious name Père Anselme. He and those who worked on his works generally carried out their work on the basis of original documents and referenced them so precisely that it is still of value today.

literature

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911

Web links

Père Anselme, Histoire de la maison royale de France et des grands officiers de la Couronne: dressée sur plusieurs chartes d'églises, titres, registres, & mémoriaux de la chambre des comptes de Paris, histoires, chroniques & autres preuves, par le RP Ansèlme (1674)

Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des anciens barons du royaume ...., par le P. Anselme, ...; continuée par M. Du Fourny, 3rd edition (1726–1733)

personal data
SURNAME Anselme, Père
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guibours, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian, genealogist and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1694
Place of death Paris