Prez (noble family)

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The von Prez knightly family named themselves after the village of Prez-vers-Noréaz in today's canton of Friborg . The first tangible representative of the family was Cono, who was subprior in the Cistercian monastery Hauterive Cellerar and from around 1160 to around 1180 .

A Junker Heinrich von Prez married his daughter Isabella to Baron Heinrich III. the younger from Grünenberg . Isabella is documented for the years 1273 to 1279. She inherited property and rights in the Prez-vers-Noréaz area from her uncle, the knight Haimo von Prez. Several generations later lived the knight Richard von Prez, who owned a tithe in Corcelles-le-Jorat and in 1345 went on the crusade against Smyrna by Humbert II de la Tour-du-Pin , the last Dauphin of Viennois . At the turn of the 15th century, the brothers Guy and Aymon von Prez lived, to whom the subsequent generation of three sons cannot be clearly assigned. Guy was Lord of Corcelles and married to Henriette de Métral, who came from Lutry . Aymon was co-lord of Bellegarde ( German : Jaun) and held the office of episcopal bailiff of Lausanne from 1400 to 1405, which was exercised by his nephew or son Nicod von Prez from 1418 to 1422. Antoine, a brother of Nicod, was Bishop of Aosta from 1444 to 1464 , the other brother, Guy, was a Junker of Lutry. Also Bishop of Aosta was Guy's son François von Prez from 1464 to 1511, i.e. in the direct successor of his uncle Antoine.

Another representative of the Prez family by the name of François was involved in a conspiracy of his brother-in-law Isbrand Daux, which is why his share of the Corcelles reign was confiscated. He then settled in Savoy in 1588. In his successor, the family branch held part of the Crassier rule in France until the French Revolution .

Families named Deprez still exist in Lutry today.

literature

  • August Plüss: The barons of Grünenberg in Kleinburgund . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate submitted to the high philosophical faculty of the University of Bern. In: Archives of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern . Volume XVI, Issue 1. Stämpfli, Bern 1900 ( digitized from E-Periodica.ch [accessed on October 20, 2015]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Tremp: Prez, Cono von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Plüss 1900: p. 81.