See also:PIERRE See also:HOZIER
D', SEIGNEUR DE LA GARDE (1592-1660), See also:French genealogist, was See also:born at See also:Marseilles on the loth of See also:Jury 1592
.
In 1616 he entered upon some very extensive researches into the See also:genealogy of the See also:noble families of the See also:kingdom, in which See also:work he was aided by his prodigious memory for See also:dates, names and See also:family relationships, as well as by his profound knowledge of See also:heraldry
.
In 1634 he was appointed historiographer and genealogist of See also:France, and in 1641 See also:juge d'armes of France, an officer corresponding nearly to the Garter See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king-of-arms in See also:England
.
In 1643 he was employed to verify the claims to See also:nobility of the pages and equerries of the king's See also:household
.
He accumulated a large number of documents, but published comparatively little, his See also:principal See also:works being Recueil armorial See also:des anciennes maisons de Bretagne (1638); See also:Les noms, surnoms, qualitez, armes et blasons des chevaliers ct officiers de l'ordre du See also:Saint-Esprit (1634); and the genealogies of the houses of La Rochefoucauld (1654), Bournonville (1657) and Amanze (16J9)
.
He was renowned as much for his uprightness as for his knowledge, no slight praise in a profession exposed to so many temptations to See also:fraud
.
He died in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:December 166o
.
At his See also:death his collections comprised more than 150 volumes or portfolios of documents and papers See also:relating to the genealogy of the principal families in France
.
Of his six sons, only two survived him
.
His eldest son, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Roger d'See also:Hozier (1634–1708), succeeded him as juge d'armes, but became See also:blind in 1675, and was obliged to surrender his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office to his See also:brother
.
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