The House of Estampes is a surviving family of the French nobility, originally from Berry, which distinguished itself through significant political, military and ecclesiastical positions.[1] The best known figure today family is Jacques d'Étampes, Marquis of la Ferté-Imbault (1590–1668), Marshal of France in 1651.[2]
History
This family is originally from Berry and has no connection with the ancient lords of the town of Étampes in Hurepoix .
The family lineage goes back to Jean de Bas, known as d'Estampes, keeper of the gold and silver jewels of Jean de France, Duke of Berry, in the second half of the 14th century, who married to Guillemette Duplessis. His son, Robert I d'Estampes, Lord of Salbris, captain of the Grosse Tour de Bourges, married to Jacqueline Rolland, daughter of a doctor of the Duke of Berry, was ennobled by letters patent of 4 December 1392. Three of his children were, respectively, Bishop of Carcassonne, Nevers and Montauban in the middle of the 15th century.[2]
Marie d'Estampes de Valençay (1631–1697) m. (1) 1648: Philippe II de Béthune, Count of Selles (1630–1658), (2) 1664: Jean-Baptiste de Goth, Marquis of Rouillac (1631–1690)
Anne-Elisabeth d'Estampes de Valençay (1635–1679)
Charlotte d'Estampes de Valençay (1597–1677) m. 1615: Pierre Brûlart de Sillery, Marquis of Sillery (1583–1640)
Marquis of Autry, Bellebrune, Estampes, La Ferté-Imbault de Mauny and Valençay (courtesy title).[2]
Count of Estampes and Valençay (courtesy title).[2]
Baron of Ardreloup, La Ferté-Imbault and Theillay[2]
Lord of Autry, of La Ferté-Imbault, of La Ferté-Nabert, of La Motte-de-ennortres, of Mauny, of Méans, of Roches, of Salbris, of Soesme, of Valençay.[2]
Coats of arms
Azure, two gold girons, placed in a chevron, with a chief argent charged with three crowns gules.[2]
Alliances
This family allied itself with the families: de Beauvilliers (1438), de Sains (1499), Le Rotier (1525), de Régnier (1534, 1674), de Gauville (1548), du Plessis (1557), de Hautemer (1579), du Faur de Pibrac (1598), de Choiseul-Praslin (1610), Brûlart de Sillery (1641), de Fiennes (1700), Dirckse van Augeren (1708), du Plessis-Châtillon (1709), Geoffrin (1733), de Becdelièvre (1734), Le Conte de Nonant (1748), de Fouilleuse (1755), Joly de Fleury (1762), de Bourdeilles (1773), Le Vicomte de Blangy (1784), Camus (1785), Rouillé du Coudray (1787), The Duke of Lillers (1789), of Coriolis (1800), Bour (1803), Huchet de La Bédoyère (1809), of Cholier de Cibeins (1817), of Sainte-Marie d'Agneaux (1820, 1852), Trelawny (1822), of Thiard (1824), of Veau de Robiac (1855), Achard de Bonvouloir (1861), Durand de Beauregard (1862), of Vassinhac d'Imécourt (1878), of Labriffe (1881), of Agoult (1891), of Pins (1896), of Goujault (1898), of Reviers de Mauny (1902), of Nompère de Champagny de Cadore (1923), Jégou du Laz (1926), by Durfort-Civrac de Lorge (1929), by Bruce (1931), Jouan de Kervenoaël (1931), by La Taille-Tretinville (1943), du Clos, de Fontenay, de Galard, Levaud, de Percy, Odart, Roland, Toustain.
^ abcdefghijklmSainte-Marie, Anselme de (1879). "Généalogie de la Maison d'Estampes". Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France,... (in French). Firmin Didot frères, fils et Cie. pp. 564–566. Retrieved 18 October 2024.