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unusual facts about Sieur



Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant

Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594 – December 29, 1661), French poet, was born near Rouen.

Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus

A French diplomat in Edinburgh, Camille de Preau, sieur de Courcelles, heard that Angus claimed she had flirted with a stableboy, which was thought unlikely, and the Earl of Bothwell had joked he would divorce his wife for the same.

Duguay-Trouin

René Duguay-Trouin: René Trouin, Sieur du Gué (10 June 1673 -- 1736), French privateer, admiral and Commander in the Order of Saint Louis

Francis IV of Beauharnais

Francis IV of Beauharnais (1630 in Orléans – 1681 in Orléans), squire, sieur of la Grillère (at Vouzon, Loir-et-Cher) and sieur de la Boische, was a French nobleman.

History of geomagnetism

Sieur de Castelfranc, published a rival theory of the Earth's field in his book Mecometrie de l'eymant (Measurement of longitude with a magnet).

Island of Montreal

The first French name for the island was "l'ille de Vilmenon", noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.

Jean de Poltrot

Jean de Poltrot (c. 1537-1563), sieur de Méré or Mérey, was a nobleman of Angoumois, who murdered Francis, Duke of Guise.

Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre

He was son of Pierre Chabanceau de La Barre (1592–1656) organist of the chapelle royale at Notre-Dame, sieur of La Barre, and younger brother of Charles-Henry Chabanceau de La Barre (1625-?), player of the spinet to the queen, and Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688), a noted soprano.

Juan Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda

Juan Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda, (circa 1522 – Elda, province of Alicante, Spain, 19 October 1586), 3rd Sieur of Elda, Governor of Alicante Castle, Count of Elda, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1570-1577.

Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

His mother, Marie Thérèse Giffard de Beauport, was the daughter of Robert Giffard de Moncel, Sieur de Moncel à Autheuil, and the 1st Seigneur of Beauport, Quebec.

Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal

Mlle de Launay lived there until 1710 in the enjoyment of the utmost consideration, and held a little court of her own, which included Brunel, the friend of Fontenelle, the sieur de la Rey and the abbé Vertot.

Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

She was born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais in 1701 at Varennes, Quebec, oldest daughter of Christophe du Frost, Sieur de la Gesmerays (1661–1708) and Marie-Renée Gaultier de Varennes.

Médard des Groseilliers

He was born at Charly-sur-Marne in France and later called himself Sieur des Groseilliers after a farm his parents managed in Bassevelle.

Pierre Lescot

His father, also Pierre Lescot, was sieur of Lissy-en-Brie and Clagny, not far from Versailles, seigneuries that his son Pierre inherited.

Rene Alexandre LeMoyne

He married on February 2, 1712, in Montreal, on his certificate are the names: Chavalier Claude de Ramezay (Governor of the Island of Montreal), Alexis de Fleury (Conseiller du Roi) and Louis D'Ailleboust (Escuyer (Squire), Sieur d'Argenteuil).

Richard Olivier de Longueil

Richard Olivier de Longueil was born in Lisieux on December 18, 1406, the son of Guillaume III de Longueil, sieur of Eu, and his second wife, Catherine de Bourguenole.

Robert Fitzhamon

Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

Thomas Erskine of Haltoun

He had letters of recommendation from James V to Eleanor of France, the Queen of Navarre, Madame Aubigny and Robert Stuart, sieur d'Aubigny, the Chancellor Antoine Duprat Cardinal of Sens, the Admiral Philippe de Chabot, the Grand Master Anne de Montmorency, and the French Secretary Jean le Breton, sieur de Villandry.


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