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Famille Le Tellier Paris, Île-de-France, Champagne, Bourgogne Louvois (Champagne, Election d’Epernay) : marquisat (1624 pour M. de Conflans d’Armentières) vendu à Claude Pinart de Comblizy (nouvelle érection en marquisat par Lettres de 02/1625, enregistrées aux Parlement & Chambre des Comptes 16/07 & 21/08/1656) puis vendu à Michel Le Tellier, Chancelier de France. Montmirail : ancien fief d’une famille alliée aux Coucy. Famille Le Tellier Autres branches : Barbézieux, d’Estrées, de Montmirail Armes : & marquis de Louvois, «D’azur, à trois lézards d’argent posés en pals, au chef cousu de gueules chargé de trois étoiles d’or» Souvré & Courtenvaux alias : «D’azur, à trois lézards d’argent posés en pal & Le Tellier accostés, au chef de gueules chargé de trois étoiles d’or» Branche des Marquis de Souvré : «Ecartelé : aux 1 & 4, de Le Tellier ; & aux 2 & 3, d’azur, aux cinq cotices d’or (de Souvré)». Branche des Marquis de Souvré et de Louvois : «Ecartelé : aux 1 & 4, de Le Tellier ; aux 2 & 3, de Souvré; sur-le-tout écartelé : a & d, d’azur, à la tour d’or ; b & c, d’argent, au cerf rampant d’azur». Louis Charles César Le Tellier, Duc d’Estrées : «Ecartelé : aux 1 & 4, de Le Tellier ; au 2, contre-écartelé Louis-Charles- François-Louis Auguste-Michel- Le Tellier, Le Tellier, Le Tellier, César Le Tellier Le Tellier Félicité Le Tellier seigneurs marquis marquis d’Estrées & de La Cauchie ; & 3, de Souvré». (1695-1771) (1704-1767) (1783-1844) de Courtanvaux de Louvois de Souvré Nombreuses (~16) familles homonymes (Guyenne, Île-de-France, Soissonnais & Normandie surtout) dont Le Tellier (seigneurs de Triqueville, Tourneville, du Val et Vauclères) : «D'azur, à la tour d'argent, ouverte & maçonnée de sable». > cf annexe héraldique en p.14 Sources complémentaires : Dictionnaire de la Noblesse (F. A. Aubert de La Chesnaye- © 2012 Etienne Pattou Desbois, éd. 1775, Héraldique & Généalogie), Héraldique & Généalogie, Roglo, dernière mise à jour : 26/06/2021 Anselme : Généalogie Le Tellier sur http://racineshistoire.free.fr/LGN 1 Pierre Le Tellier fl 1540 ? Guillemette Le Tellier ° 1507 + 1566 Aubergiste dans la Paroisse Saint-Eustache de Paris ép. Toussaint Malot, aubergiste aubergiste Le Tellier ép. 1) Geneviève Le Sueur dans la Paroisse Saint-Eustache à Paris Origines ép. 2) Marie Finet Perrette Loquet entretient une liaison avec Charles de Guise dit «Mayenne» ° 25/03/1554 (Meudon) + 04/11/1611 (Soissons, 02) duc de Mayenne, baron de La Ferté-Bernard et de Sablé, Pair, Michel Le Tellier + 29/07/1563 (Paris) 2) Perrine Le Tellier Amiral & Grand-Chambellan de France, Lieutenant-Général Notaire au Châtelet de Paris (1551), Commissaire (1554) ép. Jean Desjardins, des Armées, Gouverneur de Bourgogne, Chef de la Ligue (1588) ép. Catherine Ganeron Médecin du Roi François 1er comme Lieutenant-Général de l’Etat & Couronne de France. Michel 1er Le Tellier ° 1545 + 24/01/1608 Marie Marguerite Catherine Claude Marguerite Le Tellier Etienne seigneur de Chaville, Correcteur (1584) puis maître ordinaire Le Le Le Le ép. (c.m.) 17/08/1583 Philippe de Rosnel, Le Tellier en la Chambre des Comptes, maître des requêtes (1608) Tellier Tellier Tellier Tellier seigneur des Molinaulx (10/06/1578) Huissier ép. (c.m.) 20/11/1574 Perrette (alias Marie) ° 1546 (Paris) + avant 03/12/1608 (Paris) en Parlement Loquet + 05/04/1593 Maître orfèvre à Paris (reçu 15/11/1570), (1632) X) liaison avec Roberte Musnier capitaine de quartier (pour la Ligue ?) Michel II Le Tellier ° 1575 + 06/05/1617 Charles Le Tellier + 06/08/1635 François Le Tellier X) Robert seigneur de Chaville (92) et Villacoublay, seigneur de Morsan, Baugy (60), Neufvy, Oiseu, ° après 1574 Le Tellier conseiller du Roi au Parlement (reçu 09/08/1597) Soisac et Chaville, Correcteur (1590) légitimé (09/1607) puis Procureur-Général en la Cour des Aides de Paris puis maître ordinaire en la Chambre des Comptes (1619) ép. (c.m.) 04/07/1599 Claude Chauvelin ép. (c.m.) 17/02/1605 Catherine Vaillant de Guélis + 08/01/1627 (fille de François, Procureur-Général (fille de Jean, conseiller au parlement de Paris, de la Reine Marie de Médicis, et de Marie de Charmolüe) et de Françoise de Flexelles) postérité qui suit (p.3) postérité qui suit (p.12) des seigneurs de Morsan 2 Michel II Le Tellier Le Tellier 2 et Claud(in)e Chauvelin Marquis de Louvois & Courtenvaux Michel III Le Tellier ° 19/04/1603 (Paris) + 30/10/1685 (Paris) ? Claude Claude Le Tellier ° 1604 + 1644 Louise Madeleine Le Tellier Françoise Marguerite chevalier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville, Le Tellier ép. 06/03/1628 (Paris) Le Tellier ép. 09/05/1636 Gabriel Le Tellier Le Tellier Louvois et La Ferté-Gaucher, conseiller au Grand-Conseil maître Jean-Baptiste Colbert, seigneur + 07/1664 de Cassagnet, seigneur (1624), Procureur du Roi au Châtelet de Paris (28/11/1631), des Comptes de Saint-Pouanges et Villacerf Prieure puis marquis de Tilladet, maître des requêtes (10/01/1639, nommé dès 1638 ?), Intendant à Paris, ° 20/11/1602 (Troyes) + 29/04/1663 de La Ville- Lieutenant-Général de l’Armée d’Italie (1640, Piémont), Secrétaire d’Etat conseiller (Paris) maître des Comptes à Paris, L’Evêque des Armées du Roi, au Département de la Guerre (commission 13/04/1643, d’Etat, conseiller du Roi en Ses Conseils (Paris) Gentilhomme sur proposition du Cardinal Mazarin, y remplace des Noyers ; Intendant d’Etat & Privé, conseiller d’Etat, de la Chambre du Roi, serment 04/05/1643, confirmé en 1645), de Intendant de Justice en Lorraine, Gouverneur Grand-Trésorier des Ordres du Roi (10/1652), Lorraine Intendant des Finances (1642), de Bapaume puis Chancelier & Garde des Sceaux de France secrétaire d’Etat à la Guerre de Brisach +X 1655 (fils (prête serment 29/10/1677, y succède à d’Aligre) (fils d’Oudart et de Marie Le Fouret) de Bernard, seigneur de ép. (c.m.) 12/02/1629 Elisabeth Turpin ° ~1608 + 28/11/1698 Tilladet et Chuisseaux, (fille de Jean, seigneur de Vauvredon (Berry), conseiller postérité Colbert Gouverneur du Vieil en la Cour des Aides, conseiller d’Etat, et de Marie Chapellier) Brissac, et de Jeanne de Narbonne-Lomagne) postérité qui suit (p.4) 3 Michel III Le Tellier Le Tellier 3 et Elisabeth Turpin Marquis de Louvois & Courtenvaux Michel Gabriel François-Michel III Le Tellier ° 02 ou 18?/01/1641 (Paris) Charles-Maurice Le Tellier François Madeleine-Fare Le Tellier Le Tellier Jean + 16/07/1691 (Versailles, subitement) marquis de Louvois, ° 18/07/1642 (Paris) + 22/02/1710 Le Tellier ° 1645/46 + 22/06/1668 ° 1636 Le Tellier Courtenvaux et Barbezieux, seigneur de Montmirail, (Reims, 51) Archevêque ° ~1644 ép. 21/11/1660 Louis-Marie Victor + 09/1645 ° 1639 La Ferté-Gaucher, Chaville, Viroflay et Souvré (par mariage), & 41° duc de Reims (1671), + 29/03/1657 d’Aumont de Rochebaron, (Paris) comte de Tonnerre (1684), Ministre & Secrétaire d’Etat Abbé de Saint-Etienne de Caen, seigneur 2° duc d’Aumont (1669), Pair + jeune ? à la Guerre (en survivance, 13/12/1655, associé à l’exercice Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, Breteuil, de de France, marquis de Villequier, 24/02/1662, seul titulaire par démission de son père 1666), Saint-Rémy, Saint-Thierry Villacoublay Isles, Nolay, comte de Berzé, Surintendant & Général des Postes de France (1668), de Reims, Proviseur de Sorbonne, baron de Chappes, Rochetaillé, Chancelier, Commandeur & Grand-Trésorier des Ordres Commandeur de l’Ordre Joncy, Estrabonne, Convez, du Roi (03/01/1671), Grand-Maître & Vicaire-Général du Saint-Esprit (31/12/1688), Molinot, seigneur de Lys, des Ordres de Saint-Lazare & du Mont-Carmel Grand-Maître de la Chapelle du Roi La Mothe, La Forest, Grailly (04/02/1673, le Roi restant Grand-Maître), Surintendant et La Tour-Brillebault, des Bâtiments, Arts & Manufactures de France (08/09/1683) 1er Gentilhomme de la Chambre (joint à ses marquisats le comté de Tonnerre en Champagne du Roi, Gouverneur de Boulogne et les baronnies de Crussy en Tonnerrois, d’Ancy-Le-Franc ° 09/12/1632 (Paris) en Bourgogne, et de Montmirail-en-Brie) + 19/03/1704 (Paris) ép. (c.m.) 19/03/1662 Anne de Souvré, marquise (fils d’Antoine, 1er duc d’Aumont, de Courtenvaux ° 30/11/1646 (Paris) + 02/12/1715 Pair & Maréchal de France, (fille unique de Charles, marquis de Souvré, et de Catherine Scarron er 1 Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roi, de Vayres) et de Marguerite Barentin) Souvré (jouit du comté de Tonnerre entre 15/07/1691 & 02/12/1715) «D’azur, à cinq cotices d’or» postérité qui suit (p.5) 4 François Michel III Le Tellier 4 et Anne de Souvré Comté de Tonnerre Le Tellier Le ministre Louvois joint le marquisat de Cruzi à ses domaines de Courtenvaux Marquis de Louvois et d’Ancy-Le-Franc & de Souvré Michel-François Le Tellier ° 15/05/1663 + 11/05/1721 Madeleine-Charlotte Le Tellier Elisabeth Louis-Nicolas Le Tellier dit «Marquis de Souvré» (Ancy-Le-Franc) marquis de Louvois, comte puis marquis ° 23/06/1665 + 18/11/1735 Anne ° 23/01/1667 + 10/12/1725 (Versailles) marquis de Souvré, de Courtenvaux, seigneur de Montmirail, comte de Tonnerre ép. (c.m.) 22/10/1679 François VIII Le Tellier seigneur de Montmirail, mestre de camp de cavalerie (achat de Tonnerre entre 24/09/1679 & 1682 à Jacques de La Rochefoucauld, 4° duc ° 1666 (1689), Lieutenant-Général au Gouvernement de Béarn de Clermont-Tonnerre), Secrétaire d’Etat (en survivance, de la Rochefoucauld (11/01/1714), + jeune & Navarre (1689), maître de la Garde-Robe du Roi 07/12/1681), officier, sert en Hongrie (1686,87), Pair de France, 2° Prince de Marcillac, (08/05/1689), chevalier des Ordres du Roi (03/06/1724) capitaine-Colonel des Cent-Suisses de la Garde du Roi duc de La Rocheguyon, marquis ép.
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