Gc 929.2 GENEALOGY COLLECTION B7367b 1468075 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 https://archive.org/details/brashearbrashearOObras The Brashear-Brashears 1449-1929 By HENRY SINCLAIR BRASHEAR Texarkana, Ark.-Tex. FIRST EDITION, MAY, 1929 Copyright, 1929, by Henry Sinclair Brashear ■ John de Brassier, the first known ancestor of the family, was a gentleman of the City of Reims, who followed Geffrov Brashear Family le Maingre-Boucicaut, brother of the Merechal de Boucicaut, extract from when he beseiged the antipope Benedict at Avingnon, and who at the beginning of the XVth century settled in the province, Nobiliaire Universel Recueil where his descendents have perpetuated themselves. From him have descended the different branches of this house, whose J GENERAL number is four, ie., des 1. That of the Lords and Marquises of Jocas, residing at Carpentras; Genealogies Historiques et Veridiques 2. The branch Brassier de la Plane, direct issue in the second degree of the preceding one, settled in Rouergue Des Maisons Nobles de L’Europe and became extinct in the ninth degree with Bernard Brassier, Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost of Montpellier in 1696. Publie par 3. The first branch of Brassier de Saint-Simon, direct M. Le Yicomte de Magny descendent in the fourth degree of the preceding one, and settled in Germany. On account of the extinction of the above branch, and of the custom well known and adopted in France Marquis of Jocas; lords and counts of Saint-Simon Lords in consequence of which the younger branch of the family of La Plane of Pix, of Camboulin, of Vallade, etc. receives the qualifications of nobility of the degree next in¬ Coat of Arms; For the branch, House of Brassier de ferior to that of the qualifications enjoyed by the older branch, Jocas; Gold, fesse, azure. Crown of a marquis. Supports the first branch of the Saint-Simon has the right to assume two lions. the title of Count, because the older branch enjoys the title The House of Brassier, whose nobility of ancient extrac¬ of Marquis. tion reverts incontestably to the XIVth century, has its 4. In conclusion, the second branch of Brassier de Saint- origin in the province of Champagne, whence it spread itself Simon, issue in the seventh degree of the former one, and successively into Provence Rouergue, Lorraine and Germany, actually domiciled in the ancient Provence of Le Rouergue. where many of its members enjoy up to this time high posi¬ Beside the seigneurial fief of Jocas of wrhich the older tions. branch carries the name, and which has been decorated in The chivalric extraction of this house is attested by all the last century writh the title of Marquisat, the family has the documents of the researches of the nobility made in the possessed several other important ones, among others those year, 1667, by Mr. Pellot, intendent de la generalite de of LaPlane, of Camboulan, of Le Pin of Vallade, of Saint- Guiene and by the authentic proofs of nobility established by Simon and etc., Chevilard in behalf of Mr. Bernard de Brassier, Knight, lord of LaPlane, on the occasion of his installation as Knight Although the Coats of Arms of the branch of Jocas differ in the order and militia of Saint Esprit de Montpellier. essentially from those of the other three branches, it does not Most of the titles of nobility of the house of Brassier at all follow that their origin is a different one from the other, having been lost, destroyed or burned at the time of the as for time immemorial it has been recognized that the Coat Revolution of 1789, we were compelled to supply them by of Arms does not prove the identity of family. We are un¬ establishing the genealogy which shall be read on authentic able to affirm whether the original coats of arms are rhose documents which we shall cite, and the originals of which are of the branch of Jocas, or those used by the branches of La preserved in the imperial archives of Paris. By the aid Plane and of Saint Simon, but we presume that the oldest of these documents we have been able to correct the errors ones are those of the branch of Jocas, which is the oldest committed by M. de Courcelles, Genealogist of the King, in the and from which the three other branches have issued. In very incomplete genealogy which he has published about the different provinces where it had had its residence, in this House in the fifth volume of FHistoire Genealogique France as well as in Germany, this house has always been des Paris de France. allied with the most ancient and the most noble families. We ) rang Jon *N>f> lo •s u t .mi'- iq m )v ,*i jii o bits Mtalct . >01 >1 T 'i . 4i i'I vy notice among the alliances of the branch of the marquises any children, disposed of her property in favor of her brother of Jocas the following names; De Grignan, Alleman de in* 1546 and Andre Brassier made his cousin Claude de Chateauneuf, de Gardane, des Henriques, d’Anselme, de Sainte-Marie his legatee by his testament made October 8, Bernady, de Concevl, d’Albert de Grillett de Brissac, de Lopis- 1562, before Charles de Saint Maurice, notary of Pernes. He Lafare, des Courtils, de Montbertoin, Jacops d’Aigremont, left only a natural daughter Marie de Brassier. etc., and in the alliances of the branches of Saint Simon, those (b) Dauphine Brassier, died without marrying. of Hautvillar, de pere, d’Espinas de Montbron, de Eeqnin de 2. Jean Brassier, who follows: Barbotan, de Fleyres, de Clarac, d’Alray, de Boyer, de Loren,*/ 3. Maurice Brassier, who formed the branch of the lords Pino de Frieddenthal, de Stampfer, de Ribeaupierre, etc. of La Plane of Saint-Simon, of Camboulan, of Vallade, etc., The authentic and uninterrupted filiation of this house mentioned hereafter. was established since: 4. Jean Brassier, died without posterity. 5. Catherine Brassier, married through Raymond Bras¬ John Brassier, Page, first known ancestor of the family sier, her oldest brother, and through Pierre de Rics, her de Brassier originally from the diocese of Reims, who settled uncle, on October 14th, 1485, with Jean de Sainte Marie of the in the city of Pernes, in the county of Venaissin, about the city of Pernes. year 1440; he received the acknowledgment of different parties, his tenants by emphyteusis by legal document of SECOND DEGREE acknowledged before Claude Cornetti, notary in said Pernes, 11. Jean de Brassier, second of this name, acknow¬ fourteenth of February, 1446, fifth of February 1449 and ledged to have been recognized as a noble and powerful man eighth of January, 1456. was placed, when his father died, with his mother and his Jean de la Porte, lord of Champeroux in the diocese of uncles. He was engaged by marriage contract made at Car¬ Bourges, gave him remittance of the revenues which he had pentras before Martial Boneti, notary, at the house of Perrin exacted for him in the neighborhood of the city of Pernes, Bertrand, father of the learned Etienne Bertrand, February by document executed in the Castle of Boulbon in Provence 12th, 1495,to Catherine de Bellesmanieres. Jean Brassier before Humbert de Rota, notary of Avignon, the eleventh had a law-suit against Louis de Bellesmanieres, his brother- day of June, 1449. Jean Brassier was married three limes, in-law for the recovery of the sum of 350 golden crown in¬ first with Antoinette de M&nlsang of whom he inherieted, tended as a marriage settlement upon Dauphine Augigier, her although there were no children, second with Huguette de mother-in-law; thereupon obtained a jirdgment of Jean Fer- Grignan of the city of Carpentras, who also died without rier, archbishop of Arles, souvereign seigneur of Montdragon, children after having made her testament before Guillaume given at the Castle de Salon, August 5, 1514, who gave him Pinchoni, a notary of Pernes, in the month of January, 1465, judgment in favor of his claim. By legal documents of by which she made a legacy to her husband, and made January 2. 1521, made in the presence of Isnard Jay, notary Rodolphe de Vulsiocohia, her son by a former marriage, her at Pernes, he divided with his brothers and sister and Andre universal legatee; third by contract executed by the same Brassier, his nephew, the property accruing from the succes¬ notary, March 25th, 1465, with Isabelle de Rics, daughter of sion of his father and mother. On June 28, 1557, in the pre¬ Baudet de Rics of the City of Apt. He made his testament. sence of Pierre Cornetti. notary, he made his last will and March 9, 1477, through the before mentioned Pinchoni, testament in which he made his oldest sons universal legatee. notary, by which, in case his widow should marry again, he Of his marriage he left; places under the guardianship of Etienne and of Pierre de 1. Barthelemy Brassier, who follows: Riccis, his brother-in-law, his five children, whose names fol¬ 2. Antoine Brassier, and ecclesiastic who was the legatee low: of his father, besides the patrimony which had been bestowed 1. Raymond Brassier, who married Sezanne de Laugier, upon him by legal document of January 28, 1524. who is believed the daughter of Baudoin Laugier of the city THIRD DEGREE of Apt. He made his testament, June 29th, 1494, before Vincent Chapat, notary of Pernes, and in this document he Barthelemy Brassier, heir of his father’s property, added names his two children Andre Brassier, legatee of his father, the name of Jocas to his own and transmitted the same to pos¬ who was married with Alienor Boutin, daughter of Bernard terity.