The Protestants of Champagne-Ardenne of the 16th and 17th centuries Modern-day Ardennes – Aube - Marne – Haute-Marne Wikipédia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne-Ardenne Archives nationales (France) www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr Site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Archives nationales 59, rue Guynemer 900021 – 93383 Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Tel : +33 1 75 47 20 02 http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/fr_FR/web/guest/home Salle de lecture de Paris Archives nationales 11, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003, Paris Tel : + 33 (0) 1 40 27 64 20 http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/fr_FR/web/guest/home France Archives 1 Protestant Registers Archives des consistoires – Églises réformées de France Archives nationales > Inventaire – TT//230-TT//276/B Dates : 1317, 1446, 1520-1740 https://francearchives.fr/fr/findingaid/f6bc0cffa0190ca16c5495b42cd77365abd244ee http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/fr_FR/web/guest/home Protestant registers at the Archives départementales de France Série I – Protestant dossiers Série C – Intendances & subdélégations – Government appointees & subdelegations Série E – Familles - Families Archives période de 1685-1787 - Archives départementales de France Archives – Period of 1685-1787 – Archives départementales de France Série A: Acte du pouvoir souverain – Power of the Kings of France in regard to various judgments or laws issued by said Court of France (Kings) Textes réglementaires avec les édits du roi – Laws or official directives rendered by various kings of France Série B - Cours et juridiction de l'Ancien Régime - Juridiction seigneuriale ou hautes justices – Ancient Rêgime (prior to the French Revolution) – Court decisions (Seignioral or High Court decisions) Procès intentés aux protestants – Legal procedures against Protestant families Déclaration de décès de protestants – Protestant deaths (Déclarations) Permis d’inhumer – Burial permits Permis d’inhumer – Burial permits Sous-Série B - Chambre des comptes - Legal dossiers Documents relatifs aux confiscations de biens de personnes considérées comme hérétiques – Documents concerning the confiscation of holdings (homes, farms, bank accounts, etc.) which had been the property of Protestant families. Série C - Administrations provinciales – Provincial or regional administration of documents of Protestant families and others. Etat des nouveaux convertis – Status of new converts 2 Registre des procès des catholiques qui abandonnent leur religion pour la religion protestante, tenu par les prêtres catholiques - Registers of legal judgments rendered by Catholic priests in regard to families of various regions of France who converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. Plainte des protestants qui ouvrent de nouveaux temples (1650-1660) – Complaints voiced by various Protestant communities in regard to the opening (refusal or acceptance) of new temples within a particular community (1650-1660) Jugement de l'intendance contre des protestants (amende, banissement) – Intendants (government appointed administrators) and judgments rendered by said Intendants regarding the banishment of Protestant families Série E - Féodalité - Communes - Familles - Notaires - État civil – Civil registers – Seigniories – Towns, villages, cities – Families - Notaries Sous-Série : 1E ou 3E (selon les AD) - Archives Notariales – Notarial records Contrats de mariage de protestant – Protestant marriage contracts Décès protestants – Protestant deaths – Protestant burials (Acceptance or refusal in a traditional cemetery) Sous-Série : 2E - État civil – Sub-serie 2E - Civil Registers (including Protestant families) Registre de BMS : acte de baptême ou sépulture - Birth, marriage, death : Church registers of baptisms and deaths Registre de BMS : liste d'abjuration – Birth, marriage, death registers (Registers of abjurations (renouncing of one’s faith) Série G - Clergé séculier – Secular clergy Liste d'abjuration – Listings of abjurations (acts of renunciation of one’s faith) Listes d’enfants retirés à leurs parents pour être élevés dans la foi catholique – Lists of Protestant children who were taken away from their parents and raised as Catholics Série H Série I - Culte Protestant – Protestant faith Sequestre des biens saisis – Holdings which were removed from Protestant families Registres BMS des temples – Registers of baptism marriage, death in Protestant Temples Protestant registers at the Archives communales (Municipal Archives) Actes pastoraux - Protestant Church Registers issued by Protestant Pastors 3 Protestant registers at the Archives nationales de France (Paris) Série TT – Affaires et biens des protestants 1686-1789 - Estates, properties, landholdings which were held by Protestant families that were or were not confiscated Source: FranceGenWeb www.francegenweb.org Archives nationales de France Archives des Consistoires 1317-1446 – 1520-1740 # TT 230-276B Within these files, you can research a great number of Protestant families in many regions of France including Champagne Ardenne. Fonds only available on microfilm at the Archives nationales de France at Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. https://francearchives.fr/fr/findingaid/f6bc0cffa0190ca16c5495b42cd77365abd244ee https://francearchives.fr/fr/findingaid/f6bc0cffa0190ca16c5495b42cd77365abd244ee.csv Trésor des Chartes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trésor_des_Chartes# www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/fonds/EGF/SA/SAPDF/egfn_j.pdf Accessing the full text of the Trésor des Chartes’ Registers OpenEdition Books – Himanis https://himanis.hypotheses.org/105 Étiquette: Trésor des Chartes OpenEdition https://histoirelivre.hypotheses.org/tag/tresor-des-chartes FamilySearch.org France, registres protestants, 1536-1897 Dossiers des paroisses protestantes de France - Naissances, mariages, et décès – 39,994 images en ligne France Protestant Civil Registers, 1536-1897 Protestant Church Registers – Baptisms, marriages, deaths – 39,994 online images https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1582585 FamilySearch.org France, registres protestants de la Société de l’histoire du protestantisme français, 1562- 1960 – 341 dossiers numériques. 4 This collection contains records of French Protestants living in France, Germany, Switzerland from 1562 onward – 341 digitized dossiers https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/1804543?availability=Family%20History%20Librar y France Huguenot Family Lineage Searches Huguenot family names, ancient families and family heraldry of France of the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries https://genealogyensemble.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/france-huguenots-family- lineage-searches.pdf Archives départementales de France Online searches at the 95 Regional Archives of France (Free searches) https://genealogyensemble.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/archives-dc3a9partementales- de-france-revision-2018-04-16.pdf Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français – Paris – Founded in 1852 https://www.shpf.fr Musée protestant https://www.museeprotestant.org/ Patrick Cabanel Histoire des protestants en France – XVIe-XXIe siècle (1,502 pages) An extensive and essential guide in the French language for family lineage researchers with Protestant roots in France from the 16th to the 21st century. It focuses on authors, place names, provinces, principalities, dukedoms of ancient France and also place in modern times. https://www.fayard.fr/ https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/ https://www.renaud-bray.com/accueil.aspx Gildas Bernard Guide de recherches sur l’histoire des familles (France) Gildas Bernard – Ségolène de Danville-Barbiche - Danièle Neirinck This 347-page online resource will help you research specific families at various archives in France, including Protestant families. A superb treatise referred to by genealogists and family lineage researchers in France as Le Gildas Bernard. In the French language, this is a detailed guide first published in 1981 by the: Archives nationales de France / Archives de France https://www.siv.archives- nationales.culture.gouv.fr/mm/media/download/FRAN_ANX_011900.pdf 5 1565-1721 - Familles protestantes de France Lieux de mémoire -- 1565-1721 - Protestant families of France Where they resided within the -- Champagne-Ardenne https://genealogyensemble.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/huguenot-families-in-france- 1565-1721.pdf https://www.museeprotestant.org/notice/lieux-de-memoire-en-champagne-ardennes-3/ https://www.museeprotestant.org/notice/sedan-ardennes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Principality_of_Sedan Aisne (02) - Annois - Archon - Assis-sur-Serre - Athies-sous-Laion - Au Désert - Aubuchemboeuf-aux-Bois - Aubenton-Sudigny - Aulnois-sous-Laon - Autreppes - Avesnes sur Helpes - Bazoches-sur-Vesles - Beaulne-et-Chivy - Beaumé - Beaumont-en- Beine - Beaurevoir - Becquigny - Bellenglise - Bellicourt - Bergues-sur-Sambre - Berlise - Bernot - Berrieux - Bertaucourt-Épotdon - Béthancourt-en-Vaux - Bohain-en-Vermandois - Bois-lès-Pargny - Bony - Boué - Brancourt-le-Grand - Braye - Brunehamel - Bucy-lès- Pierrepont - Buire - Buironfosse - Cambresis – Château-Thierry - Chauny - Chéry - Chevennes - Chigny - Cilly - Clairfontaine - Coingt - Colonfay - Compiegne – Condé-en- Brie - Courmelles - Crécy-sur-Serre - Crepy en Laonnois - Croix-Fonsommes - Crupilly - Cugny - Dercy - Dizy-le-Gros - Dohis - Dorengt - Ébouleau - Englancourt - Erloy - Esquéhéries - Essômes-sur-Marne - Étréaupont - Étreillers - Étreux - Fargniers - Fayet - Festieux - Flavigny-le-Grandet-Beaurain - Flavy-le-Martel - Folembray - Fontaine-lès- Clercs - Fontaine-Notre-Dame - Fontenelle - Franqueville - Fresnoy-le-Grand