A Family Genealogy of
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William I of BEAUHARNAIS #78843
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Founder of the House of Beauharnais.
William I of Beauharnais is the first ancestor attested (by his marriage contract on January 20, 1390) of the house of Beauharnais. He is a merchant from Orléans, described as lord of Miramion and the Causeway, who lives "almost nobly".
Much later, by a pure slander, it was claimed that the family had first borne the name of Beau saw before changing it to Beauharnais. The Duke of Saint-Simon echoed it about the death of the wife of Jean-Jacques de Beauharnais in March 1696: "It was called Bonneau and his father the sieur de Rubelles, wealthy bourgeois of Paris. She had married another [bourgeois] of Orléans, who was also very wealthy, whose father had obtained letters patent to change his dirty and ridiculous name Beau saw in that of Beauharnois."
William I of Beauharnais is the first ancestor attested (by his marriage contract on January 20, 1390) of the house of Beauharnais. He is a merchant from Orléans, described as lord of Miramion and the Causeway, who lives "almost nobly".
Family
William I of Beauharnais married, by contract of 20 January 1390, Marguerite de Bourges. They have at least three children:- John I of Beauharnais who married, in 1423, Anne de Loynes. Defender of Orléans in 1428, he testified, in this respect, to the process of rehabilitation of Joan of Arc. Hence 1 son: John II Beauharnais, who died after 1487, without agnatic posterity.
- William II Beauharnais (who perpetuates the agnatic lineage);
- Jeanne Beauharnais.
"Beauharnais"
The name of Beauharnais was written in different ways: Beauharnoys, Beauharnois, Voltaire gave it its definitive spelling: Beauharnais.Much later, by a pure slander, it was claimed that the family had first borne the name of Beau saw before changing it to Beauharnais. The Duke of Saint-Simon echoed it about the death of the wife of Jean-Jacques de Beauharnais in March 1696: "It was called Bonneau and his father the sieur de Rubelles, wealthy bourgeois of Paris. She had married another [bourgeois] of Orléans, who was also very wealthy, whose father had obtained letters patent to change his dirty and ridiculous name Beau saw in that of Beauharnois."
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