Beaumanoir
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Beaumanoir was a seigniory in what is now the department of Côtes-d'Armor
, France
, which gave its name to an illustrious family.
Côtes-d'Armor
Côtes-d'Armor is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France.-History:Côtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Brittany. Its name was changed in 1990 to...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, which gave its name to an illustrious family.
- Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)Philippe de Rémi was an Old French poet and trouvère from Picardy, and the bailli of the Gâtinais from 1237 to at least 1249. He was also the father of Philippe de Beaumanoir, the famous jurist, by his wife Marie....
, French poet and bailiff - Philippe de Rémi (died 1296), French jurist and royal official
- Jean de BeaumanoirJean de BeaumanoirJean, or Jehan de Beaumanoir, marshal of Brittany for Charles of Blois, and captain of Josselin, is remembered for his share in the famous Combat of the Thirty during the War of Breton Succession between the partisans of competing claimants for the Dukedom.Robert Bramborough, the English captain...
(14th century), marshal of Brittany - Jean de Beaumanoir (marquis)Jean de Beaumanoir (marquis)Jean De Beaumanoir , seigneur and afterwards marquis de Lavardin, count of Nègrepelisse by marriage, was a French marshal.He served first in the Protestant army, but turned Catholic after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, in which his father had been killed, and then fought against Henry of Navarre...
(1551-1614), seigneur and afterwards marquis de Lavardin