Family of Barrau
Encyclopedia
The patronymic name, Barrau, would be of Gallo-Roman origin. The Gaulish root Barr indicates an obstacle, a difficult place of access.
The Gaulish language
belongs to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family
.
This name is relatively widespread in Europe
: Barro in Spain
and in Portugal
; Barrow in England
; Barrau, Barreau, Barrot, Barraud, Barraux ..., in France
.
(Rouergue is an old province of the South of France. She is bordering by the Auvergne
in North and by the Languedoc
in the South) are the 13th century.
In 16th century, this family begins a processus from aggregation to the nobility by the noble life.
The noble life is the mode most representative of aggregation to the nobility
. The noble life is characterized by the fact of taking privileges normally reserved for the nobility in the name of a similar way of life. They are qualifications of nobility, homage of noble strongholds, services in the armies for the King
, bench reserved for the church, the payment of noble capitation, the quality and the constancy of alliances, ...
Titles of nobility : marquis of Carmaux and barons of Jouqueviel by heritages for 18th century.
PRINCIPAL PERSONALITIES
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
The Gaulish language
Gaulish language
The Gaulish language is an extinct Celtic language that was spoken by the Gauls, a people who inhabited the region known as Gaul from the Iron Age through the Roman period...
belongs to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia...
.
This name is relatively widespread in Europe
Europe
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: Barro in Spain
Spain
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and in Portugal
Portugal
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; Barrow in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
; Barrau, Barreau, Barrot, Barraud, Barraux ..., in France
France
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.
Short history of the House of Barrau
The first known mentions of this family in RouergueRouergue
Rouergue is a former province of France, bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest by Languedoc, on the east by Gévaudan and on the west by Quercy...
(Rouergue is an old province of the South of France. She is bordering by the Auvergne
Auvergne (province)
Auvergne was a historic province in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the Counts of Auvergne. It is now the geographical and cultural area that corresponds to the former province....
in North and by the Languedoc
Languedoc
Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² .-Geographical Extent:The traditional...
in the South) are the 13th century.
In 16th century, this family begins a processus from aggregation to the nobility by the noble life.
The noble life is the mode most representative of aggregation to the nobility
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
. The noble life is characterized by the fact of taking privileges normally reserved for the nobility in the name of a similar way of life. They are qualifications of nobility, homage of noble strongholds, services in the armies for the King
Monarch
A monarch is the person who heads a monarchy. This is a form of government in which a state or polity is ruled or controlled by an individual who typically inherits the throne by birth and occasionally rules for life or until abdication...
, bench reserved for the church, the payment of noble capitation, the quality and the constancy of alliances, ...
Titles of nobility : marquis of Carmaux and barons of Jouqueviel by heritages for 18th century.
PRINCIPAL PERSONALITIES
17th century
- Guyon de Barrau (1613-1703), September 19, 1699, Guyon de Barrau is maintained in its nobility by the Intendant of the generality of Montauban, Lepelletier de La Houssaye, on evidence of 1536 and 1539.
18th century
- Pierre de Barrau de Caplongue (1731-1816), Initially musketeer in the second company of the King Louis XVLouis XV of FranceLouis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
, then captain of Dragons. In 1789, he is one of the writers (with the count de Freyssinet, the marquis de Saint-Côme (Castelnau), the count de Montvalat, the count du Bosc, the baron de Saint-Rome, the viscount de Parlan, the knight de Dourdou-Bourzès) of the Book of the complaints and remonstrances about the nobility of the seneschalsy of Rodez for the State-Generals of the kingdom. In Rodez, with the meeting of July 24, 1789, he is indicated secretary of the Order. In 1792, he emigrates in GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
- Pierre de Barrau de Saint-Igest (1736-1788), Bodyguard of the King Louis XV.
- Jean Antoine de Barrau (1737-1795), In 1765, by letter of cachet, he makes lock up his wife (Pauline de Solages) with the convent. The brother of his wife is him imprisoned with the BastilleBastilleThe Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. The Bastille was built in response to the English threat to the city of...
in a dungeon close to that of the marquis de SadeMarquis de SadeDonatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
, he will be released in triumph by the parisian population on July 14 1789. Comment of the business : "The Business of Solages can take row among the most famous stories of letters of cachet, between that of Latude and that of the marquis de Sade. And it impassioned almost on the same basis numbers scholars, researchers and the curious one. It is interesting initially by the mystery which still planes on all this dark machination ; this mystery can it light somewhat in the light of the parts of the Files of Haute-Garonne, which we publish, with the continuation, completely ? It shows us in all cases, on the sharp one, the moderating and enlightened action of one subdelegated intelligent, Ginesty, honest and penetrating lawyer ; ineffective action, of the remainder, because it appears to encounter powerful preventions, with this kind of inertia which the administration opposes when it realizes of a heavy fault or a great injustice, and also with a complicated network of intrigues." (Auguste Puis, Letters of cachet in ToulouseToulouseToulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
at the eighteenth century, according to the documents preserved at the Files of Haute-GaronneHaute-GaronneHaute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. Its main city is Toulouse.-History:Haute-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc.The...
).
- Pierre de Barrau (1761-1829), Bodyguard of the King Louis XVILouis XVI of FranceLouis XVI was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793....
. His family have to suffer much from the French revolution. The family castle was set fire to by the revolutionists the November 1, 1793, the goods of the family plundered, her imprisoned members, and Pierre Firmin Marie de Barrau was tracked and obliged to hide during long month in order to escape the revolutionary Tribunal.
19th century
- Hippolyte de Barrau (1794-1863), After the military special school of Saint-Cyr, he is bodyguard of the King Louis XVIIILouis XVIII of FranceLouis XVIII , known as "the Unavoidable", was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824, omitting the Hundred Days in 1815...
, officer of cavalry, fights several times in duel, chevalier of the Legion of Honour, chevalier of the Faith (Fualdès business - plot of Goudalie), founder and writer of Gazette of Rouergue newspaper legitimist, historian and genealogist, adviser then secretary-general of the Prefecture of Aveyron, founder and first president of the Company of the Letters, Sciences and Arts of AveyronAveyronAveyron is a département in southern France named after the Aveyron River.- History :Aveyron is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790....
in 1836, member of several learned societies, general adviser.
- Victor de Barrau (1796-1825), Bodyguard of the King Louis XVIII, chouanChouanChouan is a French surname. It was used as a nom de guerre by the Chouan brothers, most notably Jean Cottereau, better known as Jean Chouan, who led a major revolt in Bas-Maine against the French Revolution...
.
- Eugène de Barrau (1801-1887), Bachelor of law, lawyer, historian, vice-president of the Company of the Letters, Sciences and Arts of Aveyron, general adviser, founder and writer of the Echo of Aveyron newspaper legitimist, principal leader of the movement legitimistLegitimistsLegitimists are royalists in France who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession of the descendants of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They reject the claim of the July Monarchy of 1830–1848, whose kings were members of the junior...
in Aveyron, fulfills a secret mission near Henri, Count of Chambord, in 1852.
- Adolphe de Barrau (1803-1884), Graduate of medicine at the university of Montpellier, he is a surgeon of the royal Navy, and for this reason he takes part in the conquest of Algiers in June 1830. He is member of the Company of natural history of Montpellier and of the Botanical Company of France, he is one of the founders and member of the Company of the Letters, Sciences and Arts of Aveyron, general adviser. In 1839 and 1840, he is member as a naturalist and a botanist of the scientific Commission of exploration of Algeria chaired by the colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent and one of the heiresses of famous Commission of Egypt. On its return in France, he will maintain a correspondence followed with scientists his time, such Marcel de Serres, DunalMichel Félix DunalMichel Felix Dunal was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819...
, Moquin-TandonAlfred Moquin-TandonChristian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a French naturalist and doctor.Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to...
, Bory de Saint-VincentJean Baptiste Bory de Saint-VincentJean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist. He was born at Agen...
, Girou de Buzareingues.
- Fernand de Barrau (1851-1938), Bachelor of law, lawyer, historian, agronomist, writer of Journal of Aveyron newspaper catholic and royalist, member of the Company of the Letters, Sciences and Arts of Aveyron and of the central Company of Agriculture of Aveyron.
20th century
- Jean de Barrau (1889-1914), Member of the management Committee of the national Federation of the Street pedlars of the King, and particular secretary of Philippe, Duke of Orléans.
- Paul de Barrau (1891-1916), Founder and president of group Action FrançaiseAction FrançaiseThe Action Française , founded in 1898, is a French Monarchist counter-revolutionary movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras...
of Rodez in 1909.
External links
- Famille de Barrau (fr.wikipedia)
- Books by Hippolyte de Barrau
- National Library of France. Book of Eugène de Barrau