Thursday, December 29, 2011

French Empire Nobility n°3

ALLIOT

Claude-Louis ALLIOT (1767-????), captain, commanding the company of reserve of the department of Haute-Loire, knight of the empire by letters patent of January 1st, 1813. Regulation of coats of arms :

Azure, a fess wavy Argent, a sword in pale Gules, hilted Sable, debruising over all, and accompanied in chief of two erased lion's heads Or ; a terrace in base Gules charged of the mark of knights of the Legion of Honor. Liveries : colors of the shield.


ALMÉRAS

Family  native from Provence. Many alternatives of coats of arms concerning this family :

Azure, a lion Or, armed and langued Gules, a chief of the second, charged with three palm leaves Vert, set each one in bend.

Azure, a lion Or, armed and langued Gules, a chief cousu of the same charged with three stars Or.

Sable, a lion rampant Or, a chief cousu Vert charged with three stars Or.

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, quarterly quartered in saltire Azure and Or, the Azure charged of a head of leopard Or and per pale Argent, 3 fess Sable, 2nd and 3rd, Azure, a passant greyhound Argent collared Gules, over all, Azure, a lion Or, armed and langued Gules, and a chief Or charged with three palm leaves Vert set in bend.

Azure, a fess Or, accompanied in chief of 3 palm leaves Or set in bend, and in base of a lion Or.

Azure, a lion Or, langued Gules.

Quarterly : 1st and 4th, Sable, a tower Argent, port and windows of the field, 2nd, Azure, a lion Or, armed and langued Gules, a chief Or, charged with three palm leaves Vert, in bend, 3rd, Vert, a bend Argent.

Louis ALMERAS (1768-1828), major general, baron of the empire by letters patent of September 27th, 1810. Regulation of coats of arms :

Quarterly : 1st, Sable, a tower Argent, port, windows and masoned of the field ; 2nd, of the military barons ; 3rd, Azure, a lion Or ; 4th, Vert, a bend Argent. Liveries : colors of the shield, green in bordure only.



After the empire, the coats of arms became :

Quarterly : 1st, Sable, a tower Argent, port and windows of the field ; 2nd and 3rd, Azure, to the lion Or ; 4th, Vert, a bend Argent.


Title of personal baron, in favor of Louis-Michel ALMERAS-LATOUR, on confirmation and reversion of the title of baron of his paternal uncle (general baron Alméras, deceased on January 7th, 1828) by letters patent of November 16th, 1828. Regulation of coats of arms :

Azure, a fess Argent, charged of a sword Sable, accompanied in chief of a tower Argent and, in base, of a lion of the same.

         

ALPHONSE

François-Jean-Baptiste d'ALPHONSE alias DALPHONSE (1756-1821), prefect of Gard, baron of the empire by letters patent of March 9th, 1810. Regulation of coats of arms :

Lozengy Azure and Or ; a quarter of the barons prefects. Liveries : colors of the shield.


Thereafter, the coats of arms became :

Lozengy Azure and Or.


ALQUIER

Charles-Jean-Marie ALQUIER (1755-1826), former ambassador in the foreign Courts, knight of the empire by letters patent of May 28th, 1809, baron of the empire. Regulation of coats of arms :

Tierced palewise Or, Gules and Azure : Or, 2 stars superposed Azure, Gules, mark of knights of the Legion of Honor, and Azure, 2 stars superposed Argent.


Title of hereditary baron conferred to Charles-Jean-Marie ALQUIER, ambassador [without letters patent], renewed and confirmed in favor of the son, Jean-Charles ALQUIER, by imperial decree of February 5th, 1862. Transmission of the title of hereditary baron confirmed in favor of Charles-Arthur ALQUIER, elder son of the precedent, by letters patent of May 4th, 1870. Regulation of coats of arms :

Per pale : 1st, Or, 2 stars Azure set in pale ; 2nd, Azure, 2 stars Argent set in pale ; a quarter of the barons ministers employed abroad (Gules, charged of a lion head erased Argent).

Thereafter, the coats of arms became :

Tierced palewise : 1st, Or, 2 stars Azure ; 2nd, Gules plain ; 3rd, Azure, a star Or. A chief of the shield Gules, debruising on the tierced and charged of an erased lion's head Argent.


ALSACE

Pierre-Simon d'ALSACE (1772-1825), chamberlain of the emperor, count of the empire by letters patent of September 19th, 1810. Regulation of coats of arms :

Gules, a bend Or, a quarter of the counts officers of the house of the emperor. Liveries : colors of the shield.


ALTON

Family ALTON is of Austrian origin (title of count on April 25th, 1777). The coats of arms are the following ones :

Azure, a lion Argent, armed, langued and membered Gules, accompanied of five fleur de lys Or, four in the cantons of the shield and the fifth in base. Two crowned helmets. Crest : 1° an eagle facing the sinister Sable, crowned Or. Lambrequins : Or and Azure ; 2° a lion, issuant, holding of its dexter paw a branch of laurel Vert. Lambrequins : Argent and Azure. Supporters : two lions Argent, armed and langued Gules. Motto: JUSTUS ET FIDELIS.


Alexandre d'ALTON (1776-1859), colonel of the 59e regiment of infantry of line, baron of the empire by letters patent of January 15th, 1809. Regulation of coats of arms :

Per fess : 1st, per pale, in dexter Vert to the lily Argent, stalked, with leaves and on a terrasse Or and in sinister Gules, mark of the military barons ; 2nd, Azure, a lion rampant Argent holding in dexter hand a branch of laurel and accompanied of five stars also Argent in orle. Liveries : colors of the shield.


Thereafter, the coats of arms became :

    

Jean-Wulfran d'ALTON, count of the empire with majorat by letters patent of April 11th, 1812, general receiver, deceased in Paris October 24th, 1825. Regulation of coats of arms :

Per pale, I : quarterly : 1st, per bend-dancetty Azure and Or, 2 spearheads one on the other ; 2nd, Gules, 3 swords in fess Argent, hilted Or, one on the other ; 3rd, Sable, 3 spearheads Argent 2 and 1 ; 4th, Gules, 2 swords in saltire Argent hilted Or, charged of a sword in pale of the same ; II : Azure, a lion rampant Or, accompanied of five stars of the same in orle ; a quarter of the counts owners.

    

Title of hereditary count confirmed in favor of Alfred DALTON, count of Alton, brigadier general, by decree of March 17th, 1860.

Transmission of the position, title and qualities of hereditary peer of his grandfather, count SHEE, in favor of Edouard DALTON, by the ordinance of December 11th, 1815, with addition of name and authorization of being called “Dalton-Shee”.

Confirmation of transmission of the aforesaid position, title and qualities of hereditary peer in favor of the same Edouard DALTON “DE LINIERES”, and authorization of being called Dalton-Shee de Linières, with title of Dalton-Shee baron of Linières, by ordinance of December 26th, 1815. Title of baroness DALTON-SHEE DE LINIERES, in favor of the mother of the precedent, Francoise SHEE, wife of Jacques-Wulfran DALTON, by the ordinance above of December 26th, 1815

AMEIL

Auguste-Jean-Joseph-Gilbert AMEIL (1775-1822), colonel of the 24e regiment of chasseurs with horse, baron of the empire by letters patent of March 9th, 1810. Regulation of coats of arms :

Quarterly : 1st, Azure, a harp Or ; 2nd, military barons ; 3rd, Gules, a Sagittarius Argent, reguardant and launching an arrow in sinister ; 4th, Vert, a savage, armed of a club Or. Liveries : colors of the shield, green in bordure only.

 

Thereafter, the coats of arms became :

Quarterly : 1st, Azure, a harp Or ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a Sagittarius centaur Argent, reguardant, stripping an arrow towards sinister ; 4th, Vert, a savage Or, holding a club of the same, set on its shoulder.

    

AMEY

Pierre-François-Joseph AMEY (1768-1850), brigadier general, baron of the empire by letters patent of June 11th, 1810. Regulation of coats of arms :

Per fess : 1st, per pale, in dexter Argent, a tower Sable, turretted of a turret of the same, masoned of the field, and in sinister of the military barons ; 2nd, Azure, 3 heads of leopard Or. Liveries : blue, yellow, white, black and red.


Thereafter, the coats of arms became :

Per fess : 1st, Argent, a tower Sable turretted of a turret of the same masoned of the field ; 2nd, Azure, 3 heads of leopard Or.

    

AMIOT

Louis-Aspaïs AMIOT (1751-????), member of the body of electors of Seine-et-Marne, baron of the empire with majorat by letters patent of February 21st, 1814. Regulation of coats of arms :

Azure, a chevron Or charged of a crescent Gules, accompanied in chief of two trefoils Or and in base of a star of the same ; a quarter of the barons members of the body of electors. 


Title of hereditary baron confirmed in favor of Louis-Aspaïs AMIOT, baron of the Empire, owner, by letters patent of February 3rd, 1815. Regulation of coats of arms :

Azure, a chevron Or, charged at top of a crescent Gules, and accompanied in chief of two trefoils Or and, in base, of a star of the same. 


Title of hereditary baron and transmission of majorat in favor of Louis-Jacques Amiot, son of the precedent, by ordinance of March 9th, 1826. Title of hereditary baron and transmission of majorat in favor of Alexandre-Gustave-Aspaïs Amiot, grandson, by ordinance of October 18th, 1828.

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