France

French Heraldry has been basically self-assumed. Titles were also often assumed by several members of the same noble Family, perhaps with the exception of the titles of Duke who were Pairs de France. So, it may be useful to visit: François Velde's scholarly and excellent site on French Heraldry.

Note: Blazonings and notes were kindly provided by François Velde, to whom the editors wish to express their gratitude for his valuable contribution.

d'Angeville, Marquis de Courtilloles
de Boury, Comte (Aubourg de Boury)
Dufosse, G.A.
de Fresne de Beaucourt, G (Marquis)

de Laubespin, Marquis
de Layer, Baron
du Repaire, Marquis Beaumont
de Senneville-Grave, A.

Marquis de Courtilloles d'Angeville

Notes: de Courtilloles, or a lion azure on a chief gules three plates. Ennobled 1698, baron in 1820. This one is very interesting because the titles used (ecuyer, chevalier, the latter probably not even legitimate) have nothing to do with the marquis' coronet, which is clearly meant to be decorative only (F. Velde).

Beaumont du Repaire

Marquis de Beaumont du Repaire

Arms: Beaumont du Repaire: gules on a fess argent three fleurs-de-lys azure. Dauphiné and Périgord, lineage to 1322 (Beaumont d'Autichamp branch made counts in 1817). The Beaumont du Repaire branch used the courtesy title of comte de La Roque in the 18th c. (La Chesnaye-Desbois) (F. Velde).

Château de Merville http://www.chateau-merville.com/historique.html

«Branche des seigneurs du Repaire, qui était représentée en 1789 par Christophe, comte de Beaumont, petit neveu de l'archevêque de Paris, marié à Madeleine Joséphine de Grossolles-Flamarens, dont il eut:
Amédée, comte de Beaumont, qui n'a pas d'enfants, et Amblard, comte de Beaumont, marié à N... de Perrochel, veuve depuis 1846, dont sont issus:

1° Olivier de Beaumont, mort sans alliance le 8 mai 1844 ; 2° Marie de Beaumont, unique héritière de son rameau, et mariée le 9 avril 1852 à Alfred Adrien, comte de Noailles, ancien attaché de la légation française en Chine». Source:http://gillesdubois.blogspot.com/2006/02/beaumont-dautichamp-de-la-freyte-et-du.html

Notes: Mouchet de Laubespin: Quarterly, 1 and 4 gules a sword erect between two roses or (Battefort), 2 and 3 azure a saltire between four billets or (Laubespin). Over all gules a fess argent between three kestrels or. Supporters: two lions guardant or, armed and langued gules.
The arms are in Rietstap and (with the quarters exchanged) in Valette. Valette says they are originally from Franche-Comté, lineage to 1525, counts 1649. Rietstap gives them as being in Bruxelles and adds: "reconnaissance du titre de comte, 24 juin 1873" but I don't know if that means that the title of count was recognized in France or in Brussels. Franche-Comté was Spanish until 1667. (F. Velde)

Marquis de Laubespin

Baron de Layre

Notes: Bourgnon, baron de Layre: argent a "bourgnon" thereinto entering a fish between three roses, all gules. Poitou, baron in 1811. Note again the Restoration coronet, rather than an Imperial "toque" (the neo-Rococo style is in any event mid-19th c. at earliest) (Valette). A bourgnon is a basket with which a certain type of sea enclosure (called a bouchot) was closed off. The enclosure was V-shaped, with the pointed end toward the shore, and the tip of the V was left open when the tide was coming in. Once the tide started going out, the tip was closed off with the bourgnon, and the fish were trapped within the enclosure... (F. Velde)

A. de Senneville-Grave

G. A. Dufosse, Corneille, sculp. (Rouen)

Comte de Boury (Aubourg de Boury)

Notes: Aubourg de Boury, Azure a lion or, in chief dexter a mullet of the last and in chief senester a tear argent. Normandy (Vexin), ennobled 1653-73, marquis in 1686 (F. Velde).

G. du Fresne de Beaucourt (Marquis de Beaucourt)

Notes: Du Fresne de Beaucourt: Or an ash-tree eradicated vert. Canting arms, obviously. Ennobled 1711, originally from Amiens,(F. Velde).