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Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
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Birthca 1548308
Death8 Dec 1611, Landauran18
TitleEc. sgr. d’Escury and de Landauran
FatherDavid (i) Collot D’Escury (-<1562)
MotherRenée d’Avrout (-1562)
Marriage1583308
Notes for Françoise-Philipe de Villorio
From a family of note in Brittany.308
Notes for David (ii) (Spouse 1)
Ec. sgr. d’Escury and de Landauran near Vitré in Brittany.18 Married, firstly, 1n 1583, Dlle. Philippe de Villorio, who died childless in 1601. By this marriage did the seigneury de Landauran come into the Collot family.
Originally from Picardy, near Noyon.308
[BHSP] says:
“Before I talk about David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury, my grandfather, let me say first that it is now impossible to learn more about his ancestors, because his second wife, hating the children of her first marriage, burnt the papers and the titles of the family of my grandfather, as we shall see in the following.
But David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury, was originally from Picardy, near Noyon, as I have read many times in his marriage contract with Françoise-Philipe de La Villorio, a family of note in Brittany, whom he married in 1583, and with whom he had no children [this doesn't make sense. If she didn't have children who were her heirs? I need to get better at tranlating French]: she died in 1601, and although she left him everything in her will, as he was already well off, he gave to the heirs of his wife everything she had left to him.
The said David remarried in 1606, to Marie Le Noir, whose mother was a Coisnon. They had three children, to wit: Philiphe, André and Margerite: he lived with her only until 1612 when he died, leaving his three children, of whom the oldest was only 4 and a half years old. My father, called André, was only two years old, being born in May, 1610.
They were given tutors in 1613, Messieur de Beauchans et Messieur Le Noir, their mother's brother. Neither these gentlemen nor the mother profited from the children. [I don't understand the next bit. Something about the tutors wanting to get their hands on the money, but couldn't. The children were told to do everything they were told because they had nobody to protect their interests.].
Everything that we have been able to learn about the origins of her husband, was told to my grandmother, Marie Le Noir, by her late husband David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury. He said to her that when he was about 15 years old, and his brother a year younger, his mother was killed in the massacre in the church at Vassy, a small town in Champagne, on the Bloise, in the first religious civil war in the reign of Charles IX. His mother perished in the church at the hands of the army of the duc de Guise. While they were chanting Psalm 88, the barbarians entered the church, sword in hand, and massacred everybody there, and he and his brother could hear their mother, who was a widow, asking God many times to save her children, for the sake of her who was dying for his holy name [?. Not too sure about this translation].
David Collot and his brother, having been noticed by the troops to have white on their hats, as the troops had put on theirs, were thus saved. David went to the Bishop of Noyon, a good friend of the family, where he hid for three days, after which time the Bishop said he had to leave, as if anybody discovered that he had given asylum to David, he himself would be killed. So my grandfather went to Brittany, to the house of Monsieur le comte de Fretigny, who took him in very willingly and looked after him until his marriage to Françoise-Philipe de La Villorio.
At this time, Henry IV took the throne of France. My grandfather took the opportunity to go to Vitré, a small town of the Messieurs de la Trimouilles, in Brittany, where there was a large church maintained by those seigneurs [presumably a Protestant church]. There, finally, he was able to gain the consolation of his proper faith, in a way that had been very difficult to do previously.”
Originally from Picardy, near Noyon.308
[BHSP] says:
“Before I talk about David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury, my grandfather, let me say first that it is now impossible to learn more about his ancestors, because his second wife, hating the children of her first marriage, burnt the papers and the titles of the family of my grandfather, as we shall see in the following.
But David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury, was originally from Picardy, near Noyon, as I have read many times in his marriage contract with Françoise-Philipe de La Villorio, a family of note in Brittany, whom he married in 1583, and with whom he had no children [this doesn't make sense. If she didn't have children who were her heirs? I need to get better at tranlating French]: she died in 1601, and although she left him everything in her will, as he was already well off, he gave to the heirs of his wife everything she had left to him.
The said David remarried in 1606, to Marie Le Noir, whose mother was a Coisnon. They had three children, to wit: Philiphe, André and Margerite: he lived with her only until 1612 when he died, leaving his three children, of whom the oldest was only 4 and a half years old. My father, called André, was only two years old, being born in May, 1610.
They were given tutors in 1613, Messieur de Beauchans et Messieur Le Noir, their mother's brother. Neither these gentlemen nor the mother profited from the children. [I don't understand the next bit. Something about the tutors wanting to get their hands on the money, but couldn't. The children were told to do everything they were told because they had nobody to protect their interests.].
Everything that we have been able to learn about the origins of her husband, was told to my grandmother, Marie Le Noir, by her late husband David Collot, esquire, seigneur d'Escury. He said to her that when he was about 15 years old, and his brother a year younger, his mother was killed in the massacre in the church at Vassy, a small town in Champagne, on the Bloise, in the first religious civil war in the reign of Charles IX. His mother perished in the church at the hands of the army of the duc de Guise. While they were chanting Psalm 88, the barbarians entered the church, sword in hand, and massacred everybody there, and he and his brother could hear their mother, who was a widow, asking God many times to save her children, for the sake of her who was dying for his holy name [?. Not too sure about this translation].
David Collot and his brother, having been noticed by the troops to have white on their hats, as the troops had put on theirs, were thus saved. David went to the Bishop of Noyon, a good friend of the family, where he hid for three days, after which time the Bishop said he had to leave, as if anybody discovered that he had given asylum to David, he himself would be killed. So my grandfather went to Brittany, to the house of Monsieur le comte de Fretigny, who took him in very willingly and looked after him until his marriage to Françoise-Philipe de La Villorio.
At this time, Henry IV took the throne of France. My grandfather took the opportunity to go to Vitré, a small town of the Messieurs de la Trimouilles, in Brittany, where there was a large church maintained by those seigneurs [presumably a Protestant church]. There, finally, he was able to gain the consolation of his proper faith, in a way that had been very difficult to do previously.”