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317 - BEAUHARNAIS, Famille de. Important set of manuscript archive…
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BEAUHARNAIS, Famille de. Important set of manuscript archives. 15th - 17th centuries. Set of approximately 25 manuscripts on parchment and paper. Various formats. Age defects. IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MANUSCRITS, MOST OF WHICH CONCERN THE BEAUHARNAIS FAMILY, formerly spelled Beauharnois or Biauharnois. This fine collection includes the following: -JEANNE d'ARC]. Manuscript entitled "Extraict du Procès verbal de la justification de la pucelle d'Orléans, qui se voit dans la bibliothèque de St Victor à Paris, cotte 926". This is followed by extracts in Latin from the testimony of Jean Biauharnois: "Page 488 ou 427. Joannis Biauharnois [...]". -Parchment receipt dated 23 December 1426 for Guillaume [?] Beauharnois, for the sum of 240 livres tournois, received from Jacques Bouches, treasurer general of the finances of Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. -A lease of the Chaussée by Guillaume Beauharnois, seigneur of Miramion, dated 10 November 1456. On parchment. -A deed dated 7 July 1470 establishing a transaction between Jacques de Beauharnais, "son & heir of the late noble man Guillaume Beauharnois", lord of Miramion and Pierre Denisot for the purchase of rents. -1474; attestation of the will of Guillaume Beauharnois. -Long marriage deed between Guillaume Beauharnois, son of François Beauharnois and Marie Rousseau. July 25th 1599. -LOUIS XIII]. Letter of office on parchment, dated January 18, 1620. Signed by Louis XIII (handwritten), in which he appoints Guillaume de Beauharnais, seigneur d'Outreville, Conseiller du roi en ses conseils d'État et privé: " [...The King is in Paris, taking into consideration the good and pleasant services that the Lord of Outreville, Guillaume de Beauharnois, President and Treasurer General of France of the office of his finances in Orleans, has rendered him on all occasions, in which he has acquired great ability and knowledge of the affairs of this State, His Majesty wishing to honour him with a quallity commensurate with his merit, has retained, ordered and established him as his advisor in his State and Privy Council. It is his wish and intention that from now on he should have entry, sessions and a deliberative voice, and that he should enjoy the honours, authorities, privileges, remuneration and rights attributed to the said office, as well as the other councillors in his said council, and to this end should take the required and customary oath in the hands of Monsieur de Sillery, Chancellor of France, or Monsieur du Vair, Keeper of the Seals. In witness whereof His Majesty has commanded me to send him the present patent which he has wished to sign by his hand [...]". -LOUIS XIII]. P.S. (handwritten), relating to the appointements of Guillaume Beauharnois. 6 June 1635. -Marriage contract between "Jean de Beauharnais, second of the name and Marie Mallet" daughter of the sieur de Villeroy, on April 12, 1636. Jean de Beauharnais (1606-1661) was the King's ordinary butler. He was the great-grandfather of François VI de Beauharnais, whose son, Alexandre de Beauharnais, married Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the French, in 1779. -LOUIS XIV]. Handwritten document on parchment by the Maistre d'Hotel du Roy, with a secretary's signature, relating to Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische. Compiègne, 4 September 1652. Contresignature of Guénégaud. -Various documents relating to Guillaume de Laubespine, canon of Orléans, etc. -ETC.
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