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Variations Last name: Bouchard d'Aubeterre,Bouchard de Méhérenc,Bouchard de Saint Privat-d'Allier
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
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Bouchard
Variations Last name: Bouchard d'Aubeterre,Bouchard de Méhérenc,Bouchard de Saint Privat-d'Allier
Ancient and very noble French family, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries. The family appears in Brittany since the eleventh century. A Bouchard appears in fact in a document of 1096 as Prior of Pellerin. Subsequently a Pierre Bouchard is cited as canon of Notre-Dame of Nantes, in 1352. The nobility of this branch goes back to 1380, with confirmation of 1513. Among the most famous exponents we remember Jehan Bouchard, lord of Antwerp, royal counselor and procurator to Parliament in 1459. The branch of the Bouchard family that flourished in Saintonge, a former province of France located on the west central Atlantic coast, is also very noble. Tradition has it that this branch descended from a great squire of Emperor Charlemagne. Belonging to the knightly nobility, this branch had the titles of: marquises and counts of Aubeterre, lords of Crozet, barons of St-Privat-d'Allier and Jalasset, lords of Vergezac and Talobre, lords of Chambois and Barret. Among the first exponents of whom we know about there is a Bernard Bouchard, lieutenant of Puy, who ...
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BlazonBouchard
Variations Last name: Bouchard d'Aubeterre,Bouchard de Méhérenc,Bouchard de Saint Privat-d'Allier
1. Crest of family: Bouchard
Language of the text: English
Quarterly; 1° and 4° gules, three leopards (1,1,1)or langued and armed argent; ° and 3° lozengy or and azure on a chief gules.
Coat of arms of family Bouchard marquises of d'Aubeterre in Saintonge. Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K" page 263.
Argent, two keys per saltire sable between two fleur-de-lys gules.
Coat of arms of family Bouchard from Ile-de-France. Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K" page 263.
Argent on a chief azure. Bordure gules. Motto: FAIS HONNEUR.
Coat of arms of family Bouchard or Bouchard de Méhérenc in Brittany and Normandy. Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K" page 263.
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families