The House of Beauvau is a very old family from Anjou, titular for several centuries of the seigneurie de Beauvau (Maine-et-Loire) ; of knightly extraction, it traced its evidence of nobility until 1265. It split into two main branches, the Beauvau du Rivau and the Beauvau-Craon, who made career under the Kings of France but also under the Dukes of Lorraine
Related to the counts of Anjou, the Beauvau spent at the service of the Kings of France in the XIIIe century, and the Dukes of Lorraine3 at the end of the middle ages. In 1454, Isabeau de Beauvau (daughter of Louis de Beauvau) married Jean VIII de Bourbon, count of Vendôme ; Isabeau is the trisaieule of King Henri IV, and the Beauvau family was thus recognize the title prestigious cousin of the King, reserved for the few families with an alliance with the House of France, by Louis XIV, then officially by Louis XV in 17394.
Bertrand married four times, married successively:
“Joan of the Tower-Landry,Bertrand de Beauvau, Lord of [Pressigny]], Sillé-le-Guillaume and Briançon (1382 – 1474) was a French statesman and diplomat.”
This is the Landry-Beaumont family – Virginia’s family! Bertrand them married;
“Jeanne Blanche of Anjou (1438-1470) natural daughter of King René. This is to say Virginia’s DNA is found in King Rene’s blood.
Above are the cote of arms of Jean de Beavau (with clubs) and Bertrand. Both were members of the Order of the Crescent.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
He is the younger son of Jean III de Beauvau and Jeanne de Tigny[1]. He has an older brother, Pierre i. of Beauvau[2].
He began his career in the service of Louis II of Anjou. Its military acts, career diplomat and creditor to the Court of the Dukes of Anjou, namely Louis III of Anjou and René I of Anjou, and Kings, Charles…
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