Julius de Berry

Julius de Berry may have been a minor French nobleman, natural from either Normandy or Bourbonnais and a citizen of Auvers (i.e. Antwerp) who was knighted by the Emperor and King of France, Charles Simplex, in 916 for a gift of ripe strawberries. Legend has it that Julius' strawberries were so succulent, that King Charles granted him a coat of arms, which comes down to the present as the arms of the Scottish Clan Fraser, who are traditionally believed, amongst other theories, to descend from Julius. Legend mentions his grandfather's name was Chantilly.