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The Jouffroy d'Abbans family is a subsisting family of the French nobility originating in Franche-Comté. It is the oldest branch of the Jouffroy family and one of the only two remaining branches. The Jouffroy d'Abbans family is considered to be one of the oldest and illustrious families in the world, being particularly allied with many royal and ducal houses from all over Europe.

History and origin
According to historians, the origins of the Jouffroy d'Abbans family go back to Count Geoffroi, Lord of Ria, the former capital of the Spanish Cerdagne which was reunited with the Kingdom of France in 1659 by Louis XIV through the Treaty of the Pyrenees. The latter was created as the first Christian Count of the West by Charlemagne and the Third Count of Barcelona by King Louis the Debonair in 830.

The eldest branch owned the whole of Catalonia as well as the County of Provence which they received in 1113 by marriage and which raised the family to the throne of Aragon in 1137, which at the time included the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula, born in 1035 from the union of the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorce, and disappeared in 1707 with its integration into the kingdom of Spain by the decrees of Nueva Planta.

It is not known in what year the younger branch settled in Franche-Comté.

The name of Jouffroy d'Abbans is attested to the archives of Besançon in a will dated 1347. His filiation followed dates back to the beginning of the 15th century with Perrin Jouffroy, from Luxeuil, who settled in 1435 in Besançon where he made a considerable fortune. . He will participate in the struggle of the City against its archbishop, which will earn him a temporary excommunication. Co-governor of Besançon, he was ennobled by letters from the Duke of Burgundy in 1444.

Indeed, the archives of the city of Besançon attest to up to 17 members of the Jouffroy d'Abbans family among the governors elected by this city.

Perrin Jouffroy was the father of Cardinal Jean Jouffroy, Bishop of Arras and Albi, ambassador, advisor to King Louis XI, and appointed Cardinal by Pope Pius II, and of Pâris Jouffroy who was at the origin of several branches that gave the families of Jouffroy-Gonsans (remaining), Jouffroy d'Uzelles (extinct in 1785), Jouffroy-Novillars (extinct in 1760) and Jouffroy-d'Abbans (remaining).

The Jouffroy d'Abbans family was created by Jacques de Jouffroy, Lord of Marchaux and Abbans, second son of Pâris Jouffroy, who in 1484 married Anne de Joux, last descendant of his house and heir to the seigneury and the castle of Abbans, who passed into the Jouffroy family. Since that time Abbans Castle has remained in the lineage of the Jouffroy d'Abbans family.

The Jouffroy d'Abbans family counted many officers who over the centuries distinguished themselves in the career of arms, first in the service of the House of Habsbur g, rulers of the County of Burgundy and then kings of France.

Numerous members of this family were knights of the Order of Saint George and of the Order of Saint Louis.

During the defensive siege of Lille in autumn 1708, Claude François de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1682-1771) distinguished himself alongside Marshal de Boufflers, also, by letter patent of May 1709 registered on March 27, 1715, Louis XIV erected the land of Claude François in marquisate.

Branch fixed in Brazil in 1820
At the beginning of the 19th century, Jean-Charles-Gabriel de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1788-1820), third son of the Marquis Claude François Dorothée de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1751-1832), inventor of steamboats, married N. Marmillon, daughter of the craftsman of Abbans who had helped her father in his constructions and embarked in Havre on October 11, 1820 to seek fortune in Brazil. He died in Fejoca in 1826 at the age of 38, leaving his son Louis (born in 1817), then aged 9, in the care of his wife who survived him for twenty years in Brazil "having nothing to live on". In 1894 his son, Luiz de Jouffroy d'Abbans was then living "in the deepest misery" in Villaciosa, in the province of Bahia. It is not known whether he had any descendants.

Branch fixed in the United Kingdom in 1940
Descendants bearing the name of Jouffroy d'Abbans settled in England in 1941 with Jacqueline de Jouffroy d'Abbans (born 20.01.1918 and died in 1996 in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England) daughter of the Marquis Marie Joseph Albert de Jouffroy d ' Abbans (born in 1874) and Clémentine Dièghe.

Jacqueline de Jouffroy d'Abbans was the mother of Jean Williams Charles de Jouffroy d'Abbans (born in 1941, died in 1992 in Hampshire, England), who had two daughters: Anoushka Jacqueline de Jouffroy d'Abbans (born in 1976) and Rosanna Katharine de Jouffroy d'Abbans (born in 1978), who nowadays bear the name Jouffroy d'Abbans in England.

Jacqueline de Jouffroy d'Abbans then married in 1952, Major Thomas Sidney Astell, including Isabelle Jacqueline Laline Astell (born in 1955 in Brussels), married in 1982 to Merlin Sereld Victor Gilbert Hay, 24th count of Erroll.

Personalities



 * Cardinal Jean Jouffroy, (1412-1473). First chaplain to the Duke of Burgundy who entrusted him with several embassies including that to Pope Nicolas V, he was appointed Abbot of Luxeuil in 1450, Bishop of Arras in 1453, and legate in France of Pope Pius II in 1459. Minister of King Louis XI around 1460, he was created cardinal in 1461 and appointed bishop of Albi in 1462. He became abbot of Saint-Denis in 1464. On his death his body was embalmed and buried in the cathedral of Albi.


 * Hélion Jouffroy († September 29, 1529), nephew of the above-mentioned, clerk of the diocese of Besançon and doctor in civil law, canon and great cantor of Notre-Dame cathedral in Rodez, dated November 21, 1467, then provost of the Sainte cathedral -Cécile d'Albi and the collegial chapter of Saint-Salvi d'Albi; Heir to a good part of his uncle's fortune, he founded the Carthusian convent of Rodez from 1511, then that of the new order of the Announcements from 1515.


 * Claude François Dorothée marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1751-1832), inventor of steam navigation. First lieutenant in the Bourbon-Infanterie regiment, an altercation with the Comte d'Artois in 1772 earned him a lettre de cachet to be imprisoned for two years at Fort Royal on Île Sainte-Marguerite (Lérins archipelago). From his cell, he observes the passage of the galleys, this observation would be at the origin of his research for the application of steam to navigation. Naval architect and engineer, he was the inventor and builder of the first steamboats, with the Palmipède (1776 in Baume les Dames), the Pyroscaphe (1783 in Lyon) and the Charles-Philippe (1816 in Paris-Bercy). A street in the 17th arrondissement of Paris as well as a rue de Lyon bear his name in his honor. Two statues which represent him observing the course of the water are located on the Quai du Doubs and the Pont Battant in Besançon.


 * Claude Balthazar count of Jouffroy d´Abbans (1757-1792), younger brother of the previous one. Bodyguard of the king, he was charged with arresting Cardinal de Rohan during the affair of the queen's necklace.


 * Achille François marquis de Jouffroy d´Abbans (1785-1859), son of Claude François Dorothée de Jouffroy d'Abbans. Engineer in the maritime forces of the Kingdom of Italy, director for two years of the lead mines of Vice Novo then war commissioner of the 2nd army corps in Udine, he returned to France in 1814 and followed Louis XVIII to Ghent in 1815 and appointed him Knight of the Legion of Honor. Director of the "Gazette de France" from 1816 to 1823 and author of the "Fastes de l'anarchie" on the Revolution, after the fall of Charles X, he retired to London, where he published the newspaper "La Légitimite", the publication of which was prohibited in France. He then gave up politics and returned to France where he patented several inventions, including in 1843 a railway system with a third rack rail. In 1856, the Sardinian government asked him for a railway project across the Alps by Mont Cenis, he went to Italy for this, but died in Turin on December 1, 1859.


 * Alphonse comte de Jouffroy d´Abbans (1823-1899), grand nephew of Claude François Dorothée, general and orderly officer of Napoleon III.


 * Count Charles Joseph de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1820-1903), grand nephew of Claude François Dorothée, deputy of Doubs from 1889 to 1897.

Coat of arms
From the start, the family wears a six-piece gold and sand fascé, the first sand fascé loaded with two silver trefoil crosses. These weapons are found in the illuminated manuscripts of Cardinal Jouffroy and in his funeral chapel in Albi Cathedral. In the 17th century, we find the same coat of arms on the tomb of Charles de Saint-Mauris (died in 1659) in Saint-Hippolyte, appearing among those of its eight districts [citation needed] and on the token of the co-governor Pierre-François de Jouffroy de Novillars in 1666 [better source needed].

The coat of arms (gold and sand fascé) appears in the Baverel armorial (1780) and in the armorials of L. Suchaux (1878) and J. Gauthier (1911), as well as on many plaques of fireplaces in Abbans, Nantey, etc..

Possessions

 * Seigneuries de Marchaux, d'Abbans, d’Osselle, de Byans, de Villars Saint Georges.
 * Maison du cardinal Jouffroy à Luxeuil (Haute-Saône)
 * La Tour des échevins à Luxeuil (Haute-Saône)
 * Hôtel de Jouffroy à Albi
 * Hôtel du Bouteiller à Besançon (Doubs)
 * Château d'Abbans (Doubs)

Alliances
The main alliances of the family de Jouffroy d’Abbans are : de Joux, d’Occors, de Jouffroy-Gonsans, de Chassagne, Poutier de Saône, Mouchet de Battefort de laubespin, de Pons de Rennepont, Pingon de Vallier, de Gestas de Lespéroux, de Prélange, de Scépeaux, de Boutechoux de Chavannes, de La Forest-Divonne, Arnoulx de Pirey, de Moréal de Brévans, Jacque de Mainville, Perrenot du Breuil, de Costart, Maire du Poset, de Broé, Pâris de Bollardière, Franchet de Rans, de Romeuf, d’Orlier de Saint-Innocent, de Scey-Montbéliard, Desbiez de Saint-Juan, de Buyer-Mimeure, Faget de Casteljau, Leclerc de Pulligny.

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