Fireplace Plate With The Arms Of Charles De La Châtre And Elisabeth Louise De Harville (64x64

Fireback with a semi-circular pediment with spandrel corners, from the 18th century, with the alliance arms of Charles Louis de La Châtre, 1724-av1762, sgr de Malicorne (sur Sarthe), knight, Marquis de La Châtre, colonel of the Cambrésis regiment and Elisabeth Louise Jouvenel de Harville des Ursins, 1725-1794, married in Paris in 1744. Their eldest son, Claude Louis de La Châtre, 1745-1824, Count of Nansay, Duke of La Châtre, had a brilliant military career. A peer of France, he received the distinction of Officer of the Legion of Honor and that of Commander of the Order of Saint-Lazare. Charles Louis' father was Louis-Charles de la Châtre-Nancay, Count of Nançay, baron of Varennes-l'Enfant, de Bonnefontaine, de La Roche-Simon, marquis de La Châtre, lord of Malicorne, du Plessis, de Champfreau , Varennes-en-Anjou, and other places. Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Louis. Died in 1734. The coat of arms, in a cartouche surmounted by a ducal crown, is supported by a lion and a unicorn for the lordship of Malicorne. Coats of arms: La Châtre: Gules with a cross anchored in vair. De Harville: Gules, with the silver cross charged with five sable shells, coat of arms presented on the plate by simplification, because the Jouvenel des Ursins bear on the whole an escutcheon banded with silver and gules, to the chief of silver, charged with a rose gules, supported by a divide or, charged with an eel azure, wavy and placed in fess. This plaque was found in Marcq en Baroeul in the North. Its weight is 70 kg Source: - Grand armorial de France, Henri Jougla de Morenas, 1938, volume 2, p. 415/416 and volume 4, p. 278. Thanks to Ms. Christine Chazeau for her research and her pugnacity. You can visit our site: www.claudeaugustin.com