Fireplace Plate With The Arms Of François Dauvet-desmarets (65 X 79 Cm)

17th century fireback with the arms of François Dauvet-Desmarets (1608-1696), son of Gaspard Dauvet, count of Marets and Isabelle Brûlart de Sillery, 37th abbot of Longuay at birth (Haute Marne) and buried in the Abbey church, advisor to the King, prior and temporal prince of Pont Saint-Esprit, Pincé and Tulette. The beginning of the construction of the Abbey dates from 1102 and following the application of the decree ordering the sale of national goods in 1790, the monks left Longuay, that is to say the loss of a work of 689 years. Plaque found in Franche-Comté, Jura. Blazon: Quarterly: 1st party: 1st checkered gold and azure, a chief Azure charged with three fleur-de-lis gold (vermandois), 2nd sable, The cross Argent charged with five shells of gules (Rouvroy de Saint-Simon), 2nd or a chevron Gules charged at the top of a fleur-de-lis Or accompanied by three alerions Azure, pecked and membered Gules (La Tremoille-Dours) , 3rd Or in La Croix Gules cantoned with sixteen alerions Azure (Montmorency), 4th Azure strewn with crossroads crisscrossed with the foot stuck in Or with the lion Argent armed and langued Or debruising ( Saarbrücken), over the whole, bandaged in gules and argent of six pieces the first band of argent charged with a lion of sand (Dauvet). Coat of arms topped with a butt under hat and cord with eight knots ending in 6 tassels. In the last picture the coat of arms of Gaspard Dauvet, father of François. Its weight is 151 kg Bibliography: PALASI P., heraldic firebacks, Gourcuff Gradenigo, Paris, page 165 N ° 283. Genealogical source: Dictionary of the nobility of François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye Desbois, 1772 volume V, p 521 You can visit our site: www.claudeaugustin.com