Parthon de Von family

The Parthon de Von family is a Belgian noble family of French origin.[1],[2] Its members rose to prominent positions in justice and diplomacy.[3]

Its lineage is traced back to Estienne Parthon, squire in France, living in 1575. In 1657, the family held the charge of lawyer in the Parliament of Paris. François Parthon was Lord of Von in 1792 and Counselor to the King.[4],[5]

An hereditary title of Knight was conceded to the family by King Leopold I of Belgium in 1845.[6] The current holder is François (b. 1964) and heir apparent Gautier Parthon de Von (b. 1996).[7]

Parthon de Von
Belgian noble family
Place of origin Berry
Founded1575
TitlesJonkheer
Knight
Distinctions
List
TraditionsRoman Catholicism
Motto
(Latin for 'Let arms yield to the toga')
Estate(s)Château de Middelheim[11]

History

Origin in Berry

The proven filiation of the Parthon family go back to the 16th century in Châteauroux,[12] where its members held some offices in the judiciary and in the duchy's Waters and Forests.[3]

Estienne Parthon, living in 1575, is lawyer in parliament and spouse of Marguerite de Billon.[13]

Michel Parthon, one of the leaders of the bourgeois militia of Châteauroux,[15] acquired the land of Von in Saint-Victor, a small town near Châteauroux.[16]

Establishment in Belgium
Château de Middelheim, 19th-century seat of the family
Portrait of the Knight Édouard Parthon de Von (1788-1877) by Jean-Urbain Guérin

The Knight Parthon de Von (1788-1877), appointed consul of France in Ostend circa 1815, attaché to the military household of the King of France, made Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 1827, he was appointed consul of France in Antwerp in 1829.[17]

After the July Revolution in 1830, he refused to serve the new liberal government and resigned as consul of France.[18] He settled near Anvers at the Château de Middelheim and he devoted himself to horticulture and writing. He published a book of fables in 1843.[18] The Belgian horticulturist Charles Morren dedicated to him the Orchiaceae Parthoni.

From his marriage on May 31, 1813 to Jeanne van de Velde:[5],[12]

  • Édouard Parthon de Von (1814-1897), married to Countess Amélie de Coopmans-Yoldi in 1849, daughter of Christian XII's chamberlain, and of Pépita de Yoldi, Countess of Castille.[19]
  • Henri Parthon de Von (1819-1892).
  • Jeanne Parthon de Von (1822-1911), married to the Baron Charles de Vivario de Ramezée and of the Holy Roman Empire.

Genealogy

The Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (1851), État présent de la noblesse du royaume de Belgique (1960), and État présent de la noblesse belge (2002) give the following filiation:[12]

  • Sulpice Parthon (1714-1793) ∞ Marie Le Pelletier de Martainville.[12]
    • François Parthon de Von (1753-1812) ∞ Andrée Thoinnet de la Turmelière.[20]
      • Knight Édouard Parthon de Von (1788-1877) ∞ Jeanne van de Velde.[12]
        • Knight Édouard Parthon de Von (1814-1897), ∞ Countess Amélie de Coopmans-Yoldi.[12]
          • Knight Alphonse Parthon de Von (1858-1932) ∞ Marie Fontaine de Ghélin.[21]
            • Knight Édouard Parthon de Von (1881-1945) Yvonne de Séjournet de Rameignies.[22]
              • Knight Étienne Parthon de Von (1916-1945) ∞ Françoise de Bonnières.[22],[7]
                • Knight François Parthon de Von (°1964) ∞ Sophie de La Peschardière.[7]
                  • Knight Gautier Parthon de Von (°1996).[7]
Portrait of the Knight Alphonse Parthon de Von (1858-1932), châtelain and burgomaster of Horrues

Nobility

An exchange dated July 19, 1843 between the French government, through its Minister of Foreign Affairs François Guizot, and the Belgian ambassador to France, the Prince of Ligne, allowed the family to obtain a confirmation and concession of nobility on January 2, 1845 by letters patent of Leopold I.[17]

Two titles of knights, transmissible by order of masculine primogeniture, were granted by royal decrees dated September 26, 1856[23] in favor of Édouard (1814-1897) and Henri Parthon de Von (1819-1892).[24] The latter died without posterity, therefore one title subsists today in favor of the elder branch.[7]

Heraldry
Coat of arms of Parthon de Von family
Coronet
Ensigned with a hereditary knight coronet, surmounted by an argent helmet
Crest
Azure, on a bend argent
Escutcheon
Three proper pine cones pendent of the first
Supporters
Collared by gold, torse and mantling azure and argent
Motto
Cedant arma togae

Sepulture

It holds a perpetual concession for its members in the Laeken Cemetery of Brussels, Belgium since the mid-19th century.[23]

Alliances

Bilhon, Catherinot (1643), Basset, Thoinnet de La Turmelière (1779), Van de Velde (1813), de Coopmans-Yoldi (1849), Cogels, Fontaine de Ghélin (1880), du Bois (1880), de Séjournet de Rameignies (1905), de La Kethulle de Ryhove (1928), de Bonnières (1962), Béchet de La Peschardière (1984), d'Eimar de Jabrun, Thélot (2012), Fayet (2013), Bernard, etc.

See also

References
  1. Molina, José Anne de (1960). État présent de la noblesse du royaume de Belgique (in French). Tradition & vie.
  2. Abbé Louis Babou, "Généalogie de la famille Parthon, de Châteauroux", 1907.
  3. Grands notables du Premier Empire : Indre, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1994, page 203.
  4. Archives départementales du Cher et de l'ancienne province du Berri E 1628
  5. Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, E. Bruylant., 1882, page 408.
  6. Félix-Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, volume 4, 1852.
  7. Coomans de Brachène, Oscar (1999). "État présent de la noblesse belge". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  8. Journal officiel, 21 décembre 1919. Gallica
  9. L. Verriest, Un livre de raison des Séjournet, notable lignée féodale du pays d'Ath, in: Annales du Cercle d'archéologie de Soignies, 1946.
  10. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000035980015
  11. Bulletin de la Société royale belge de géographie, Volume 10, 1886, page 667.
  12. Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, Volume 5, 1851, page 248.
  13. Joël Rilat, Ces messieurs de Nantes, Lulu.com, tome 1, page 57.
  14. Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales de l'Indre, 1901, page 12.
  15. Docteur Fauconneau Dufresne Histoire de Déols et de Châteauroux, volume 2, 1999, page 674.
  16. Simonin, Jean-Pascal (2006), "Edmond Charlemagne, député de l'Indre, et les émeutes frumentaires de Châteauroux en 1829", Pour une histoire sociale des villes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 265–278, doi:10.4000/books.pur.25443, ISBN 978-2-7535-0290-1
  17. Poplimont, Ch (1866). La Belgique héraldique: recueil historique, chronologique, généalogique et biographique complet de toutes les maisons nobles reconnues de la Belgique (in French). Carion.
  18. Charles Poplimont, La Belgique héraldique, volume 8, 1866, page 266.
  19. The Royalty, Peerage and Aristocracy of the World. Annuaire de France. 1967.
  20. Charles Poplimont, La Belgique héraldique,, tome 8, 1866, page 266.
  21. Betz, Fernand de baron Ryckman de (1957). Armorial général de la noblesse belge: orné des armoiries figurées dans les lettres patentes originales (in French). H. Dessain.
  22. Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (in French). Decq.
  23. Liste générale des familles nobles, légalement reconnues en Belgique (in French). Van Merlen. 1856.
  24. Arrêté royal approuvant la liste des personnes auxquelles des lettres-patentes ... (in French). Staatsblad. 1882.

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