Branch of
Lords of the La Noue - Briord
IX
Maurice de La Noue
first of the name, third son of Olivier I, Squire of Bertrand de Dinan
in 1414,Lord of
Guibretoux and
Toulan, General Receiver of Brittany in 1419, deceased before 1451. He
had a son: Maurice de
La Noue II, who
follows, Jean author of the Counts de Vair that will follow, Guillaume
and Colas.
X
Maurice II, Lord de
La Noue, noble Squire, after the death of Jeanne, succeeded his father
in the succession
of the Guibretoux
grounds, for which he gave an oath in 1453. In 1459, became Adviser to
the Duke of Brittany. Husband of Jeanne
de Camé, daughter of Payen de Carné and Raoulette Mello born around
1420 *. Deceased in 1463. Survived by:
Olivier de La Noue, who follows, and Guillaume General Treasurer of
Brittany in 1459. (*
Source: Alain de
Carné)
XI
Olivier II, Lord de
La Noue, of Guibretoux, Nivardière, Knight gave oath for the ground de
La Noue in 1463.
Married Jeanne,
daughter of Guy II of Laval, Chamberlain of the King CharlesVII.
Adviser to the Duke of Bretagne. Deceased in 1481.
Interred in Fresnay. Father of Jean-François who follows, Francoise,
N...,
XII
Jean-François de La
Noue, Knight, Lord of the aforesaid place, in 1481 qualified noble
Squire, of noble and
powerful Lord,
distinguished himself in the Italian wars around 1510, along with the
Marshals of Rieux and Rohan-Gié, and other Lords. In
1519, by official decree, he was given permission of Tanneguy Sauvage,
Baron de Retz, to build to the best of his
ability on the grounds de La Noue, a Castle and a massive house
surrounded by ditches and a drawbridge with all
the rights of châtellenie. This permission was granted in consideration
of his services, for the nobility, and for
purposes of increasing the Seigniory de La Noue. He married Madeleine
de Chateaubriant, Lady of Chavannes,
daughter of Rene, Count of Casant, and Helene d' Estouteville. He
deceased in 1547. They had the following children:
XIII
François de La Noue
II, Knight, Lord of Briord and the aforesaid place, Chavannes, la
Roche-Bernard, Loroux-
Bottereau. In 1537,
he finalized a formal testament in Nantes. In 1552, his wife,
Bonaventure l'Épervier, Lady of Briord tutored his
children: François III, followed by Marguerite Claudine, who married,
in 1556, Jacques le Porc de la Porte, Baron de
Vézin in Anjou.
XIV
François de La Noue
III, high and powerful Lord, born in Nantes in 1531, called " Arm of
Iron ", because he had his left arm
severed during the battle of Fontenay, in Poitou. He had a left arm
made of iron. Captain of fifty armed men, memorialist
and writer. With the passing reform, he remained a prisoner of the
Spanish for five years contemplating his "
Discours Politiques et Militaires " during 1587. He wanted to be
remembered as "a great man engaged in wellfare
rather than a great man of war. " (Henri de Navarre). During the wars
of the League, he commanded
the Army
of Prince de Dombes. On 30 June 1591, he led the royal army to Quintin.
Later, about 4 July
after a skirmish
with light horses and arquebusiers of the Duke of Mercoeur, the army
regained Quintin. Then it departed for
Lamballe. On 18 July, Captain François de La Noue was wounded by a shot
of arquebus while inspecting
the
Castle of Lamballe defenses. He died from his wounds in Moncontour on 4
August 1591. He also had the reputation
of being a great general, skilled negotiator, an excellent policy
maker, a good citizen and a virtuous individual. He was
married to Marguerite de Téligny, daughter of Louis, who was mortally
wounded in the St.
Bartholomew's Day
Massacre, and also to Louise de Coligny. The latter remarried Guillaume
de Nassau, Prince d'Orange.
François
had as a descendant:
1- Odet de La Noue,
who follows.
2- Theophile de La
Noue who took to the name of Téligny after the death of Claude de
LaNoue his nephew.
He married Anne
Hatte, from the Beauce family. He had two daughters named Catherine and
Angelique.
3-Jeanne married
the Marquis Goyon de la Moussaye. They did not have any children. Here
there is some
disagreement among
historians since it appears that it is Claudine de La Noue who married
Charles Goyon on 5
January 1598. The
latter was the widow of his cousin Claudine du Chastel. He was the
grandfather of Amaury III, Marquis de la
Moussaye who was the purchaser of Colurté de Quintin in 1638 and
builder of the current castle of Quintin. A daughter
was born after Charles 's death who deceased at an early age. Her
godfather François Coligny was Count de
Quintin.
4. Marie, married:
l) Baron de Chambray; 2) Joachim de Bellengreville, Lord de Neuville,
Knight of the Commands of the King and
Great Provost of France; 3) In September 1622, in Pons de
Laurières-Thémines de Cardaillac, Marquis de
Thémines, Marshal of France had a second marriage.
5- Anne who married
1) David, Baron of Musse and Ponthus, Banneret of Brittany; and 2)
Jacques, Marquis de
Cordouan, Lord of
Nimbré, and Maine.
XV
Odet de La Noue, (
. .-1622) served with distinction in the employ of the King Henri IV
and married Marie de
Lannoy, branch of
Lesdain, famous House of Flanders. Their descendant:
XVI
Claude de La Noue,
grandson of "Iron Arm", Knight, Lord de La Noue, Colonel of the
Regiment de La Noue
in 1650, gentleman
of the Sleeve of Gaston, brother of the King Louis XIII, married to
Madeleine de Saint-
Georges de Verac
Marshal of the armies of the King in 1648. His descendant:
XVII
Marie de La Noue,
married with Léonore-Antoine de Saint-Simon in 1644, Marquis de
Courtomer in
Normandy whose
descendants of La Noue-Briord were without posterity.
(End of the lineage
includes Arm-of-Iron)