Bissy (family)

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Bissy (de) a French noble family. Members of the family have been poets, generals, bishops, explorers and resistance fighters.

History of the family[]

Coat of arms[]

Arms of the Bissy family.

The coat of arms of the family is three red crayfish on a gold surface.[1]

Notable members[]

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  • Pontus de Tyard de Bissy (1521–1605), French poet.
  • (1557–1594), Governor of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs.[2]
  • Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy (1657–1737), Bishop of Toul (1687–1704) and Maux (1704–1737), Cardinal (1715), confident of King Louis XIV of France: he wrote his will and gave him the anointing of the sick before his death.[3]
  • Claude de Thiard de Bissy (1721–1810), Head of the French Royal Army during the conquest of Franche-Comté, Governor of Languedoc, member of the Académie française.[4]
  • Henri de Thiard de Bissy (1723–1794), Brother of Claude, French general.
  •  [fr] (1768–1803), French explorer who participated scientific expedition in Southern oceans.
  • Monique de Bissy (1923–2009), French resistant during World War II.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Arms of the Bissy family
  2. ^ "Portrait of Héliodore de Bissy (FR)". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  3. ^ Henri-Pons de Bissy on the Catholic Hierarchy
  4. ^ Claude de Bissy on the Académie Française (FR) Archived 2010-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Announcement of Monique de Bissy's death on the Belgian newspaper "La Libre Belgique"(FR)
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