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HELYOT, PIERRE (1660-1716)

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HELYOT, See also:PIERRE (1660-1716) , Franciscan See also:friar and historian, was See also:born at See also:Paris in See also:January 166o, of supposed See also:English ancestry. After spending his youth in study, he entered in his twenty-See also:fourth See also:year the See also:convent of the third. See also:order of St See also:Francis, founded at Picpus, near Paris, by his See also:uncle See also:Jerome Helyot, See also:canon of St See also:Sepulchre. There he took the name of Pere Hippolyte. Two journeys to See also:Rome on monastic business afforded him the opportunity of travelling over most of See also:Italy; and after his final return he saw much of See also:France, while acting as secretary to various provincials of his order there. Both in Italy and France he was engaged in See also:collecting materials for his See also:great See also:work, which occupied him about twenty-five years, L'Histoire See also:des ordres monastiques, religieux, et militaires, et des congregations seculieres, de l'un et de l'autre sexc, qui opt See also:ate etablies jusqu'd See also:present, published in 8 volumes in 1714-1721. Helyot died on the 5th of January 1716, before the fifth See also:volume appeared, but his friend Maximilien Bullot completed the edition. Helyot's only other noteworthy work is Le Chretien maurant (1695) The Histoire is a work of first importance, being the great repertory of See also:information for the See also:general See also:history of the religious orders up to the end of the 17th See also:century. It is profusely illustrated by large plates 1 Irish Parl. Debates, i. 309, 310. 2 It is generally supposed that the See also:title conferred by this patent was that of See also:Viscount Suirdale, and such is the See also:courtesy title by which the See also:heir apparent of the earls of Donoughmore is usually styled. This, however, appears to be an See also:error.

In all the three creations (See also:

barony 1783, viscountcy 17g7, earldom 180o) the title is Donoughmore of Knocklofty." In 1821 the 1st See also:earl was further created Viscount See also:Hutchinson of Knocklofty in the See also:peerage pf the See also:United See also:Kingdom. The courtesy title of the earl's eldest son should, therefore, apparently be either " Viscount Hutchinson or " Viscount Knockiofty." See G. E. C. See also:Complete Peerage (See also:London, 1890').exhibiting,the See also:dress of the various orders, and in the edition of 1792 the plates are coloured. It was translated into See also:Italian (1737) and into See also:German (1753). The material has been arranged in See also:dictionary See also:form in See also:Migne's Encyclopedia theologique, under the title "Dictionnaire des orders religieux " (4 vols., 1858).

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