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See also:HOZIER, See also:PIERRE D', SEIGNEUR DE LA GARDE (1592-1660), See also:French genealogist, was See also:born at See also:Marseilles on the loth of See also:Jury 1592. In 1616 he entered upon some very extensive researches into the See also:genealogy of the See also:noble families of the See also:kingdom, in which See also:work he was aided by his prodigious memory for See also:dates, names and See also:family relationships, as well as by his profound knowledge of See also:heraldry. In 1634 he was appointed historiographer and genealogist of See also:France, and in 1641 See also:juge d'armes of France, an officer corresponding nearly to the Garter See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king-of-arms in See also:England. In 1643 he was employed to verify the claims to See also:nobility of the pages and equerries of the king's See also:household. He accumulated a large number of documents, but published comparatively little, his See also:principal See also:works being Recueil armorial See also:des anciennes maisons de Bretagne (1638); See also:Les noms, surnoms, qualitez, armes et blasons des chevaliers ct officiers de l'ordre du See also:Saint-Esprit (1634); and the genealogies of the houses of La Rochefoucauld (1654), Bournonville (1657) and Amanze (16J9). He was renowned as much for his uprightness as for his knowledge, no slight praise in a profession exposed to so many temptations to See also:fraud. He died in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:December 166o. At his See also:death his collections comprised more than 150 volumes or portfolios of documents and papers See also:relating to the genealogy of the principal families in France. Of his six sons, only two survived him. His eldest son, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Roger d'Hozier (1634–1708), succeeded him as juge d'armes, but became See also:blind in 1675, and was obliged to surrender his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office to his See also:brother.
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