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Marchesan CHATEAUNEUF

"Torn in I and II gules and gold in II and III gone gold and sable, a lion crowned the second and the third to the star , all from one into the other "

Lord Turbie and Digne

Baron coaraze and Roccasparviera (Nice)

Lord Roccasparviera (Cuneo)

Lord Chateauneuf

Old and powerful family, including one member was in 1287, among the most notable families of hostages Provence, delivered after the Treaty of Oloron the King of Aragon. This family is already fire datary Worthy of a portion of the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Daniel Marchesan acquired in 1325 the fief of La Turbie , it then gave way to receive the inaugural three-quarters of the fief of Coaraze. The same Daniel was first consul in Nice in 1326, 1330 and 1339. His son Peter, by letters patent dated 10 August 1364, won the title of queen Jeanne Baron on fiefs Coaraze (1) and Roccasparviera (Nice). He was governor of Villefranche, then (1367) Captain Royal City Ventimiglia and Valley Lantosque and First Consul of Nice in 1362, 1368 and 1403. After the passage of Nice to Savoy, he was again invested his fiefs in 1399. Mathieu Marchesan was first consul in Nice in 1373. Honore, son of Peter, was provost of Sospel (1419), then First Consul of Nice in 1424 and 1427 and in 1426 he was entrusted by the people of Limone and Briga lend to them an oath of allegiance to the Duke of Savoy. His son Pierre-Antoine was the first consul in 1469 and Member Nice to the Duke Philibert II, to congratulate him on the occasion of his accession to the throne (1497). Matthew, son of the preceding, was first consul in 1489 and 1493.

In 1625, another Marchesan Mathieu, divided by will, with the approval of the sovereign, his feuds between his son, Andrew and Julius Caesar: the first, having squandered his patrimony, sold the fief of Coaraze in part to the family and Barralis partly Chioattero family, and died childless.

Julius Caesar, his marriage with Lucrezia Ferrero, had a son, Maurice, who married a Roccamaura and whose daughter Lucretia, Capello brought the family fiefs and titles of his father and mother.

Marchesan Jean-Baptiste, a cousin of the previous received September 16, 1670 inauguration of a portion of the fief of Roccasparvierra, Cuneo. He had a daughter, Margaret Anne, married to one of Monery Caylus and a son, Jean-Joseph (1761). The latter was one daughter, Anne-Victoire, which, by act of September 12, 1777 had donated the fee to his paternal cousin Bernard de Caylus, donation approved by Royal Consent on 16 April 1779.

(1) Coaraze was formerly an outbuilding of Lucéram, and since half the Xlllth century stronghold Chiabaudi. The fee returned to crown in 1325 and were then invested in Marchesan. Through acquisitions of portions of jurisdiction and also through other portions obtained an inheritance, it found itself split fee thereafter, between families Gandino, Chioattero, Cappello and Valperga. Chioaterro by inheritance, the Valperga, with approval of the sovereign 3o June 1752, sold the fief to the Piedmontese lawyer François Novelli, who won the 3oth June 1752, the title of Baron Coaraze, as the family still has our Novellis days. A portion of the strongholds of Coaraze (part of the localities of Cairau'll do and say Biggiarda) belonging to Camille Anthony Baruch, were acquired by Senator Jean-Fran De çois Orestis, October 8, 1648 and erected a century later, in fee Noble 2oth November 1772, in favor of his nephew, the Comte Jean-François.