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family were a distinguished and ancient noble house in
Franche-Comté and Burgundy who numbered among their ancestors both Robert 1, King of France, and Rudolph 1, King of Germany. They were the first historically attested owners of the Turin Shroud (1353). Francois de Vergy had been a page of honour
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Francois de Vergy had two sons, the elder of whom, Claude, died in 1588. His second son, Cleriadus, succeeded his father to the title. He was also Lt
General and Governor of the County of Burgundy and in 1615 was made a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He had no children and the title and
271:" .. That He and his Family have used a Coat of Arms and Crest as from their Ancestors but not finding the same duly registered in the Heralds office .. did therefore humbly request the Favour of His Lordship's Warrant for our granting .. Arms and Crest as He and They may lawfully bear and use .."
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Ermenfroy de
Cusance was a Captain of Horse in the service of Spain in the Savoy and Flanders. He died in 1623, aged 32. The descendants of Ermenfroy, through Pierre de Cusance, left France for the New World and settled in Jamaica, originally a Spanish colony, subsequently taken by the British in
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1655. They were successful planters who over five generations built up substantial sugar works in St Thomas in the East. Their descendants left
Jamaica for England. Thomas Cussans of Amity Hall, Jamaica, was granted arms by the College of Arms in 1767. In the letters patent it states:
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The eldest son died in 1619, and so the title of Count of
Champlitte passed in 1633 to the second son, Cleriadus de Cusance. Cleriadus died aged 16 in 1635 in what has been described as âmysterious circumstancesâ. The estate of Champlitte was briefly held by his sister,
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The only remaining male line of descent is through
Ermenfroy de Cusance (1591-1623), younger son of Vaudelin-Simon de Cusance and Beatrice de Vergy. Some local histories report that Ermenfroy, the Baron of St-Julien and
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dynasty include the emperor of
Austria and kings of Bavaria, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain. The third daughter was a nun who founded the convent at Gray, and the last daughter married the
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The Counts of
Toulongeon were a distinguished noble house in Burgundy, with a long military tradition that continued with the revolutionary army, with three of them serving as Generals. A cousin, the
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upon the death of his brother Jean René, and upon his death in 1823 was sold to the town and used as the city hall. In 1907 it was classified as a historic monument and is in use today as a museum.
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was a distinguished soldier and, as a colonel of the Empire he commanded 3,000 Burgundians in the service of the king of Spain. He had two sons and four daughters. The eldest daughter,
460:. subtitled "being Miscellaneous Papers relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies,". pp. Add. MS. 27, 968, fol. 44.
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was created by letters patent on 5 September 1574 by Philip II, King of Spain, for
Francois de Vergy, son of Guillaume de Vergy the Seigneur de Champlitte.
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474:. Burke's Peerage. 1969. Cussans of Amity Hall, Jamaica.
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311:de la Chesnaye-Dubois, Francois Alexandre (1772).
457:Caribbeana, Volume III, see "Cussans of Jamaica"
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75:Jean Baptiste de Toulongeon (1677 â 1703)
111:Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
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