Nicolay (family)
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Nicolay is the name of a French family of Vivarais which came rapidly into legal prominence at the end of the 15th century. Jean Nicolay (died 1527), son of a bailli of Bourg Saint-Andeol, became councillor at the parliament of Toulouse and afterwards at the Grand Council, chancellor of the kingdom of Naples, maître des requêtes, and, finally, first president of the Chambre des Comptes of Paris (1506). This last post was filled continuously up to the Revolution by his descendants.
Antoine Chretien de Nicolay, (1712-1777) (likely Antoine, Count of Nicolaï (1712-1787)), became marshal of France in 1775. His brother, Aymar Chretien Francois Michel (1721-1769), bishop of Verdun, was first almoner and influential counsellor to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony wife of the Dauphin Louis and mother of King Louis XVI.
See A. de Boislisle, Pieces justificative pour servir d, I'histoire des premiers presidents de la Chambre des Comptes (1873), and Histoire de la maison de Nicolay (1875).
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
