Aubert (noble family)

Aubert or d'Aubert is a family of the French nobility, and a branch belongs also to the Nobility of Denmark and to the Nobility of Norway. The family originates in the town of Thionville in Lothringen, where their progenitor Jean Aubert was a merchant. Today members live in France, in Denmark, in Norway, in Sweden, and in Germany.[1]

Family coat of arms. Drawing from Norway 1820

France

The noble family of Aubert was founded in the Duchy of Lorraine with the ennoblement in 1612 of Jean Aubert, a merchant of Thionville.[2] This town was at the time in Habsburg possession and a part of the Holy Roman Empire until the its annexation by France in 1659.[3]

Denmark and Norway

Jean d'Aubert's great-great-grandson, François Jacques Xavier d'Aubert (1727–1793) emigrated to Denmark in 1752 to take up a career in the Danish army.[2] He became a Dano-Norwegian nobleman in 1776.[2] Separate branches of the family descend from his two sons, both military men: Benoni d'Aubert (1768–1832) who moved to Norway and founded the Norwegian branch of the family, and Jacques d'Aubert (1769–1844), whose son Oskar Aubert (1831-1900) was the ancestor of the Danish and German branches of the family.[4]

Prominent members

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dag Trygsland Hoelseth. "The Norwegian Nobility - survey of 1886". hoelseth.com. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Store norske leksikon: Aubert at snl.no.
  3. ↑ "Jean Aubert ennobled on June 20th, 1612". coats-of-arms-heraldry.com. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Aubert". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved June 1, 2017.

Literature


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