The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire And Roche Court: Hereditary Masters of ...
The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire And Roche Court: Hereditary Masters of ...
Burrows, Montagu, 1819-1905
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We cannot bridge the gulf with names and dates; and until we can, the present House of De Brocas de Nauze must be content with the general assertion of antiquity claimed for it in the ' NobiUaire^* and with the moral cer- tainty that the inability to make more accurate claims proceeds only from the failure to find documents which must once have existed and may yet be discovered. There are two notices before 1495 which might perhaps be followed further. A William de Brocas founded in 1461 a chap...el in the church of St. Seurin de Byons, and an Arnaud de Brocas makes one of a body of men-at-arms and archers reviewed at Nantes by the Sieur D'iUbret on April 16, 1491. Here we have a William and an Amauld de Brocas, one of whom is a man of substance enough to found a chapel, and the other would seem to be a vassal of the Sieur D'Albret. No lineage has, however, been as yet traced in connection with these personages. But in 1495 the WUliam de Brocas from whom the present House is distinctly traced comes on the stage as one of Charles VIII.'s newly raised Guards, and is styled in the * Nobiliaire * ' Noble Guilhem de Brocas.* The document by which his date and rank is ascertained is in the possession of the Comte de Brocas, almost illegible but perfectly genuine.
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