Jeanne and Edward Vandeuil
Jeannne Horguelin, born parish of St. Sulpice in Chalons
Horguelin daughter of Claude and Marie Asselin, wife (1686) Henry Edward
Vandeuil, son of Jacques de Vandeuil and
Marie Colin.
Land and lordship of Escury, 1708.
Land and lordship of Escure is located on the territory of Champigneul the edge of Soda, 25 km west of Chalons.
A contract of 1708 gives a brief description of the area Escury:
"On March 20, 1708, Joseph Francois, lord of Montbayen, and Catherine de Bar, Dame of Vitry-la-ville, his wife, sell their land to Escury, castle, manor house, keep, backyard, garden, outbuildings, land adjoining the chapel with its ornaments, pre Hivart, two other pieces Pre Cressonnière instead said, marshes Champigneul, the supposed Course Brulées Cramant and vines. "
Joseph Francois, King's Counsel in the Paris Mint Court, held this manor of his father Philippe FRANCOIS, Treasurer of France at Chalons, who bought it in 1643.
He sold it in 1708 to Francis Joseph Cappy, for the sum of 32,000 pounds.
October 11, 1690, Edward and Jeanne Vandeuil Horguelin his wife spend a lease with the French: They rent the land and lordship of Escury, vines Cramant and everything that belongs to the French, for the space 6 years, and the sum of 1550 pounds per year. (1) Note that
December 24, 1656, Claude Bar and his wife Anne Pinteville (grandparents of Catherine de Bar) to buy Horguelin Agnes, widow of François Mathé, the stately home of Vitry-la-ville and half of the lordships of Vitry and Vouciennes, the sum of 33,200 pounds. (2)
's family Vandeuil-Horguelin.
The parish registers of Saint-Sulpice at Chalons, on the date of 18 February 1686, include the words:
"Vandeuil Henry Edward, son of Jacques de Vandeuil Colin and Mary, residing parish of St. Sulpice in Chalons , wife Joan Horguelin, daughter of Claude and the late Mary Horguelin Asselin, Parish of St. Sulpice in Chalons. (3) The
Vandeuil-Horguelin of three children born Champigneul-Champagne: Marie-Jeanne
Vandeuil, born October 7, 1691.
Peter's Vandeuil, born May 30, 1693.
Vandeuil Louis Henry, born May 5, 1695. (4) Mary Jane
Vandeuil wife of 13 December 1719 Parish St. Alpin Chalons, Raulet Etienne, son of Stephen Raulet, rector of Villeseneux school, and Jane Collard (5)
Note
Castle Escury, by Durlewanger, 1974.
"Champigneul, Marne (D 37 between Jâlons and Virtues)
Fourteen towers and a double ditch, those were the formidable defenses of the first castle Champigneul.
feudal fortress was replaced in the sixteenth century, a pleasure palace whose remains only the gate-tower of the arched entrance topped by a hipped roof ending in lantern.
At the end of the sixteenth century, the governor of St. Menehould erected on three sides of the court a new two-tiered castle of brick and chalk, extended by a flag of same style wearing a height of four-sided perforated window and flanked by a cylindrical tower with pepper and a square tower.
Opposite the second wing of the castle in return for him, leaning on the tower door. She is also extended by the Renaissance chapel roof topped by a spire structure. The wall that once closed the courtyard, as well as one of the moat and the drawbridge tower door, disappeared in the nineteenth century. Today a bridge spans the gap alone preserved.
(A. Durlewanger, "Castles Champagne, Strasbourg, 1874, page 44)
Sources
(1) Arch. Private, PH, lecture notes, Shari, 1930.
(2) Arch. Marne, E 560, Vitry-la-ville. (1656)
(3) Minitel, CG 51, Chalons, weddings. (1686)
(4) Minitel, GC51, Chalons births. (1691-1695)
(5) Arch. Private, PH, Parish St. Alpine, GG 7. (1719)
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