Amelot family

Amelot family Famille Amelot
Noble family
Country	France
Current region	Orléanais
Place of origin	Orléanais
Founded	1500 (1500)
Historic seat	Château du Gué-Péan, Monthou-sur-Cher
Titles	List Seigneur Vicomte Comte Baron Marquis
Distinctions	Ennobled by lettres patentes in 1580, at Blois
Traditions	List French Monarchy Armée des Princes Bourbon Restoration July Monarchy Second Empire French Republic
Motto	Est illis igneus ardor (Their ardor is of fire)
Estate(s)	List Bisseuil Brunelles Carnetin Chaillou Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe Châtillon-sur-Indre Combronde Gournay-sur-Aronde Le Gué-Péan Juvardeil Mauregard Le Mesnil-Amelot Nanteuil-lès-Meaux Neufvy-sur-Aronde Saint-Julien-de-l'Escap Varaize
Properties	Château du Gué-Péan (Monthou-sur-Cher) Hôtel Amelot de Chaillou (3e arrondissement de Paris) Hôtel Amelot de Gournay (7e arrondissement de Paris)
Dissolution	1900 (1900)
Cadet branches	List de Bisseuil (extinct) de Chaillou (extinct) de Gournay (extinct) du Gué-Péan (extinct) de Mauregard (extinct) de Neuvy (extinct) de Varaize (extinct)

The Amelot family originated in Orléans, France, and was prominent for producing numerous magistrates and holding significant offices. The family formed alliances with leading families of the Nobles of the Robe and several prominent noble houses of the kingdom.

Senior branch

• Jacques Amelot (1504 – 7 March 1579) was a French jurist. The son of an alderman of Orléans, he moved to Paris during the reign of Francis I, where he served as an advocate at the Parlement of Paris. Known for his extensive legal practice, he later acquired the lordship of Carnetin. He died on 7 March 1579. His eldest son and executor arranged for his burial in the church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, where two epitaphs were installed. Amelot married Jeanne Vialart, sister of Antoine Vialart, Archbishop of Bourges. She was the daughter of Jean Vialart, an advocate at the Parlement of Paris who later became president of the Parlement of Rouen, and of Jeanne Poncet, his second wife. The couple had at least seven children:
  • Jean Amelot;
  • Claude Amelot, advocate at the Parlement of Paris;
  • Charles Amelot (1550 – August 1628), advocate at the Parlement of Paris, auditor at the Chambre des comptes in Paris in 1579, and master of the same institution from 1585. He died in August 1628 at the age of 78. He married Marie Le Maître in 1579, daughter of Jean Le Maître, advocate and president of the Parlement of Paris, and Nicole Habert. Marie Le Maître died in January 1630 at the age of 69. Their children included:
    • Charles Amelot, lord of Laumoïau, first Maître d'hôtel to the king and Grand Master of Waters and Forests in Champagne, who died in October 1653, apparently without issue.
  • François Amelot, advocate, who died of the plague in 1585.Jean and Charles Amelot were sued by churchwardens for assaulting priests from Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs who came to administer last rites to their brother François, "sick with the plague," in November 1585. François had made a will donating 400 écus to the church, which his brothers forcibly took. The lawsuit was not concluded. In 1597 and 1616, Jean and Charles each acquired a chapel in the church (Arch. nat. MC/ET/IX/115).</ref>
  • Étienne Amelot, a minor at the time of the succession in 1579, as was his sister Marie;
  • Marie Amelot (born 1562), who married Étienne Tonnelier, lord of Conty, in 1579.Their marriage contract, dated 4 June 1579, is preserved at the National Archives (MC/ET/LXXXVII/47, folio 245). Marie was a minor, and her eldest brother, Jean Amelot, arranged the contract.</ref> She died shortly after.Étienne Tonnelier remarried in April 1580.</ref>
  • Jacques Amelot, prior of Sainte-Opportune at Moussy-le-Neuf, prior of Notre-Dame de Gournay-sur-Marne,See notarial act of 24 July 1576, National Archives MC/ET/IX/86.</ref> and later prior of Saint-Martin-des-Champs. He was assassinated by Huguenots in Senlis in 1592.In the 1579 succession of Jacques I Amelot among his six children, Jacques II Amelot does not appear in the numerous notarial acts preserved at the National Archives of France. Religious figures often do not appear in family divisions, as they are disinherited upon entering orders.</ref>
• Jean Amelot, lord of Carnetin, advocate at the Parlement of Paris, appointed Maître des requêtes in January 1573, President of Inquiries in 1580, and ennobled in 1581. In 1589, he was imprisoned and exiled by the Catholic League, but later became a Councillor of State. He died in 1600. He married Marie de Saint-Germain, daughter of Jean de Saint-Germain, a Parisian bourgeois, and Agnès Hervieu. Widowed, she later married Michel de Marillac, future garde des sceaux. Jean Amelot and Marie de Saint-Germain were buried with an epitaph in a chapel acquired in 1597 at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs. Their children included:
  • Jacques Amelot, founder of the Mauregard-Amelot branch;
  • A daughter who married Jacques Prévôt, lord of Saint-Cyr and maître des requêtes of the King’s Household.

Mauregard-Amelot branch

• Jacques Amelot, lord of Carnetin, Mauregard-Amelot, and Le Mesnil-Amelot, was appointed councillor at the Parlement of Paris on 17 December 1597 and became president of the First Chamber of Requests on 19 March 1608. He married Charlotte Girard, daughter of Nicolas Girard, lord of Tillay, superintendent of the household and affairs of the Constable de Montmorency, formerly royal councillor and treasurer of the Swiss troops, and of Lucrèce de Merle. They had:
  • Marie Amelot, baptized on 5 February 1609, who married César d’Aumont, marquis of Clairvaux and Nolay, viscount of La Guerche, governor of Touraine, and seneschal of Châtellerault, on 2 March 1628. Widowed on 20 April 1661, she died in Paris on 22 October 1675;
  • Charlotte, baptized on 31 October 1610, who died in infancy;
  • Élisabeth Amelot, baptized on 29 July 1613;
  • Anne Amelot, baptized on 4 September 1620, who married Charles Maignart, lord of Bernières and other estates, councillor and commissioner of Requests at the Palace, later maître des requêtes and Councillor of State, on 8 May 1638. She died in Paris on 12 July 1653.
• Jacques Amelot, lord and marquis of Mauregard-Amelot, Le Mesnil-Madame Rance, La Planchette, Carnetin, Beaulieu, Nanteuil-lès-Meaux, and other estates, was baptized on 23 June 1602. He was appointed councillor at the Parlement of Paris on 2 July 1627, maître des requêtes of the King’s Household on 8 January 1633, president of the Grand Conseil and ordinary royal councillor, and first president of the Court of Aids in Paris on 9 February 1643. He resigned this office in favor of his eldest son on 29 February 1668 and died in Paris on 11 April 1668. He married Élisabeth du Près on 29 April 1632, daughter of Barthélemy du Pré, treasurer-general of France at Moulins, and Élisabeth Martin. She died at the convent of the Feuillantines on 22 November 1690. They had:
  • Jacques-Charles Amelot, marquis of Mauregard, Le Mesnil-Amelot, La Planchette, and other estates, baptized on 27 April 1633. Appointed to the Grand Conseil at the age of 21, he later succeeded his father as first president of the Court of Aids by letters issued at Compiègne on 25 August 1656 and took office on 29 February 1668. He was commendatory abbot of Saint-Nicolas d’Hermières (Archdiocese of Paris), Notre-Dame des Alleus (Archdiocese of Poitiers), and prior of Notre-Dame de la Daurade (Archdiocese of Toulouse). He died unmarried on 6 January 1671;
  • César Amelot, who died young;
  • Charles Amelot, marquis of Combronde and Mauregard-Amelot, baron of Salvert, and lord of Le Mesnil and La Planchette, baptized on 31 October 1644. In 1668, he became royal councillor-almoner and commendatory abbot of the Abbey of Hermières, succeeding his brother. He was appointed councillor at the Parlement of Paris in the Third Chamber of Inquiries on 17 February 1673 and became president of that chamber on 17 March 1687. He resigned his ecclesiastical benefices and married Antoinette de Brion on 27 October 1692, daughter of Jean de Brion, marquis of Combronde and baron of Salvert, councillor at the Parlement of Paris, and Anne-Marie de la Barde. He died without issue at his château of Salvert in Auvergne on 5 November 1726.

Chaillou branch

• Denis Amelot de Chaillou, lord of Chaillou, Bisseuil, Beaulieu, and other estates, was a French magistrate and royal administrator. He served as councillor at the Grand Conseil, was appointed maître des requêtes on 13 November 1610, and held successive intendancies at Limoges (1616) and in Saintonge, Aunis, Poitou, and La Rochelle (1623). He resigned as dean of the maîtres des requêtes in 1651 and died on 7 February 1655. He married twice: first, on 12 September 1604, Marguerite du Drac, daughter of Adrien du Drac, lord of Mareuil, and Marie Le Prévost; and secondly, Louise de L’Hôpital, widow of Henri de Vaudétar and daughter of Louis de L’Hôpital, marquis of Vitry. From his first marriage he had the following children:
  • Jean-Baptiste Amelot de Bisseuil;
  • Jacques Amelot de Chaillou;
  • Marie Amelot de Chaillou, who married Charles de Béon de Luxembourg-Brienne. Widowed in 1671, she died in Paris on 5 January 1702 at the age of 97.
• Jean-Baptiste Amelot de Bisseuil, viscount of Bisseuil (born 1612), was appointed councillor at the Grand Conseil in 1635, maître des requêtes in 1642, and received letters of honor in 1664. He supervised the construction of the Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil in Paris between 1657 and 1660, designed by the architect Pierre Cottard. He died in Paris on 15 April 1688 at the age of 76. He married Charlotte Brûlart, daughter of Denis Brûlart, marquis de Meursanges|la Borde, who died on 6 January 1688. Their children included:
  • Denis-Nicolas-Anne, baptized in 1655, who died at the age of eleven months;
  • Marguerite, born in 1646;
  • Jeanne Amelot de Bisseuil, baptized in 1653, who became a nun at the Abbaye Saint-Antoine-des-Champs;
  • Marguerite-Françoise Amelot de Bisseuil, who married Charles de Bourgoing, marquis of Faulin, in 1676 and was widowed in 1699;
  • Charlotte-Angélique Amelot de Bisseuil, who married Jean-Baptiste du Deffend, marquis de La Lande, in 1687.
• Jacques Amelot de Chaillou, lord of Chaillou, was appointed councillor at the Grand Conseil in 1642 and maître des requêtes in 1651. He later became Councillor of State and dean of the maîtres des requêtes. He died in Paris on 19 December 1699 at the age of 82. He married Marie-Valence Lescuyer in 1655, daughter of Pierre Lescuyer, lord of Chaumontel. She died on 26 September 1714. Their son was:
  • Denis-Jean-Michel Amelot de Chaillou.
• Denis-Jean-Michel Amelot de Chaillou, lord of Chaillou, Châtillon-sur-Indre, and Les Pruneaux (born 1666), was appointed councillor at the Parlement of Paris in 1687, maître des requêtes in 1690, and served as intendant of commerce from 1708 to 1715. He commissioned the construction of the Hôtel Amelot-de-Chaillou at 78 rue des Archives in Paris, designed by the architect Pierre Bullet. He died in 1746. He married Philberte de Barillon d’Amoncourt in 1688, daughter of Jean-Paul de Barillon, lord of Amoncourt. Their children included:
  • Denis-Michel;
  • Valence, baptized in 1690 and died in 1694;
  • Marie-Bonne, born in 1693.
• Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou, marquis of Combronde, baron of Châtillon-sur-Indre, lord of Chaillou (born 1689), was a commander of the royal orders, minister of state from 1737, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1737 to 1744. He also served as superintendent of posts, was elected to seat 10 of the Académie française in 1727, and was an honorary member of the French Academy of Sciences. He died on 7 May 1749. He married twice: first, in 1716, Anne-Marie-Gertrude Pauline Bombarda; and secondly, in 1726, Anne de Vougny. From his first marriage he had:
  • Anne-Philiberte Amelot de Chaillou, who married Jean-Baptiste de Fleuriau de Morville.

From his second marriage:

• • Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou;
  • Marie-Philiberte Amelot de Chaillou, who married Armand de Caumont de La Force in 1742;
  • Marie-Louise Amelot de Chaillou, who married Claude-Thomas-Sybille-Gaspard-Nicolas-Dorothée de Roncherolles in 1752.
• Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou, marquis of Chaillou (baptized 1732), pursued a senior administrative career. He served as advocate at the Châtelet (1751), maître des requêtes (1753), president of the Grand Conseil (1754), intendant of Burgundy (1764), intendant of finances (1774), and Secretary of State for the King’s Household (1776). He was appointed grand officer of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1781 and became an honorary member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1777. He died in the Luxembourg Prison in Paris on 20 April 1795. He married Marie Françoise Jeanne Legendre de Lormoy in 1759. Their children included:
  • Justine Amelot de Chaillou, canoness;
  • Jeanne-Marie Amelot de Chaillou, who married Henri-François, marquis de La Ferté-Sénectère, in 1780.
• Antoine-Léon Anne Amelot de Chaillou, marquis of Chaillou (baptized 1760), was councillor at the Parlement of Paris in 1778, maître des requêtes in 1779, intendant of Burgundy from 1783 to 1790, and later receiver-general of the Rouen hospices. He died in Rouen on 17 July 1824. He married Marie-Madeleine Fontaine de Biré in 1784 and, secondly, Monique-Euphrasie Du Rollet in 1794. From these marriages descended:
  • Antoine-Victor Amelot de Chaillou, (born 1784), marquis of Chaillou, who married Céline Chagot de Fays in 1818 and died in 1846. They had:
    • Antoine-Victor Amelot de Chaillou, (1819–1881), who married Marie Louise Mathilde Amé de Saint-Didier in 1842; their children were Céline (1843–1890), Jacques-Hippolyte-Victor (1844–1911), Marguerite (1848–1883), and Catherine, wife of Napoléon, 3rd duke of Tascher de la Pagerie;
  • Antoine Amelot de Chaillou (1793–1861), a career military officer, knight of the Legion of Honour (1832), and director of the Loiret poorhouse.
  • Léon-Victor Amelot de Chaillou;
• Léon-Victor Amelot de Chaillou, count of Chaillou (1794–1868), was a tax collector. He married Agathe Virginie Trouillet de la Chaux de Mainville in 1823. They had:
  • Léon-Édouard Amelot de Chaillou, viscount of Chaillou (born 1832), who married Marie-Rosalie-Alphonsine-Emmanuelle du Hallay-Coëtquen in 1866 and pursued a diplomatic career from 1864 to 1892.

Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe branch

• Denis-Michel Amelot de Chaillou (born 1696 – died 1773) was a French nobleman and military officer. A brother of Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou, he held the titles of marquis of Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe, Juvardeil, and Gué-Péan. He served as captain in the Nicolaï Dragoon Regiment in 1738, later attaining the rank of colonel, and was appointed a knight of the Order of Saint-Louis. In 1738, he married Élisabeth de Cohon, who inherited the barony of Châteauneuf. This barony was elevated to a marquisate by King Louis XV in 1750. The couple had the following children:
  • Sébastien-Michel Amelot (1741–1829), Bishop of Vannes, who emigrated in 1791 and died in 1829;
  • René-Michel Amelot du Gué-Péan, marquis of Gué-Péan and Châteauneuf, who emigrated in 1791 and died in 1813. He married Marie Marguerite Émilie de Luker in 1787. They had:
    • Denis-Edmond-René-Xavier Amelot, marquis of Gué-Péan, who sold the family properties in 1812 and died in 1832.

See also

• Nobles of the Robe
• Parlement of Paris
• Master of Requests (France)
• Grand Conseil
• Order of the Holy Spirit
• Académie Française

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