ABOUT THE ARTIST'S FAMILY
The artist is the last descendant of the TOFFART family from the town of Lillers, a town located in the former province of Artois. In the eighteenth century, over three generations, this family held the 1st degree ennobling office of Grand Bailiff of Lillers and Lieutenant General of the Government of Arras, in conjunction with the functions of royal notary. She was of nobility in a long robe like all royal officers holding a higher office. One of the gentlemen of the province, she sat on the Provincial Council of Artois until October 1790, notably in 1788 to appoint the deputies of the nobility to the States General. United to the DENAIN DE SAINT-MARTIN and BACQUEVILLE DE LA VASSERIE families, it has illustrious filiations that date back to the High Middle Ages, mainly in Normandy. This page summarizes this genealogy with an exhaustive armorial.
Seigneuries administered or inherited by direct marriage by the TOFFART family in the eighteenth century as "Grand Bailli de Lillers, des villages et des seigneuries adjoining" (a charge equivalent to that of our current prefects):
DE COJEUL
Famille Denain de Saint-Martin vers 1720
DE CAMBLIGNEUL
Origine : Famille d'Ostrel
Famille Denain de-Saint-Martin vers 1720
DE LA TRAMERIE
Origine : famille De La Tramerie
sous tutelle
DE BUSNES
Origine : famille De Busnes
sous tutelle
DE LILLERS
Famille de Carnin jusqu'en 1734
sous tutelle
Ancestry by François Toussaint Paul TOFFART (1759-1802), King's Councillor and Lieutenant-General of the Governance of Arras, and his wife Jeanne Catherine BACQUEVILLE DE LA VASSERIE (1760-1827):
By direct cognatic ancestry and in chronological order:
DE BACQUEVILLE
DE GAMACHES
Comte de Vimieu
DE DANEMARK
Maison royale
By direct uterine kinship and in chronological order of the descent of Emma of Normandy (980-1052) of the House of the Rollonides:
DE DANEMARK
Maison royale
DE NORMANDIE
Maison ducale
D'ANGLETERRE
Maison royale
By direct collateral relationship of the HOUDETOT DE COLOMBY family in chronological order:
DE GOURGEUL
DE ROUVILLE
DE CHENU D'YVETOT
Maison princière
DE BOUBERS-BERNÂTRE
DE CAULAINCOURT
DE RONCHEROLLES
Bouteiller du
Duc de Normandie
DE LA ROCHE-GUYON
DE BACQUEVILLE
DE MONFORT-LAMAURY
Comte de Leicester
MALET DE GRAVILLE
D'YVETOT
Maison princière
D'ESTOUTEVILLE
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DE TANCARVILLE
Chambellan du Duc de Normandie
Ancestry by Maximilien Thomas Joseph TOFFART (1743-1821) Grand Bailly of Lillers, of the Villages and Adjoining Seigneuries, and his wife Augustine Ursule Josephe DENAIN DE SAINT-MARTIN (1764-1795), Lady of Cojeul and Cambligneul:
Par cousinage direct :
BOURREE DE CORBERON
Maison baronale
Maison Marquisale
LUCOTTE
Général Comte d'Empire
By descent from the BOUREE DE CORBERON family:
NOGUE DE MEYRAC
DE LABORDE
DE MEREVILLE
DUPLEIX DE
BACQUENCOURT
DE NOAILLE
Maison princière
MURAT
Maison princière
