House of Ficquelmont

de Ficquelmont
Noble House
de Ficquelmont Family, Coat of Arms
Country	Duchy of Lorraine Kingdom of France Austrian Empire Kingdom of Belgium French Republic
Titles	Count of Ficquelmont (Austria)]] Count in Netherland (1822) Count of Ficquelmont de Vyle in Belgium (1855)

The Ficquelmont family is a noble family from Lorraine dating back to the 14th century whose filiation is established with Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386.

This family produced different branches in France, Austria, Belgium, and became extinct in 1948 in the male line with Louis-Charles de Ficquelmont de Vyle and in the female line in 1991 with countess Ghislaine de Ficquelmont de Vyle.

The origins of the Ficquelmont Family is the lordship of Ficquelmont (currently Thumerville) in Lorraine, near Briey

The Ficquelmont family is known since 1138, with Gérard de Ficquelmont who gave a donation in 1138 but its filiation is established without doubts only since Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386.

According to the genealogist Charles Poplimont, who wrote a genealogy of the de Ficquelmont family in La Belgique Héraldique (1866), Henri de Ficquelmont, was married with Marie le Loup and he was son of Erard de Ficquelmont anf grandson of Manassés de Ficquelmont, who was living in 1346 and Marie Dannoy.

In Lorraine where they sat as hereditary members of the upper house of the Parlement de Nancy, the ruling institution of French Lorraine that also served as the courts of appeal of the Royal province. During that period, the Ficquelmonts' primary seats were the châteaux of Dieuze (birthplace of Count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont (1777-1857), Parroy and their Hôtel in Nancy. The Ficquelmonts were also instrumental in founding and funding several Lorrainer religious institutions such as the Holy Cross College of Nancy, the Cathedral of Metz and the abbeys of Remiremont and Flavigny.

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