Tabouillot

Tabouillot
Noble house
Coat of arms of the Tabouillot family
Country	France, Germany, Norway, Spain
Ethnicity	French

Tabouillot is a French noble family, originally from Regret at Verdun. The family were originally members of the French Nobles of the Robe. After fleeing the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, Louis de Tabouillot, was appointed an officer in the Prussian Army by special royal decree in 1795 and recognised as noble in the Kingdom of Prussia. Today, family members live in Scandinavia, Spain and Germany.

The family is descended from Jean de Tabouillot (ca. 1602–1672). His son, the prosecutor Claude de Tabouillot (born 1630), was the father of marchand tanneur Pierre de Tabouillot (died 1735), who was married to Nicole Gauffet. Their son, conseiller du Roi Claude de Tabouillot (1701–1786), was married to Elisabeth de Bignicourt (died 1787). They were the parents of conseiller du roi, prosecutor and police president of Verdun Louis François de Tabouillot (1733–1806), who was married to Anne de Grandfèbre (1747–1794).

Louis François de Tabouillot and Anne de Grandfèbre were the parents of Antoine Charles Louis de Tabouillot (1775–1813) and of Claire-Louise de Tabouillot (born 1775), who was married to the commissaire des guerres, René François Marchal de Corny, who belonged to a prominent noble family from Lorraine.

Antoine Charles Louis de Tabouillot (1775–1813) was an officer of the French King's personal bodyguard Garde du Corps at Versailles and of the Armée des Princes, a royalist counter-revolutionary army during the French Revolution. During the Reign of Terror, he fled to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793; his mother Anne de Grandfèbre was executed by guillotine in Paris in 1794 and the family's property in France was confiscated. In Prussia Louis de Tabouillot was accepted as a lieutenant of the Prussian Army on 29 January 1795 by a special decree of King Frederick William II of Prussia. The King promised him a promotion to captain when he had improved his knowledge of the German language. Accordingly, he was later promoted to captain in the Count Wedel Fusilier Battalion. He was appointed as Mayor (French: maire) of Essen by the French during the Napoleonic Wars in 1811.