Armand Jean d\' Allonville

Armand Jean d' Allonville of Oysonville, born the July 13rd 1732, with Dommartin-the-Saint-Father, the diocese of Toul, out of dead Champagne the January 24th 1811, with London and was buried at the end of 1811, with Saint-Pancrace.

Count,
Général
It receives fifteen wounds with the Bataille of Rossbach, which is worth to him the cross of Saint-Louis at the 25 years age, and the honourable nickname of gash .

Its family

Its family, of Allonville, is quoted by Renee-Caroline-Victoire de Froulay, marchioness of Créquy among the names of the 41 families which are very former to 1399 and which those which carry them can be regarded as people of quality. This list is there for to compensate for the inaccuracy, the negligence or the venality of the genealogical dictionaries . His/her brother, the baron d' Allonville has the right to go up in one of the two fit with body continuation of the King , in order to follow it to hunting, in 1787. This rare privilege is reserved only for some members of the Court.

Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville is one of wire of the Marquis Edmé d' Allonville d' Oysonville (September 15th 1694 - March 3rd 1783), wire of François III of Allonville. He is the first of Allonville to carry the title of marquis. Officer with the Soldiers of the gardes-fran1caises, knight, lord of Arnancourt, the Chair and Féligny, he is also lord of Aclainville. Edmé had married Antoinette Sauvage of Chatelier (1713 - November 30th 1793, in Féligny, girl of Pierre Sauvage of Chatelier, on June 6th, 1728 with Féligny.

Armand Jean d' Allonville is the brother of Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville and of Jean Nicolas died in the army of Cop, on December 2nd, 1793, with the battle of Berstheim, in Alsace, to save the life of the Duc of Enghien Louis Antoine of Bourbon-Cop.

Charles d' Allonville (1400 - 1479) | | (5 generations] | | |-->François III of Allonville (1694 - 1783) | |--> Edmé II of Allonville d' Oysonville (1694 - 1783) X Antoinette Sauvage of Chatelier (1713 - 1793) | |--> Armand Jean d' Allonville (1732 - 1811) | X Marie Francoise Jehannot de Bartillat (1744 - 1817) | | | |--> Armand François d' Allonville (1764 - 1832) | | X (1) Charlotte Vavasseur (1769 - 1799) | | | | | |--> Marie-Louise d' Allonville] (1794 - 1877) | | X Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774 - 1852) | | | | X (2) Celestial Octavie of Munich (1785 - 1851) | | | |--> Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774 - 1852) | | | |--> Antoine Jean Baptist of Allonville (1765 - 1811) | | X Celestial Octavie of the Bourdonnaie-Lira (1790 - 1851) | | | | | |--> Armand-Octave-Marie d' Allonville (1809 - 1867) | | | |--> Louis d' Allonville (1771 - 1814) | |--> Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville (1735 - 1792) | |--> Jean Nicolas d' Allonville (1735 - 1792)

Biography

Before the Revolution

The elder one of wire of Edmé, the count Armand Jean, known as the gash becomes lord of Verdelot, castle of the Rock, Valéry, the castle of Launay-Renault, Replonge, etc in the Brie.

Armand enters to the service of the King in 1746, at the time of the seat of Mons, at 14 years, under the Maréchal of Saxony. He attends the Bataille of Rocourt and Lawfeld, in 1746 and 1747. Initially cornet, then lieutenant with the police officers, then captain with the regiment of cavalry of Lameth, it receives, with the Bataille of Rossbach, in 1757, fifteen blows of saber, including ten on the tète from where its gash. Raised of the battle field by the enemy, it obtains the cross of the royal and military Ordre of Saint-Louis, being then old only twenty-five years.

In 1767, the king appoints it captain of Carabiniers, then in 1770 Lieutenant-colonels of one of the five brigades of this regiment of elite. At the end of 1771, it becomes Mestre of Armand camp made the remainder of the Guerre of Seven-Years, like Mestre of camp as a second of the regiment.

Then, it is named in 1776, Mestre of general camp of cavalry and then Mestre of camp this time of the 5th regiment of Chevau-légers, in 1779.

Sergeant, on March 1st, 1780, fact marshal of the Camps and the armies of the King, on January 1st, 1784; in 1788, it receives the command of a large brigade of cavalry, in the 2nd Division of évêchés the, ordered by Andre-Claude Marquis de Chamborant.

During the Revolution

Armand Jean d' Allonville is syndic of the nobility and the clergy with Soissons, during the preparation of the General states.

fact a patriotic gift with the municipality of Soissons of 800 francs on June 17th, 1790. But, in 1791, Armand emigrates as much the noble ones which could not be made any more obey or saw their friends massacred by the revolutionists or imprisoned by the conventional ones.

In 1793, it in Maastricht is besieged. It fights in Flandres, in the small body of the duke of Bourbon, then in 1794-95, with a body of gentlemen bearing his name, the regiment of Allonville.

It orders in emigration the gentlemen of the Champagne province. In 1794, he is captain in the emigrated regiment of Béthisy. For lack of soldiers of sufficient number, the officers are partly degraded in the armies counter-revolutionaries.

May 1795, it raises, in Westphalia, of the troops. Not being ready its legion remains in England during the Débarquement of the emigrants with Quiberon in June/July 1795, in spite of the fact that he enjoys the protection of the count d' Artois and of the duke of Harcourt.

September 1795, Armand Jean d' Allonville is commander with Guernesey, then with the camp of, in the island of Wight. This emigrated body of four companies counts 240 volunteers, all former officers or gentlemen. The executives of Allonville must unload after the others and frame the royalist volunteers and of the prisoners carmagnoles . The three first take however share with the short occupation of the island of Yeu, at the end of 1795. An imposing fleet of unloading, 4.000 English, ammunition, weapons, and other units of emigrants, the regiment of Choiseul, executives of Allonville and Williamson , Rohan cavalry, hunters of York, and the regiments of Castrate and of Mortemar, do not unload in the Vendée. On ground of the thousands of Vendéens are ready to sweep the weak republican forces. But only a handle of emigrants unload. The count d' Artois delays. Republican reinforcements come to reinforce the troops already on the spot and the English do not want to attack Noirmoutier defended by 2.000 men and a powerful artillery.

Badly vêtus and obliged to camp and make the trade of simple orderlies, the executives of Allonville is shown some outraged and some hold of the remarks greater indecency , according to the English. What gives in November and in December 1796, a pretext for their dismissal by their allies.

Pensioned with five shillings per day, after the dismissal of the troops, the count d' Allonville lives in misery, in England. Quoted in London, on April 12th, 1806, it dies there in 1811. At the end of the 19th century century, one will be able to still see his fall into the old cemetery of Saint-Pancrace.

Descent

Armand Jean d' Allonville Marie with Marie-Francoise Jehannot de Bartillat (August 8th, 1744 - 1817), girl of the marquis Louis Joachim Jehannot de Bartillat, colonel of a regiment of his name and Jeanne Pouyvet de Lablinière, on February 29th, 1764.

Armand Jean d' Allonville is the father inter alia:

Armand François d' Allonville, Brigadier, historian. One allots to him the paternity of the plan of Barclay de Tolly which organizes the retirement of the Russian troops in the countryside of 1812.
He is the father also of Alexandre Louis d' Allonville of Oysonville, Brigadier, prefect, historian…
Anne-Marie d' Allonville (1769-after 1873) Marie with the count de Mertrus Saint-Ouen, a captain of cavalry.
the Viscount Antoine Jean Baptist of Allonville of Oysonville (October 19th, 1765 - September 1811 London), knight of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem, of Malta, receipt of minority, not profès between as second lieutenant with the regiment of Artois cavalry, in 1780. Named captain with the regiment of Quercy-cavalry, in 1784, it is submitted to the court, with his older brother, on January 21st, 1788. During the revolution, he becomes major with the service of Portugal. Antoine marries Céleste Octavie of the Bourdonnaye-Lira (1790-1851), on February 3rd, 1807 (allied family with of Guesclin). They are the parents of the general Armand-Octave-Marie d' Allonville (1809 - 1867).

Another brother, Louis d' Allonville of Oysonville (October 4th, 1771 - January 28th, 1814 Lymington) is him also knight of Malta " not profès " , received in the Order of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem, on December 10th, 1771, receipt of minority, " not profès " , between second lieutenant with the regiment of Quercy-cavalry, in 1787. Alexandre marries Fanny Dixon , before 1808. He died artillery officer and left a son to St Lucia, which will become captain in the Chasseurs.

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