Grimaldi de Bueil

It is about an old branch seigneuriale of the sovereign house of Grimaldi.

Grimaldi de Bueil will reign on one of the greatest strongholds of Provence and will be successively lords, barons and counts. Jean Grimaldi, lord of Bueil, Seneshal of Provence, is at the origin of the " Dédition " country niçois with the count Amédée VII of Savoy in 1388. Large-vassal of the counts and dukes of Savoy, Grimaldi de Bueil will be frequently governors of the Comté of Nice. Proud of her independence, this family will seek to obtain the independence of the country niçois to her profit, and consequently will show alternatively rebel and faithful to the Maison of Savoy. Annibal Grimaldi de Bueil will plot against the duke of Savoy without to have measured enough the support which it could draw from the French and the Spaniards. Those will not come to its help. Annibal will be carried out (1621), its confiscated possessions, and the castle of shaven Beuil in 1633. During two centuries, the collateral branches of Levens and Boves (Piedmont) survived to him in the States of Savoy.

N.B. One writes usually the surname “Bueil” (deformation of Italian Boglio , francized as of the Middle Ages) but the commune of which they were lords “Beuil” (because the Italian form was francized only in 1860 when the county of Nice became French).

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