Rosset de Rocozels

The Rosset de Rocozels are a noble family originating in Rocozels in Languedoc in the Lodèvois. The presence of the former feudal family of Rocozels is attested in this stronghold in 1025. To the Middle Ages, it gave two bishops: Guillaume IV of Rocozels (bishop of Béziers of 1198 to 1205) and Raymond III of Rocozels (bishop of Lodève of 1262 to 1280). In XVIe century following a matrimonial alliance with Rosset, family originating in the Rouergue (lords and barons de Monpaon, diocese of Vabre), the descendants became Rosset de Rocozels. At the 17th century this family gathered the small seigniories of Rocozels, Bouloc and Ceilhes where it establishes its residence with the Château of Bouloc, forsaking the old castle of Rocozels of which there remains today only the vault of XIIe century. In 1680, Bernardin de Rosset de Rocozels married Marie de Fleury, sister of the cardinal of Fleury. In 1736 the king Louis XV created in favor of his godson Jean Hercules, the duchy-peerage of Fleury by the union of the marquisat of Rocozels and the baronie of Pérignan. Rosset de Rocozels de Fleury, were illustrated in the ecclesiastical and military careers. One of them, Pierre Augustin Bernardin (1717-1780), first chaplain of the queen Marie Leszczyńska, then of Marie-Antoinette, became bishop of Chartres. His/her brother Henri Marie Bernardin was archbishop of Turns then archbishop-duke of Cambric. As for the duke Andre Hercules Marie Louis (1767-1810), he married Aimée de Coigny, heroin of André Chénier, then gained under the Révolution the army of the emigrants and ordered a company of Uhlan S of the troops of the marquis de Bouillé.

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