Bissy (family)
Encyclopedia
Bissy is the name of a famous family from the French nobility that gave poets, generals, bishops, explorers and resistants to France during the last five centuries.
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Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the family is three red crayfish on a gold surface .-
Notable members
- Pontus de Tyard de BissyPontus de TyardPontus de Tyard was a French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade".He was born at Bissy-sur-Fley in Burgundy, of which he was seigneur, but the exact year of his birth is uncertain. He became a friend of Antoine Héroet and Maurice Scève...
(1521–1605), French poet . - Héliodore de Thiard de Bissy (1557–1594), Governor of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs .
- Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy (1657–1737), Bishop of Toul (1687–1704) and Maux (1704–1737), Cardinal (1715), confident of King Louis XIV of France: he wrote his will and gave him the anointing of the sick before his death .
- Claude de Thiard de BissyClaude de Thiard de BissyClaude de Thiard de Bissy was a French soldier. He served his military career, rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 and fighting in the conquest of Franche-Comté and becoming governor of Languedoc and Auxonne.-Life:The son of Claude, 7th count of...
(1721–1810), Head of the French Royal Army during the conquest of Franche-Comté, Governor of Languedoc, member of the Académie Française . - Henri de Thiard de BissyHenri de Thiard de BissyHenri Charles Gabriel de Thiard de Bissy, comte de Thiard was a French general and writer. He was the younger brother of Claude de Thiard de Bissy, also a general and a writer. Henri was guillotined on the day Robespierre fell during the French Revolution....
(1723–1794), Brother of Claude, French general. - Frédéric de Bissy (1768–1803), French explorer who participated scientific expedition in Southern oceans .
- Monique de BissyMonique de BissyMonique de Bissy was a French/Belgian resistant born March 13, 1923 in Schaerbeek and died November 17, 2009 in Montpellier .- Biography :...
(1923–2009), French resistant during WWII .
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