Bissy (family)
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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.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the family is three red crayfish on a gold surface .

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Notable members

  • Pontus de Tyard de Bissy
    Pontus de Tyard
    Pontus 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 Bissy
    Claude de Thiard de Bissy
    Claude 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 Bissy
    Henri de Thiard de Bissy
    Henri 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 Bissy
    Monique de Bissy
    Monique 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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