Jonquerets-de-Livet

Jonquerets-de-Livet is a commune in the Eure department in northern France. Jonquerets-de-Livet incorporates the old village of Livet-en-Ouche, once known simply as Livet. (Some ascribe the name Livet to a Celtic word meaning a low-lying place traversed by water, or perhaps a French word meaning 'little yew-tree' from "if"= yew, in French "l'if-et" > Livet .) [ [http://cidre.rene.lesur.club.fr/ra05-le_canton_de_beaumesnil.html Histoire de Jonquerets-de-Livet, Le Canton de Beaumesnil] ]

The de Livet family, feudal under-tenants of the barony of the de Ferrieres family (centered on that family's seat at nearby Ferrieres-Saint-Hilaire), originated in Livet-en-Ouche. Descendants of one branch of this family became the Marquises of Barville [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=aZFYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=%22de+livet%22+noblesse&source=web&ots=JqEdYT0y4i&sig=UOw7Ndx1zHfEXzsBfd4niuKQBn8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Contenant les genealogies, l'histoire, la Chronologie des Familles Nobles de France, Francois Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois, 1786] ] in France (de Livet de Barville). [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=TVMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA310&lpg=PA310&dq=livet+king+normandy&source=web&ots=VfcDZZklPY&sig=fDbaw30qw2zUthuRKPfIfNRJWy8&hl=en The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America, Henry S. King & Co., London, 1874] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=-hEMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=%22de+livet%22+seigneur&lr=&ei=d6vWSOL-O6POtAPd-6XeDg Notes pour Servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire du departement de l'Eure, Auguste le Prevost, Impr. de A. Herissey, Evreux, 1849] ]

The Norman French branch of the de Livet family counts among its members early knights (chevaliers), church officials (including Guillaume de Livet, a judge at the trial of Joan of Arc) [ [http://www.jeanne-darc.dk/p_references/p_biography/p_partisan_english/guillaume_de_livet.html Judges, Trial of Joan of Arc] ] , Canon of Rouen Robert de Livet (who excommunicated King Henry V of England during his siege of Rouen, after which de Livet was imprisoned for five years in England) [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=d2UNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=%22robert+de+livet%22&source=web&ots=6oUwHPy7Vk&sig=uFAh3ApzDld5RbGCIPX9JoF22Mk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA257,M1 Henry V (King of England), Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901] ] , chevalier banneret Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France) and early Crusaders. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=nfUGAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA64-IA2&lpg=RA1-PA64-IA2&dq=%22jean+de+livet%22+staffordshire&source=web&ots=haWhrnD1LU&sig=dFBO348l2-VPELe189K1dL8qwHc&hl=en Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Alfred Williams, Walter Henry Mallett, F. Brown, 1889] ]

The de Livets were among the ancient noble families (noblesse ancienne, or Noblesse d'épée) of France. A branch of the family was named the hereditary controller of the rivers and waterways of Normandy in the thirteenth century, reflected in the use of an anchor on the family's French coat-of-arms. The family traditionally bore as their coat-of-arms three molettes d'or (gold) on a blue (azure) background. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=TosOAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA145&lpg=RA1-PA145&dq=molettes+d'or+de+livet&source=web&ots=DzwOT-tFo1&sig=wz5bLj_oWfiSP4N688Dp0D36Oeg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result Nobiliaire Universel de France, M. de Saint-Allais, Paris, 1815] ]

Another branch of the family settled at d'Arentot in d'Ourville. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=6LcDAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA444&lpg=RA1-PA444&dq=ourville+lyvet&source=web&ots=lgASmiuodF&sig=0wDXFPZfMk8YC_Qst0ge7HbB--M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PRA1-PA444,M1 Memoires, Societe des antiquaire de Normandie, 1859] ] Georges de Livet, a member of this branch of the de Livet family, was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. The last member of this branch of the family, who died without descendants, was comte Constantin Augustin Robert de Lyvet, mayor of D'Ourville (today's Ourville-en-Caux), who died in 1924. [ [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/chmartin/historique_nom.htm Histoire de quelques patronymes] ]

During the Norman Conquest of England, a branch of the de Livet family followed the Ferrers (Earls of Derby) to England, along with the Curzons (Notre-Dame-de-Courson) and the Baskervilles (Boscherville), who were also under-tenants of the old Ferrieres fiefdom in Normandy. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=2J5rkqos7wAC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=%22origins+of+some+anglo-norman+families%22+livet&source=web&ots=dBAWpi2pAf&sig=8BMJu9Kwr6_w1NIMUG9x7OkAqL8&hl=en#PPA55,M1 The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, The Harleian Society, Leeds, 1951, vol. 103] ] The name of this branch of the de Livet family was anglicized into the name Levett, Levet, Lyvet, Livett, Leavett and its variants.

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E5FYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=%22de+livet%22+chevalier&source=web&ots=akpLisH4DQ&sig=XG7lSqSJ_7ShruW4w1xt5K3z89Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA69,M1 Jean de Livet, Chevalier, Banneret to King Philip II of France ca. 1216, Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Francois Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois, 1775] Fr

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*Communes of the Eure department
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=DGoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=%22jean+de+livet%22+chevalier&source=web&ots=7yFGd9he8R&sig=ycP4hSA5o5Hvlu50a3yXPtIGrng&hl=en de Livet de Barville, en francais]