KING LOUIS XVI SIGNED CAPTAIN'S NOMINATION IN INFANTRY REGIMENT OF LORRAINE 1779

Description

"Appointment of Pierre-Nicolas-Francois Boucher
de Gironcourt as a Captain in the Company of the Infantry
Regiment of Lorraine"
Signed by King Louis XVI and
Countersigned by Minister of War to Louis XVI Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germaine on June 22, 1779
Size: 13.4" x 9
.6
(34 cm x 26 cm), Signed and Watermarked
"His Majesty orders S.
Pierre Nicolas Francois Boucher
de Gironcourt
…to leave the post of
Captain Commandant
in the Lieutenant
Colonel Company of the
…..Infantry Regiment
Lorraine
…….
and to pass incessantly to the charge
from Captain Commanding
Vacant Company……
…………. by the Promotion
of S.
Martinprey
Villefont to a Lieutenant
Colonel of Royal Grenadiers
……..
to serve there
henceforth in the said quality. Mandate and order His
Your Majesty to
Officers and Soldiers - who composed it, to receive
to recognize the said
S.
Boucher de Gironcourt
for his Captain commanding
and to obey him in
everything he does and will command in the service of His
Majesty.
Done at Versailles on
the twenty-second of June 1779.
Louis
Montbarrey"
Information about the military and historical personalities mentioned by King Louis XVI in this document:
Pierre-Nicolas-Melchior Boucher de Gironcourt,
Knight de Saint-Louis, former captain in the regiment of Lorraine infantry.
Joseph-Antoine Boucher de Gironcourt,
officer in the royal grenadiers, and
Pierre-Nicolas Boucher de Gironcourt,
knight of Saint-Louis, former captain in the Lorraine-Infantry
regiment,
took part in 1789 in the assemblies of the nobility held at Bar-le-Duke.
Charles Joseph Alexandre Martimprey de Villefont
(1733 - 1813), promoted Knight of the Order of the Saint Louis in 1774. Knight of Villefond, of the Counts of Martimprey de Villefont (Charles-Joseph-Alexandre), Lieutenant-Colonel of Grenadiers-Royals of Normandy. By patent of August, 1786
Alexandre Marie Eleonor of Saint-Mauris
,
count of Montbarrey, then prince of Montbarrey
and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1774), grandee of Spain of first class (1780), knight of the Holy Spirit,
lieutenant general (1780).
From the “LES CONTROLES DE TROUPES DE L'ANCIEN RÉGIME par A. CORVISIER – Tome 2 Page 413”
1 318 - 1Yc 520 - 1er registre. « LORRAINE », 2e bataillon.
La feuille de titre est permutée avec celle du 1er bataillon. Caen, 23 décembre 1774.
Signé :
Villefont
,
capitaine aide-major.
Cies de grenadiers de nt, Demandolx, Fassion Beaumont (ci-devant Ligniville, chev. dolx, Fassion de Marne)
lieut.-colonelle [du Contant, Carbon] Isoard (ci-devant La Bastie), La Morte
Fassion, Demandolx (chef de bataillion)
Duberon, Larguillière (incorporée dans Mandolx)
Guillon
Gironcourt
(ci-devant Milbert), Brunet.
Noel (ci-devant Morges)
1 319 - 1Yc 517 - 1er registre. « LORRAINE » 1er bataillon. Versailles,
10 septembre 1776. Signé :
le Prince de Montbarey.
Etat-major Lieut.-colonelle [Carbon], chev. de La Cies de grenadiers de Vaugrand, Brunet, Motte Vouvent Fassion,
Gironcourt
, Batilly Buffevent, Vaugrand, comte de Rose, Beaumont, Volvent, Ponnat. Larguilière
1 320 - 1Yc 517 - 2e registre. « LORRAINE », 2e bataillon. Versailles, 10 septembre 1776. Signé : le Prince de Montbarey.
Cics de Brunet, comte de Rose, Beaumont. Noel, Dalayer, Montalambert, Baune d'Alayer
comte de Villefont
, La Morte, La colonelle [duc de Mortemart], chev. Foye de Bron, Meynard chasseurs de Crosat, Montalambert.