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GEORGES-JOSEPH HORRER AND HIS FAMILY
The Knight GEORGES-JOSEPH HORRER, advisor to the King and lawyer at the Sovereign Council of Alsace, royal lender of Obernai, very considered situation in Alsace, was born in Lauterbourg on September 15, 1713. He lived for a long time in Colmar (Department of Haut-Rhin), which had been elevated to the rank of judicial capital by the Sovereign Council of Alsace. He died in Obernai on March 6, 1750, leaving his wife a widow. An inventory of his estate was made by deed received by Eggs, notary in Obernai, on April 2, 1750 (Departement of Bas-Rhin archives).
He married by contract on December 29, 1740 Jeanne-Rosalie de BROBEQUE (1) (Frenchified form of the German family Brostbeck, Brostbeck), born in Strasbourg on August 12, 1717, daughter of the Knight Jean-Pierre de Brobèque, lawyer at the Sovereign Council of Alsace, bailiff of the Nobility, bailiff of the Grand-Chapitre of Strasbourg, and of Anne-Marie Rothfuchs. Jeanne-Rosalie de Brobèque, widow in 1750, subscribed in December 1759 annuities of 200 french pounds for each of her children. She died in Strasbourg on January 8, 1770, aged 52.
They had 6 children :
1° The Knight GEORGES-JOSEPH HORRER, baptized in Saint-Martin parish in Colmar on October 1, 1741, died in Colmar the following year, on July 14, 1742, and was buried in the Oliviers cemetery .
2° MARIE-JEANNE-CATHERINE HORRER, baptized in Saint-Martin parish in Colmar on January 24, 1743, was godmother to her nephew Marie-Joseph, future Count d'HORRER, on October 9, 1773 in Strasbourg.
She married, on December 19, 1763 in Saint-Etienne church in Strasbourg, Simon-Benoît BRUDER, (or de BRUDER, de BRUDERN, various forms from the time when German surnames were declined )(2) , native of Appenweyr (Neuf-Brisach canton), provost and bailiff of Appenweyr, later prefect of the water and forestry department in Ortenau. He was the son of Simon de BRUDER, advisor to the Marquis de Baden-Baden, and of Marie-Elisabeth Burgg. This marriage was celebrated by François-Ignace de Brobèque, priest of the Order of Malta and uncle of the wife.
3° The Knight JOSEPH-PIERRE-PHILIPPE HORRER, born in Colmar on March 16, 1744, baptized on March 20 in the Saint-Martin parish , died in Colmar the following year, on February 9, 1745.
4° The Knight PHILIPPE-XAVIER HORRER, who will follow later: French revolution and emigration to Russia
5° The Knight JOSEPH-ANDRE HORRER (or Jean-André) is the fouder or the non-emigrated lineage, who follows first : Non-emigrated lineage.
6° ELISABETH-ROSALIE HORRER, born in Obernai in September 1749, married in Strasbourg on October 19, 1772, the knight André CAPRIOL, squire, lord of Saint-Hilaire (3) , in Albigenses, captain in the Royal Artillery Regiment of Besançon, then captain in the Regiment de La Fère, artillery brigade chief, Knight of Saint-Louis, born in Lautrec, Castres diocese, in 1728, François Capriol'son, lord of Pachassant and Saint-Hilaire. His mother was Antoinette de Landes d'Aussac de Saint-Palais.=
They had this son:
a. MARIE-JOSEPH-ANDRE-AUGUSTIN CAPRIOL, Baron, then Viscount de SAINT-HILAIRE, officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of Saint-Louis, born in Strasbourg August 14 1779, died in Paris on December 19, 1849, received the title of hereditary Viscount from the King Louis XVIII on August 17, 1822. Second lieutenant of artillery in 1798, captain on October 30, 1803, he received from Napoleon a donation of 500 francs on the Mount of Milan by decree of March 17, 1808; battalion chief in 1809, colonel of the 31st artillery on July 1st, 1813, retired field marshal in 1821, he had married Jeanne-Adélaïde-Augustine DOUSSET, and had two daughters:
a1. MARIE-ADELAIDE-AUGUSTINE CAPRIOL DE SAINT-HILAIRE, born in Beauchamp (Val d'Oise) on May, 1, 1807.
a2. JEANNE-CLOTILDE CAPRIOL DE SAINT-HILAIRE, born in Bourges on March 18, 1818, married her cousin Auguste-Gustave-Gaspard Capriol de Pechassant, brigadier general (1868) .
NOTES
1/ de Brobèque: ennobled family by diploma of the Emperor Ferdinand II dated August 25, 1627. A letter exists, in the Horrer file of the Archives du Bas-Rhin, sealed to these arms addressed by François-Ignace de Brobèque, priest of the Order of Malta, to his nephew Philippe-Xavier Horrer in 1775.
2/ Bruder, de Bruder: Austrian barons in 1771, Hungarian barons in 1776, Holy Roman Empire barons in 1792. There is in the Horrer file of the Archives du Bas-Rhin a letter from 1775 addressed by Simon-Benoît de Bruder to his brother-in-law Philippe-Xavier Horrer.
3/ Capriol de Saint-Hilaire: arms : left for 1 of gules, with the goat or rodent deer crawling with gold; to 2 of silver with three speckles of ermine sand (Révérend: "Titres, paieries et enoblissements de la Restauration").