BEAUHARNAIS, Famille de. Important set of manuscript archive - Lot 317

BEAUHARNAIS, Famille de. Important set of manuscript archives. 15th - 17th centuries. Set of approximately 25 manuscripts on parchment and paper. Various formats. Age-related defects. IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MANUSCRITS, MOST OF WHICH CONCERN THE BEAUHARNAIS FAMILY, formerly spelled Beauharnois or Biauharnois. This fine collection includes the following: -JEANNE d'ARC]. Manuscript entitled "Extraict du Procès verbal de la justification de la pucelle d'Orléans, qui se voit dans la bibliothèque de St Victor à Paris, cotte 926". Latin excerpts from Jean Biauharnois' testimony follow: "Page 488 ou 427. Joannis Biauharnois [...]". -Parchment receipt dated December 23, 1426 for Guillaume [?] Beauharnois, for the sum of 240 livres tournois, received from Jacques Bouches, treasurer general of finances for Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. -A lease of La Chaussée by Guillaume Beauharnois, seigneur de Miramion, dated November 10, 1456. On parchment. -A deed dated July 7, 1470 establishing a transaction between Jacques de Beauharnais, "son & heir of the late noble man Guillaume Beauharnois", seigneur de Miramion, and Pierre Denisot for the purchase of rents. -1474; attestation of Guillaume Beauharnois' will. -Long deed of marriage between Guillaume Beauharnois, son of François Beauharnois, and Marie Rousseau. July 25, 1599. -LOUIS XIII]. Letter of office on parchment, dated January 18, 1620. Signed by Louis XIII (secretary's hand), in which he appoints Guillaume de Beauharnais, seigneur d'Outreville, Conseiller du roi en ses conseils d'État et privé: " [...] the King is in Paris, taking into consideration the good and pleasant services that Guillaume de Beauharnois, Seigneur d'Outreville, President and Treasurer General of France in the office of his finances in Orleans, has rendered him on all occasions, in which he has acquired a great capacity and knowledge of the affairs of this State, His Majesty, wishing to honor him with a quallity commensurate with his merit, has retained, ordered and established him as his advisor in his State and Privy Councils. Veult et entend qu'il y at d'oresavant entrée, séances et voix deliberatifve, & jouisse des honneurs, authorités, preminances, appoinctements et droitz attribuez à ladite charge ainsi que les autres conseillers en sondit conseil, et fasse à cette fin es mains de Monsieur de Sillery, chancelier de France, ou de Monsieur du Vair, garde des sceaux, le serment pour ce requis et accoustumé. In testimony of this, His Majesty has ordered me to send him the present patent, which he has signed with his own hand [...]". -LOUIS XIII]. P.S. (handwritten), relative to the appointements of Guillaume Beauharnois. June 6, 1635. -Marriage contract between "Jean de Beauharnais, second of the name and Marie Mallet" daughter of Sieur de Villeroy, April 12, 1636. Jean de Beauharnais (1606-1661) was Maître d'hôtel ordinaire to the King. He was the great-grandfather of François VI de Beauharnais, whose son, Alexandre de Beauharnais, married Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the French, in 1779. -LOUIS XIV]. Manuscript on parchment from the Maistre d'Hotel du Roy, with a secretary's signature by hand, relating to Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische. Compiègne, September 4, 1652. Contresignature of Guénégaud. -Various documents relating to Guillaume de Laubespine, canon of Orléans, etc. -ETC.