Pedigree of the Nugent family (counts)


Dublin author: Sir William Betham, the Ulster King of Arms 1853 Manuscript on paper, watercolour, leather cover Genealogy of the pedigree type, written in the form of a table of ancestors, with text in English, was made to order by the duchess Giovanna (Johanna) Riario Sforza, wife to the Austrian count and roman duke, lieutenant marshal Laval Nugent. Bound in a hard-cover book, consisting mostly of a schematic outline of the 85 family branches in the male and female line; it begins with Ives de Belesme (995), the Norman founder of the family and an ancestor of Fulco (1066-1090) who had together with his brothers moved to England and was the first to call himself de Nogent (or Nugent) and goes on listing their descendants of both sexes up to the time of Laval (1777-1862), ending with his six children - sons Albert, Gilbert and Arthur, and daughters Beatrix, Jane and Leontine. V. Brajkovic, Grbovi, grbovnice, rodoslovlja, Zagreb, 1995, page 150.




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