Pierre Sicard de Carufel

Abt 1631 -

• Name	Pierre Sicard de Carufel
  Birth	Abt 1631	Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1643	Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France
  Person ID	I5598	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2017

  
  

  Father	Jean Sicard de Carufel,   b. of Carufel, Castres, Haut-Lenguedoc, France d. Aft 1664
  Mother	Marthe de Saint-Paul,   b. Abt 1609, Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France d. Aft 11 May 1664 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Marriage	Aft 16 Jan 1630	Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F18903	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie de Fargues,   b. Abt 1643, Saint-Jacques, Castres, Languedoc, France d. Saint-Jacques, Castres, Languedoc, France
  Marriage	Aft 5 Dec 1663	Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Jean Sicard de Carufel,   b. 1666, Saint-Jacques, Castres, Haut-Languedoc, France d. Aug 1743, Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Québec (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F18931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Lawyer at the Court of Justice (avocat en parlement). Following the 1664 and 1667 ordinances revising titles of nobility, Pierre appeared before the Montpelier tribunal where, on 5 Sep 1669, he and his descendants were declared noble. The act also mentions the fief of Carufel. "After taking over the government in 1661 Louis XIV had noticed that the nobility found itself mixed up with 'an infinite number of usurpers, either without a title or with a title acquired by money and without service,' and he considered this one of the principal 'disorders' afflicting the realm. Responding to the problem in 1664, Louis and Colbert decided that 'to fix the quality and condition of all the king's subjects, it seems necessary to compose a Catalog of all those who will be judged truly noble.' With this end in mind, the crown carried out a series of general recherches de la noblesse between 1666-74 and 1696-1716. In each province, every family of dubious status had to submit proof to the local intendant that its 'nobility' had been formally recognized in 1560 or before. Families whose pretensions had begun only after that date would be declared roturier and placed back on the tax rolls. Furthermore, in 1669 the crown announced that comprehensive catalogs of the names and coats of arms of local noble families would be compiled and registered for each bailliage, with copies to be send to the royal library in Paris." [The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy by Jay M. Smith. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S176] Ancestors of Hazel Ethel Coston, record held in the family of TNH. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024. [S5197] Benjamin Sulte, "Sicard de Carufel." Bulletin des Recheches Historiques 20:105, April 1914. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024., year only.