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Données personnelles Bernard de Nogaret de la Valette 2nd duc d'Epérnon et La Valette 

• Il est né le 18 mars 1592.
• Il est décédé le 25 juillet 1661, il avait 69 ans.
• Un enfant de Jean Louis de Nogaret de la Valette et Marguerite de Foix
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Bernard de Nogaret de la Valette 2nd duc d'Epérnon et La Valette

(1) Il est marié avec Gabrielle Angelique [illegitimate] de Bourbon.

Ils se sont mariés le 12 décembre 1622, il avait 30 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Louis-Charles-Gaston de Nogaret de la Valette  1627-1658
2. Anne-Louise-Christine de Nogaret de la Valette  

(2) Il est marié avec Marie du Cambout de Coislin.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1634, il avait 41 ans.

(3) Il est marié avec Antoinette Barbazan Faudoas.

Ils se sont mariés environ 1638.

Enfant(s):

1. John [illegitimate ?] Nogaret de la Valette  1638-> 1689 

(4) Il est marié avec Ninon de Lartigue.

Ils se sont mariés à Not Married.

Notes par Bernard de Nogaret de la Valette 2nd duc d'Epérnon et La Valette

Monseigneur Bernard De Foix De La Vallette, duc d'Espernon, de Candale, Pair et colonel général de France, prince captal de Buch, sire de L'Esparre, chevalier des ordres du roy et de la Jarretière, Gouverneur et Lieutenant Général pour Sa Majesté en ses Pays de Bourgogne et Bresse, &c.

Bernard Nogaret De La VALETTE, 2nd Duke d'Epernon b: 1592 d: 1661 Paris, Fr. (Duke de La Valette 1622-31; 2nd Duke d'Epernon 1642-61; Col. General of Infantry 1642-61; Governor of the provinces of Bourgogne and Bresse; peerage extinct 1661; dukedom sold to Pardaillian-Gondrin, Sg de Savignac.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Nogaret_de_La_Valette_d%27%C3%89pernon

Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon
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Engraved portrait of Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette, 1650, by Robert Nanteuil. Yale University Art Gallery

Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette (1592, Angoulême - 1661), duke of Épernon and a French general, was the son of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette and Marguerite de Foix-Candale, granddaughter of the constable of Montmorency. Through his mother's line, Bernard could also claim the English title of Earl of Kendal, originally granted to his ancestor John de Foix in 1446.

In 1622, Bernard married Gabrielle-Angélique de Verneuil, legitimised daughter of Henri IV and the Marquise de Verneuil, with whom he had a son, Louis-Charles-Gaston de Candale, and a daughter, Anne-Louise-Christine de Foix de La Valette d'Épernon. Gabrielle-Angélique died in 1627 (some say Bernard poisoned her) and in 1634 he married Marie Ducambaut, a niece of Cardinal Richelieu. It was not a happy marriage, as Bernard later conceived a life-long passion for a middle-class woman named Ninon de Lartigue, who exerted absolute power over him and to whom he gave enormous sums of money.

Like his father, Bernard made a career of the military. He was named Colonel-General of infantry and fought at the sieges of Saint-Jean-d'Angély and of Royan (1621) and at the attack of the pas de Suse (1629). On 15 May 1633, Bernard became a Chevalier du Saint-Esprit and in 1635 he was charged by Louis XIII with restoring the order which had been disturbed by lifting of taxes and religious passions. He fought in Picardy (1636), in Guyenne, and finally against the Spaniards, and repressed the Peasants' Revolt (Révolte des Croquants) in 1637.

Charged by the Prince de Condé in 1638 with leading the assault at the siege of Fontarabie (Hondarribia), he refused, believing that the breach was not broad enough. He yielded his post to Vice-Admiral de Sourdis who launched an ill-fated attack which resulted in heavy losses. This disaster was attributed to the duke of Valette, who had nothing to do with it and who in fact deserved praise for rejoining the remains of the army and leading it to Bayonne. Richelieu, who hated de La Valette, had him tried in front of an extraordinary court chaired by the king himself (1639). The court returned a sentence of death but de La Valette, who knew Richelieu well, had prudently departed for England where he received the Order of the Garter. The penalty was carried out in effigy.

In 1642 Bernard's father died, raising him to the title of duke of Épernon. After the death of Louis XIII, Bernard returned to France where the Parliament of Paris cancelled the judgement against him (1643). In 1648 he became governor of Guyenne. That same year, he was responsible for transporting artillery of the Château du Hâ to arm the Château-Trompette to put down unrest resulting from the Parliament of Bordeaux's refusal to allow the departure of a shipment of corn, for fear of famine. Bernard also served as governor of Burgundy (1654–  1660) and was a guard of the theatre company of Charles Dufresne (whose most famous member was Molière).

He died in Paris in 1661.

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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Nogaret_de_La_Valette_d%27%C3%89pernon

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Traité de la noblesse: et de toutes ses differentes especes ...
By Gilles André La Roque (sieur de La Lontière)
p. 39

Henri & Bernard enfans de Louis de Nogaret de la Valette, Duc d'Esperon & de Marguerite de Foix Comtesse  de Candale, instiués héritiers aux biens de Foix de la Branche de Candale , ont pris les quartiers maternels avec le nom de Foix, par préférence aux paternels.

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http://josfamilyhistory.com/htm/nickel/burch/epperson-families/french-american-transition.htm

Metamorphosis of a Family Name

Few details are known about the transitional period in our family's genealogy, from about 1638 to the family arriving on America's colonial shores. Many events can only be speculated. However, these generations are some of the most important in the family genealogy. These generations would see a change in their surname and bring the genealogy to America. Whereas Bernard de Nogaret fled France as the duc de la Valette, and left England as the duc d'Épernon, one of his sons and grandsons would leave England (and arrive in America) as an Epecon* or Epperson.

    * The decision was made to Anglicize the French Épernon to Epperson, somewhere and at some point in time. French speakers pronouncing Epperson would easily pronounce the name with a French accent. Most English-speakers hearing the name pronounced in that way, whether in England or in the colonies, would write it as they hear it: Epecon (with a soft-C), unless informed otherwise. Some documentation shows the surname as "Epecon". Consider "Epecon" as Epperson with a French accent.

Vera Apperson English (The Apperson Family in America) states that Edmund Apperson arrived from Wales in 1736 (parish records of New Kent County, Virginia). This was, for her, strong evidence that Bernard initiated the name change upon his arrival in Wales in order for them to be invisible to the French Crown. I am not convinced that Vera Apperson's reasoning is logical. Just because William left Wales in 1736 cannot automatically imply that his father initiated a name change upon his arrival in Wales.

I suggest the possibility that it was not Bernard who changed the name. It may have been Antoinette, or John Sr. himself, who changed it, in England or Wales, after Bernard returned to France.

And so, the French name Épernon became the English name Epperson ("pp" and the suffix "son" are common for English names). In the melting pot that America is, we consider our ancestry as both English and French. Bernard's son, John, and his first wife were both French, married on the Channel Isle of Jersey; but John's 2d wife, Elizabeth Beard, was born in Cornwall, England; and they married in Saint Andrew, England. Thus, the family that migrated to Virginia was a combination of both the French and the English. Children from both marriages fathered the Eppersons/Appersons in America.

The Mysterious Exile

There is a great deal of fuzziness as to (1) Bernard's route to exile and his stay in any one place; (2) if he had a woman with him or had a liaison or marriage with a woman while in exile; (3) what child or children he may have had while in exile; and (4) what became of them.

In order for our Epperson lineage to descend from Jean-Louis de Nogaret de la Valette (duc d'Épernon) and his son, Bernard (duc de la Valette), there had to have been a child by another woman - either a marriage or a liaison.

Web lineages have Bernard marrying a third time, variously in France, in the Netherlands, or at sea between the Netherlands and England, or between The Netherlands and the Channel Islands. I have found nothing about any of this in any French sources -- at least not yet.
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