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CHRESTIEN DUBOIS (b. 1597, d. 10 Oct 1655)

CHRESTIEN DUBOIS (son of JACQUES LOUIS DUBOIS and MADELINE RENEE DE CROY) was born 1597 in FRANCE, and died 10 Oct 1655 in FRANCE. He married JEANNE MASIC BRUNEL on 1620 in FRANCE, daughter of JEAN BRUNEL and JEAN JARIOT.

Notes for CHRESTIEN DUBOIS:
"Dubois signifies from the forest and was a family name in Artois, France, and in Normandy before William the Conqueror left its shores.
The erasure of record of Cretian's marriage and family was to prevent his children from establishing claim to the validity of descent to titles and estates, but the validity of Louis claim of descent is established for purpose of genealogy.
The record at Mannheim, Germany, where he married, states that he was the son of Cretian Dubois of Wicres, a little village in the Province of Artois, near Lille, France. The old register at Wicres has been examined and found to contain the registry of baptisms of three sons of Cretian DuBois, but in each case the christian name of the son is torn out in accordance with the King's order. This erasure of names from the records was done to remove all trace of the Protestant subjects."

The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin in Duchy of Normandy. The heraldic records of Paris commence the "geneology with Geoffroi DuBois, a knight banneret and a companion of Duke Williams in the conquest of England 1066."

"Chretien DuBois was a descendant of the Knight Geoffroi. He was a Huguenot gentleman of family of DuBois Seicneuno (?) of Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wieres, in La Bassee near Lille French Flanders now Artois."

It was undoubtedly owing to Chretien being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt to obliterate the public records of the family and destroy all evidence of his connection with nobility of France.

More About CHRESTIEN DUBOIS and JEANNE MASIC BRUNEL:
Marriage: 1620, FRANCE.

Children of CHRESTIEN DUBOIS and JEANNE MASIC BRUNEL are:

+LOUIS DUBOIS, b. 27 Oct 1626, WICRES, ARTOLA, FRANCE, d. 23 Jun 1696, KINGSTON, N.Y..