Don Juan de Xavier

Don Juan De Xavier was born in Navarre, France in 1652, he married Marie Maris, who was born in 1654. They had one son, who was named Valentine Xavier, he was born in 1678 in Navarre, France. Don Xavier was Dale's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather.

Notes

• 1685 - Some of the family of St. Francis Xavier, living at Xavier, and bearing the name of the town as a family name, had embraced the Protestant religion, and one of them, a devout young Huguenot, Don Jaun Xavier, left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) by Louis XIV. He settled in London, gradually changed the family name to Sevier, pronounced like the English adjective "severe," and his first name to John. He married a London girl named Smith. This was the grandfather of General John Sevier (Folmsbee, Stanley J. John Sevier Empire Builder).
• It seems that everyone takes the seviers back to Don Juan de Xavier. Okay, but start adding up the dates and you'll see that some of the generations are out of alignment. Don Juan de Jasse, Chief Counselor to John III de'Albret who became King of Navarre when he married Catherine de Foix, married Maria de Xavier, who had inheirited her rank and posistion and castle from her Spanish mother(because of other heirs)-she was very wealthy. Don Juan took her name and rank and castle. This was in the mid 1400's. They had a HUGH family, the last born was in 1506 and became St.Francis Xavier (founder of the Jesuits). The lineage is thru one of his brothers, who was probably named Juan and then his son, and then his son, before it gets to the Don Juan de Xavier born in 1652 .This is the Don Juan de Xavier that has Valentine (John the Huguenot) in 1678, who in 1708 in the Parrish of St. Giles, Crippingate, London, England marries Mary Smith who was also born in that place. Two of the sons born to them, Valentine Sevier and William Sevier (SEVERE) ran away to America about 1740. (mary severe mandgie  Posted: 27 Apr 2001)
• Sevier is the English version of the name Xavier. The Sevier/Xaviers were originally from Navarre.* Among early members (but not direct ancestors) of the Sevier family is St. Francis Xavier. Two generations later, the Xavier/Sevier family turned Protestant (Huguenot) and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685, the family was forced to leave France. One brother,Valentine Sevier, went to London, then America: another brother, Richard Sevier, went to St. Petersburg, Russia. It is said there are Seviers in Russia to this day, but for obvious reasons that branch of the family has been difficult to trace. This much family history seems necessary as background to the following. *For those interested, see SEVIER FAMILY HISTORY, with collected letters of Gen. John Sevier, First Gov. of Tennessee, by Cora Bales Sevier and Nancy Sevier Madden, Washington DC 1961, published by Cora B.Sevier, second printing 1982.)

Links

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 13 2016, 2:29:56 UTC