Seigneur de Champigneuelle François de Joyeuse

François de Joyeuse was the second son in the family and its “black sheep”. For his first marriage he rebelled against his parents’ wishes and wed a woman (name unknown) who was far beneath the de Joyeuse family in social class and rank. Robert de Joyeuse, a physically powerful and violent man, retaliated by disowning his son. Robert left François only "son nom et son épée" (“his name and his sword”). This dispute was not mentioned in contemporary documents. Only a discourse attested by Jean-Baptiste de Joyeuse to notary Pierre Hanonnet of Verdun (enscribed on 20 March 1733) mentioned how François had been ostracized by his parents.* The connection of François de Joyeuse to his parents is the genealogical linchpin for his and his descendants’ linkage to their extraordinary de Joyeuse and de Barbançon ancestry, as indicated in family trees RA 1 through RA 468 of Paul Alan Fine's published, four-volume genealogy & family history, "Their Roots Run Far and Deep". By the way: François’ second wife, Nicole Françoise de Beauvais, was of high pedigree and socially acceptable to François’ parents.

• From “Les origines de Philippe Amiot (Hameau), de son épouse Anne Couvent et de leur neveu Toussaint Ledran,” by Roland-Yves Gagné and Laurent Kokanosky, pages 45 and 46, Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française, volume 58, numéro 1, cahier 251, printemps 2007.