French Empire Nobility n°6

ARDOINO

Nicolas ARDOINO (1751-????), baron of the empire, with institution of majorat, by letters patent of 8 April 1813, mayor of Diano-Marina, president of the body of electors of Port-Maurice. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a phoenix reappearing Argent on a rough-hew allumee Gules and on the dexter is set in chief a sun in splendour Or; to the quarter of the barons mayors.

ARENBERG

Louis-Engelbert-Marie-Joseph-Augustin, prince of ARENBERG (1750-1820), count of the empire by letters patent of 26 April 1808, senator, 19 May 1806, knight of Golden fleece. Regulation of coats of arms:

Quarterly: to the 1st, of the counts senators, a bordure Vert; to the 2nd, Or plain; to the 3rd, Or, a fess checky Argent and Gules; to the 4th, Gules, 3 flowers of medlar trees Or 2 and 1.

Title of hereditary peer (without majorat of peerage), in favour of Pierre-d'Alcantara-Charles-Marie, prince of Arenberg, by the ordinance of 5 November 1827. Coats of arms:

Gules, 3 flowers of neufliers Or, seeded of the field.

ARJUZON

Gabriel-Thomas-Marie DARJUZON or d'ARJUZON (1761-1851), count of the empire by letters patent of 2 February 1809, large officer of the coronet of Holland, knight of honour of the queen of Holland, peer of France (2 June 1815 and 5 March 1819), resigner in 1832, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a chevron Argent accompanied of three spearheads of the same; a bordure Or; to the quarter of the counts presidents of body of electors.

Title of hereditary count confirmed in favour of Gabriel-Thomas-Marie DARJUZON, count of the Empire, owner, by letters patent of 27 January 1815. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a chevron Argent, accompanied of three spearheads of the same; a bordure Or.

Title of hereditary peer in favour of the same, by ordinance of 5 March 1819 and bench to the title of baron-peer, on majorat of peerage (grounds district of Dreux), forming the majorat previously instituted on 2 February 1809, by letters patent of 13 March 1820, with new payment of coats of arms:

Azure, a chevron Argent, accompanied of three spearheads of the same.

Transmission of the title and majorat of baron-peer conferred to Gabriel-Thomas-Marie d'ARJUZON, by letters patent by 2 February 1809 and 13 March 1820 (these last modifying the title of count in that of baron, for the plate of hereditary peerage), confirmed in favour of his/her son junior, Felix-Jean-François-Thomas, count of ARJUZON, by ministerial order of 6 December 1852.

Transmission of the title of hereditary count and majorat to the title of baron-peer conferred to Gabriel-Thomas DARJUZON, by letters patent of 2 February 1809 and of 13 March 1820, confirmed in favour of the elder grandson in primogeniture, Georges-Jacques-Marie Of ARJUZON, by ministerial order of 3 April 1875.

ARMAND

Claude-Joseph ARMAND (1764-1840), baron of the empire by letters patent of 2 August 1808, donee on Westphalia on 17 March 1808, colonel of infantry, commander. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a dexter arm Or issuing of the sinister, holding a banner deployed also Or and accompanied of two palm leaves Argent; to the quarter of the military barons.

ARMAND

Joseph ARMAND (1772-1845), knight of the empire by letters patent of 25 March 1813; donee on the Apennines on 16 June 1812, major of infantry, retired lieutenant-colonel, Officer of the Legion Of Honour. Regulation of coats of arms:

Or, a fess Gules, charged of the mark of knights of the Legion of Honour, and accompanied in chief of a hunting horn Azure, traversed in fess by sword Gules, base in dexter, and in base of a fort Gules, supported and terrassed of the same, issuant of a river Vert.

ARMAND

Authorisation of port of the title of Roman count, conferred to Ernest ARMAND, charged of business and ambassador plenipotentiary, by pontifical brief of 26 November 1867, granted in favour of the same by imperial decree of 4 July 1868. Regulation of coats of arms:

Ermine, 3 annulets Gules, intertwined in triangle, kittens hilted , the 1st, of the tiara, the 2nd, of the imperial coronet, and the 3rd, of a she-wolf.

ARNAUD

Jean-Baptiste ARNAUD (1755-1823), baron of the empire by letters patent of 28 May 1809, donee in Westphalia on 17 March 1809, colonel of infantry, brigadier general, commander; knight of Saint-Louis. Regulation of coats of arms:

Quarterly : to the 1st, Sable, 2 mullets Or set in fess; to the 2nd, of the military barons; to the 3rd, Azure, a facing the sinister ancient helmet Or, shandy Argent; to the 4th, Or, a rampant greyhound Sable collared Argent.

ARNAUD

Jean-Baptiste ARNAUD (1753-1829), knight of the empire by letters patent of 28 January 1809, Attorney General to the criminal Court of the Low-Alps, honorary president, deputy of the Low-Alps (1827-1830), Knight of the Legion of Honour. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a chevron Argent accompanied in chief of two mullets, and in base of a tower, the whole of the same; to the terrace in base Gules charged of the mark of knights of the Legion of Honour.

ARNAUD OF CLERMOND

Charles-Théodore ARNAUD OF CLERMONT (1756-????), knight of the empire by letters patent of 5 October 1808, president of the body of electors of Meuse-Lower, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a castle Argent embattled and windows Sable, closed Gules, accompanied of two turrets also Argent, and supported of a terrace in base Sable, a fess Or debruising, surmounted of three annulets of the same; on the dexter is set of a third Gules charged of the mark of knights of the Legion of Honour.

ARNAUD OF VITROLLES

Eugène-François-Auguste ARNAUD OF VITROLLES (1774-1854), baron of the empire by letters of 15 June 1812, member of the body of electors of Hautes-Alpes, minister and Secretary of State, peer of France, 27 January 1830, ambassador, Large Officer of the Legion of Honour. Regulation of coats of arms:

Tierced per fess: Azure, a lily erased Or; Sable, a bend Or; and Gules, a rose Argent; over all, Azure, a lion Or, armed and langued Gules; to the quarter of the barons of the body of electors.

Title of hereditary peer (without majorat of peerage) by ordinance of 27 January 1830, in favour of Eugene-François-Auguste of ARNAUD, baron of Vitrolles. Regulation of coats of arms:

Per bend Azure on Gules, to a bend Or, fimbriated Sable, debruising on the per bend, accompanied in chief of a lys flower Or and, in base of a rose Argent, which is of ARNAUD OF the ROUSSET, and charged in middle fess point of an escutcheon Azure, to the lion Or, which is of ARNAUD OF VITROLLES.