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  • Lieutenant des Maréchaux de France

    i have a relative whose occupation on the births of his children in the 1740's-1750's, among his many titles is : Lieutenant des Maréchaux de France.

    i can't find anything about this title. he seems to be a lieutenant of a marshal of france? not a marshal himself?

  • #2
    A google translation of part of this wikipedia page


    Organization
    In each bailiwick and Seneschal , shall be an office of lieutenant marshals of France, "to hear and determine any disputes that arise between the gentlemen, or making other military profession, or because of things, honorary rights of churches, pre-eminence of fiefs and lordships, or other disputes mixed with the point of honor .... ". Lieutenant marshals of France was essentially a conciliatory role.
    If conciliation fails, the case goes back to Paris to court marshals of France, which meets in the oldest of them.
    There needs to be at least four degrees of nobility to exercise this office.
    The records of this court are rare.
    .. and also google translate taken from here


    In the eighteenth century, the marshals of France have retained a power formerly exercised jurisdiction over the officers and gentlemen that jurisdiction over duels their court - the court of the point of honor - is to prevent and punish meetings between gentlemen, held for the crime of treason. In the provinces, it is their deputy lieutenant of the marshals of France, whose mission is to end the conciliation all disputes related to the point of honor among gentlemen, men of war and other disputes that could lead to a duel.
    Elaine







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    • #3
      so one of his jobs was to prevent duels? how interesting.

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