D'Aubert family
Aubert or d'Aubert is a family of the French nobility, and a branch belongs also to the Nobility of Denmark and to the Nobility of Norway. The family originates in the town of Thionville in Lothringen, where their progenitor Jean Aubert was a merchant. Today members live in France, in Denmark, in Norway, in Sweden, and in Germany.
France
The noble family of Aubert was founded in the Duchy of Lorraine with the ennoblement in 1612 of Jean Aubert, a merchant of Thionville.[1] This town was at the time in Habsburg possession and a part of the Holy Roman Empire until the its annexation by France in 1659.
Denmark and Norway
Jean d'Aubert's great-great-grandson, François Jacques Xavier d'Aubert (1727–1793) emigrated to Denmark in 1752 to take up a career in the Danish army.[1] He became a Dano-Norwegian nobleman in 1776.[1] Separate branches of the family descend from his two sons, both military men: Benoni d'Aubert (1768–1832) who moved to Norway and founded the Norwegian branch of the family, and Jacques d'Aubert (1769–1844), whose son Oskar Aubert was the ancestor of the Danish and German branches of the family.
Prominent members
- Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert (1807–1887), philologist
- Michael Conrad Sophus Emil Aubert (1811–1872), member of parliament
- Ebba d'Aubert née Bergström(1819–1860), Swedish pianist
- Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert (1838–1896), jurist and politician
- Andreas Aubert (1851–1913), art historian
- Vilhelm Aubert (1868-1908), jurist
- Axel Aubert (1873–1943), CEO of Norsk Hydro
- Vilhelm Aubert (1922-1988), sociologist
- Axel Aubert (b. 1973), actor
See also
References
- ^ a b c Store norske leksikon: Aubert at snl.no.
Literature
- Store norske leksikon: Aubert
- Achen, Sven Tito: Danske adelsvåbener : En heraldisk nøgle 1973, Copenhagen.
- Cappelen, Hans: Norske slektsvåpen 1969, Oslo. 2nd ed., 1976.
- Løvenskiold, Herman Leopoldus: Heraldisk nøkkel 1978, Oslo.
- Munthe, Christopher Morgenstierne: Norske slegtsmerker in Norsk slektshistorisk tidsskrift, vol. I. 1928, Oslo.
- Storck, H.: Dansk Vaabenbog 1910, Copenhagen.
- Thiset, Anders and Wittrup, P.L.: Nyt Dansk Adelslexikon 1904, Copenhagen.
- Skandinavisk Vapenrulla, vol. VI. 1966, Malmö.
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