DAUPHINEE Name History
MONTBÉLIARD SETTLER GENEALOGY
To assist those readers who are
unclear as to the location of Montbéliard, it lies north of Switzerland, west
of the Rhine and of Alsace.
Between 1954 and 1960, a Lutheran
pastor in Montbéliard , named Charles Mathiot, published a treatise noting 463
surnames which were found in the former Principality of Montbéliard. It
appeared in the French Lutheran monthly, L'Ami Chrétien, as a serial item.
The Mathiot articles are on about thirty surnames which continued (sometimes in
garbled form) to be used in Nova Scotia beyond the first few years of arrival in
this province.
Unfortunately, Pastor Mathiot gives no entries for the surnames Dauphinee,
Jolimois, Langille and Tattrie, names which reached Nova Scotia. A few comments
offered were that the name suggests one who came from the Dauphine, an area
centred about Grenoble and which passed to French rule in the 14th century. The
name appears in records of Beutal early in the 1700’s.
Nova Scotia's Montbéliard Names
by Terrence M. Punch
Reprinted from The Nova Scotia Genealogist by Art Rhyno
http://www.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/people/art/names.html#BOUTEILLER
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THE DAUPHINE COAT OF ARMS*
Guigues
IV carried the title of Dauphin (Dolphin) for the first time in the XII century
(1100's). The symbol of the dolphin
is probably a legacy of the crusade. The agile dolphin gained support in the
Middle Ages as an animal of salvation and triumph. Henceforth were they not to
be held responsible for all shipwrecked cruises? It was the Counts of Auvergne
(The Auvergne** Region is East of Montbéliard ) who first adopted the
dolphin in its emblem, on returning from the first crusade conceived by Pope
Urbain II in 1095. The families of Velay, Forez and the Viennois very quickly
copied them.
(Grenoble Magazine, pg.49)
*Note: The Dauphine family
name comes not from the royal Dauphins but from the Dauphine area of France,
which was associated with the royal Dauphin. We can't use the coat-of-Arms because it'd
be like somebody named "Welch" using the coat of arms
of the Prince of Wales.
**Auvergne is said to be geographically the heart of France. It's also its spiritual heart, as on this land is born the French national identity, because in its plateau (at Gergovie) the Gallic armies of Vercingetorix defeated the Romanian legions of Cesar.
The Region of Auvergne
forms a rough triangle with Moulins at the apex and Aurillac and Le Puy at the
bottom corners.
Home of the shinest Gallic Arvernes’ civilisation, Auvergne remained one of the last bastion of Romanity under the aegis of a militar and episcopal dynasty. Formed with the valley of Auvergne, Bourbonnais and Velay, the region belonged to the neighbour kingdom of Aquitaine before to be divided in many earldoms that the royal domain absorbed. It's actually organized in 4 departments : Cantal, Allier, Puy de Dome and Haute Loire. In this thermal earth you could find many spas with notorious sources of water.
http://www.terroirs-of-france.com/english/regions/auvergne/carte.htm
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