Anselm de Guibours

Pierre de Guibours ( as a layman ) or Père Anselme de la Vierge Marie ( as a monk ) (* 1625 in Paris, † January 17, 1694 ) was a French historian, genealogist and heraldry.

Life

Pierre de Guibours occurred on 31 March 1644 in the Order of the Discalced Augustinians, where he devoted his entire life genealogy. His works are:

• Le Palais de l' honneur ( 1663 ), which contains: - a complete treatise on heraldry - in addition to the genealogy of the ruling houses of Lorraine and Savoy.
• Le Palais de la gloire ( 1644) on the genealogy of a series of French but not French families.
• Science héraldique ( 1674).

However, his most important work is the Histoire de la maison royale généalogique de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne ( 1674, 2 volumes), a genealogy of the French royal house as well as its most important public official; this work was the proposal of his friend Honoré Caille, Seigneur du Fourny, according to the Père Anselme 's death in 1712 prompted a revision.

Père Anselme lived and died in the Augustinian monastery Couvent des Petits Pères near the Basilica of Notre- Dame-des- Victoires. His work was taken up by two monks of the Couvent and continued Baffard François ( Père Ange de Sainte- Rosalie ) and Paul Lucas ( Père Simplicien ), which published its first two volumes of a third edition in 1726. This edition later grew to nine folio volumes.

The work was generally made ​​on the basis of original documents and as accurately referenced that it is still of value.