ARRAS school, early 17th century - Lot 87

ARRAS school, early 17th century Portrait of Valentin Hanotel, Seigneur du Fresnoy, and his wife Oil on canvas, dated 1603; annotations stating that "Monsieur is represented in his 70th year and Madame in her 75th". 83 x 100 cm Valentin Hanotel, son of Philippe I, lieutenant of Cauchy and bailli of Ferfay, was received as a bourgeois of Arras on June 16, 1564, by finance of 6 carolus; he pursued an administrative career: procurator, clerk of taxes for Artois, collector of Pas and Pernes on September 28, 1556. In 1593 and 1596, he bought the fiefs of Vieil-Eps and Petit-Fresnoy from Sieur du Fresnoy, as part of the Terre de la Rachie. Valentin leaves 3 children: Jacques, who died on September 22, 1630, canon of Notre-Dame d'Arras. A graduate in law and lord of Vieil-Eps, it was he who, having been accepted as a bourgeois with his father, bought the land of Cauchy from the Baron de Monchy-Cayeux on September 3, 1630, which his heirs held until the French Revolution. Their descendants include members of the following families: Angot des Rotours, d'Anterroches, d'Artois, Basset-Chercot, Bertin, Biancale, de Boisgelin, Bonnafous, Bouquet-Delecey de Changey, Brillet de Candé, de Corta, du Cos de La Hitte, Daru, Decaux, Durieux, de Fraguier, de Galliard de Lavernée, Guinamard, de La Moussaye, Laurétan, Le Grand, Le Ricque, Le Sassier Boisaune, Lefebvre Delattre d'Hailly, de Masin, Perrot de Chézelles, Petitjean de Lagarde, Pichot de La Marandais, Pierson de Brabois, de Romand, de Romanet de Beaune, Roussel de Bouret, de Sanderet de Valonne, Serre, de Servins, de Servins d'Héricourt, Taffin de Givenchy, Valpergue de Masin, Verdon, de Villèle.