BRASSIEUR, Robert

1597 - Yes, date unknown  (~ 68 years)

• Name	BRASSIEUR, Robert
  Born	1597	Carpentras, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried	1665	Nasemond County, Virginia
  Person ID	I8290	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family	Florence
  Married	Abt 1619
  Children	1. BRASSIEUR, Benois,   b. Abt 1620, France ,   d. 16 Apr 1663, Calvert, Maryland, Unites States  (Age ~ 43 years)   2. BRASSIEUR, Mary,   b. 1622,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. BRASSIEUR, John,   b. 1624,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. BRASSIEUR, Thomas,   b. 1626,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. BRASSIEUR, Persie,   b. 1628,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. BRASSIEUR, Robert,   b. 1630,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. BRASSIEUR, Katherine,   b. 1632,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. BRASSIEUR, Martha,   b. 1636,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. BRASSIEUR, Margaret,   b. Sep 1642, Isle of Wight County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F2940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  This family became prominent in Nansemond County, Virginia in 1653. They moved to Calvert. County, MD in about 1658. He died in about 1665. !Book 975.5. G864 Greer, "Early Virginia Immigrants 1622-1666" has listings for Katherine, Bennet, Persie and Mary as 1653 immigrants by Robert BRASSEUR of Nansemond County, VA.. !Charles Brasheur (see A BRASSEUR FAMILY for details) research has not been able to prove the name of Robert's wife. ----- The BRASSEUR family from France to the USA. The name is also spelled: Brassieur, Brashieur, Brashear, Brashears, Brassure, Brasheur, Brazier, Brasier, Broshear, Boshear, Beshear, Breshear, Breashear, and many other ways. They settled in Nansemond Co., Virginia in 1653. They move to Calvert County, Maryland in about 1658. The name BRASSEIUR (BRAS = arm, as in a part of the body (not the weapon) and SEIUR = lord or knight, hence...Lord of Arm or Might by Strength. The first Brasseiur was a page, his descendents Lords and Knights. Robert Brasseur was a Huguenot, that is, Puritan-Protestant dissenters who followed the teachings of John Calvin. Most of the country (at that time) was Catholic. During the mid to late 1500s, Huguenots were openly persecuted and several thousand were slaughtered in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre that occured on 24 August 1572. Henry III of France feared the power of the Catholics and allied himself with Henry of Navarre and the Hughenots. After Henry III was assassinated, Henry of Navarre became King and granted religious freedom to the Hughenots in some 75 towns where they were the majority. The proclamation granting religious and political freedom was know as the Edict of Nantes, 13 April 1598. Even through the mid 1600s there were outbreaks and the Hughenots didn't get complete relief from oppression until the French Revolution, 1798.