Names of French Heralds (15th-18th centuries)

• Bretagne, roi d'armes:
  
  • René Guéguen, in 1532
• Champagne, roi d'armes:
  
  • Michel Gilles, in 1517
  • Simon Desplants, in 1532
• Normandie, roi d'armes:
  
  • Gabriel le Forestier, ennobled in 1517 for services rendered to Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII
  • Louis le Vigneron, in 1536
• Valois, roi d'armes:
  
  • Guillaume Allemetz, in 1527-1538, made castelan in 1538
• Dauphin, roi d'armes:
  
  • Jean Gros, in 1517
• Angoulême, hérault:
  
  • Charles Boisset, in 1537
• Guyenne, héault:
  
  • François Vallet, in 1527
• Orléans, hérault:
  
  • Pierre Raymon, in 1547: accused of murder!

Other heralds cited without names: Jean le Forestier, herald in 1534; Etienne Vallet, king of arms in 1530, Edmond du Boullay, herald, ennobled 1545; Robert Marie, herald of CHarles VIII.

The order of Saint-Michel had a hérault-roi d'armes. In 1548 Louis de Perreau was succeeded in this office by Pierre de La Tannerie.

Juges d'Armes

Office created by the Edict of June 1615.

• François de Chevriers de Saint-Mauris (d. 1641)
• Pierre d'Hozier (1592-1660)
• Louis Roger d'Hozier, his son, resigns 1675
• Charles-René d'Hozier, brother, resigns 1710
• Louis-Pierre (d. 1767), son of Louis-Roger
• Antoine-Marie d'Hozier de Sérigny, son, resigns 1788
• Ambroise Louis Marie d'Hozier, nephew (son of Denis-Louis, b. 1720), born 1764
• Abraham-Charles-Augustin (1776-1851), sold his family's manuscripts to the Bibliothèque nationale