[Ancestor] Lobingier

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1 M Christopher Lobingier ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - ? Germany
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           Died: 1772 4
         Buried:  - Hummelstown, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA

         Spouse: Unknown (      -Bet 1736/1739) 5

         Spouse: Anna Catherine Hubele (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 9 Sep 1739 5

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Lobingier

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The family records indicate that the name is of French origin, the original form having been "de Lotbiniere" or "de Lobiniere". In French pronunciation the "t" would have been silent. It is, further, interesting to note that this family was originally named "Chartier", the first of the family in France being Philippe Chartier, Receiver General of Accounts in 1374. One of his sons, Alain, born at Bayeux, probably in 1385, educated at University of Paris and entered the Royal Service, acting the dual role of Secretary and Notary to both Charles VI and the Dauphin, later Charles VII. He also carried out diplomatic missions to the Emperor Sigismond in Germany in 1424 and to Rome in 1425. Three years later he was sent to negotiate the marriage of Margaret of Scotland with the future Louis XI, the famous story of the kiss later bestowed on by Margaret, who claimed she saluted the golden words, not the ugly lips from which they came, is apocryphal. Nothing is known of his career after 1428, nor is it possible to determine the date of his death, which took place between 1430 and 1440, possibly at Avignon, France. He had a son, Cesar, killed in the seige of Peronne in 1468, whose son, Clement, married one of Brittany's richest heiresses, Mile, Gillette, de Chateaubourg. At this time, the surname de Lotbiniere was adopted by the family. Having purchased an Bas-Mains, a property called Biniere, in order to distinguish it from another he owned in Dijonnais, known as Bigniers, M. Clement Chartier added the word "Lot" because of the fish of that species in the moats of the Chateau. Several years later the estate became a Barony, and the family's surname from that time was Chartier de Lotbiniere, or simply Lotbiniere. Clement Chartier died in 1560, aged 104, and the indications are that the name was probably adopted about 1500. For a long time afterward the style remained fixed as Lotbiniere, the name being so recorded in all reference to the subsequent members of the family by F. Daniel in his "nos Glories Nationals, ou Histoire des Principles Families du Canada", Vol. I, PP. 177 - 178. ⁶

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 652.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 488.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 298.

4 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 39.

5 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 2.

6 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 1.