Quentin family
In the 12th century, the fifth child of a family from the village of Graffigny-chemin in the heart of the county of Champagne was born.
He passed on to his descendants the name ‘Quentin’ (from the Latin Quintus = fifth).
The Quentin family traces its earliest roots back to this small village and the Quentin family can be identified as landowners from the middle of the 16th century (Jean I, Jean II, Jean III, Claude) to the middle of the 18th century with François Quentin (1694-1757).
His son Claude François Quentin (1738-circa 1820).
At the age of 18, he joined the royal army in 1756 when the 7 Years' War was launched by Frederick the Great, drawing Prussia and England against France in particular.
He was taken prisoner along with 8,000 other Frenchmen and taken to Prussia.
On his return, he was promoted to officer.
In 1769, this status enabled him to marry Anne Marguerite Poirot de Valcourt (1743-1810), daughter of Jean Poirot de Valcourt, subdelegate of the Governor of Lorraine and Governor of Château-Salins.
This marriage enabled him to give up his military career to succeed his father-in-law in his important administrative functions.
Had he not been a nobleman, these functions ennobled him, as did his marriage to the Poirot de Valcourt family.
Claude was now the Royal Mayor of Château Salins; Subdelegate of the Lorraine and Barrois Intendancy; Private Master of Waters and Forests; Judge, First Councillor of the Château Salins Town Hall, Chief of Police.
His son Jean Joseph Quentin (1770-1845), a Lieutenant Colonel in the Cavalry and a Knight of Saint Louis, married Agnès de Poligny, the eldest hereditary daughter of the Counts of Poligny, in 1821.
Jean Poirot de Valcourt
1696-after 1769
Anne Quentin (née Poirot de Valcourt) 1696-after 1769
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