480 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Henry de Lancy, above named, 1st Marquis de Raray, married 

 January 30th, 1633, Catharine d'Angennes, daughter of Louis 

 d'Angennes, Siegneur de la Loupe and his wife Francoise, daugh- 

 ter of Odet, Seigneur d' Auberville, Bailly of the city of Caen, in 

 Normandy, by whom he had, 1. Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lancy, 

 2d Marquis ; 2. Charles de Lancy-Raray, killed at the siege of 

 Lille, in 1667, unmarried; and 3. Marie Charlotte, wife of Louis 

 des Acres, Marquis de l'Aigle, who died in Paris, August 27th, 

 1734, aged 82 years. a 



1660. Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lancy, second Marquis de Raray 

 married 4th May, 1660, Marie Luce Aubery, daughter of Robert, 

 Marquis de Vatan, and had two sons, Charles Henry de Lancy, 



1679. third Marquis, made a page to the King in 1679, who, died 

 shortly after, unmarried, and Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lancy, 

 who succeeded his brother as fourth Marquis and died unmarried 



1680. not long after. Both these brothers died in 1680 ; and with them 

 ended the males of this branch of the family. Their sisters were 

 five, Henriette, wife of the Marquis de Crevecaeur; Catharine, 

 wife of the Seigneur de la Billarderie ; b Francoise, died unmar- 

 ried; Annette, died unmarried, and Marie Luce, wife of the 

 Comte de Nonant, who died 16th March, 1743, aged eighty. 



The Arms are blazoned in the "Armorial General de la France, " thus, 

 "Armes ; or, a l'aigle eployee de sable, charge sur l'estomac d'un ecusson 

 d'azur, a trois lances d'or, posees en pal, pointes en haut." In English, 

 Arms : Or, an eagle wings displayed, sable, charged on the breast with 

 a shield azure, three tilting lances or, in pale, points upward. 



On becoming a British subject, Etienne (or Stephen) de Lancey modi- 

 fied these arms which had originated before the use of crests in heraldry, 

 to make them more like those of English families, most of which have 



a Le Palais d'LHonneur, Paris, 1664, page 312, family "d'Angennes." 

 b In front of the altar at the Church of Vreberie, (department of Oise, France,) there is a 

 tombstone erected to this lady, iuscribed :— 



D. O. M. 



let repose 



Haute etpuissante Dame 



Madame Fkancoise de Lanci Rakai, dame 



des Terres et Seigneuries, d'Haramont, Ribecourt, 



Pimpre St. Germain et Ruy, en partie Chatelaine 



Hereditaire et eugagiste des Dumaines de Buthizy 



et Verbene, possides par ses peres depuisplus 



denx cents ans veuve de Messire Barthelemide 



Flahain, chevelier seigneur de la Billarderie Maitre 



de camp de Cavalerie, exempl des gardes du corps 



du Roi tue a la bataille de Mai plaqu *t. Ladite 



Damede la Billarderie est decedee la 25 Juin, 1724. 



agiee de 61 ana 



Priez pour son ame 



