Aubert (noble family)

Aubert or d'Aubert is a family of the French nobility, and a branch belongs also to the Nobility of Denmark and to the Nobility of Norway. The family originates in the town of Thionville in Lothringen, where their progenitor Jean Aubert was a merchant. Today members live in France, in Denmark, in Norway, in Sweden, and in Germany.

France

The noble family of Aubert was founded in the Duchy of Lorraine with the ennoblement in 1612 of Jean Aubert, a merchant of Thionville.[1] This town was at the time in Habsburg possession and a part of the Holy Roman Empire until the its annexation by France in 1659.

Denmark and Norway

Family coat of arms. Drawing from Norway 1820
Axel Aubert, CEO of Norsk Hydro.

Jean d'Aubert's great-great-grandson, François Jacques Xavier d'Aubert (1727–1793) emigrated to Denmark in 1752 to take up a career in the Danish army.[1] He became a Dano-Norwegian nobleman in 1776.[1] Separate branches of the family descend from his two sons, both military men: Benoni d'Aubert (1768–1832) who moved to Norway and founded the Norwegian branch of the family, and Jacques d'Aubert (1769–1844), whose son Oskar Aubert was the ancestor of the Danish and German branches of the family.

Prominent members

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Store norske leksikon: Aubert at snl.no.

Literature


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