page_title: Forcade
section_title: Forcade-Biaix family members
hierarchical_section_title: Forcade / The Forcades of Pau: sieurs de Lafitte, sieurs de Biaix / Forcade-Biaix family members
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat-of-Arms, Forcade, Marquies de Biaix, Prussian Branch, pre-1856
context_page_description: Forcade, also written Fourcade, Forcada, Forquade, Forquada, Forcade, Fourcade, Laforcade and Lafourcade belongs to the nobility of Guyenne and Gascony, in France, and of the Kingdom of Prussia. The family traces its roots to Béarn and the Kingdom of Navarre.
  In old Béarnese, the letters "f" and the "h" were used interchangeably. Any variations using the letter "h", such as Horcade, Hourcade, Horcada, Horquade, Horquada, Horcade, Hourcade, Lahorcade and Lahourcade, can be considered as meaning the same.
context_section_description: Coat of Arms: An escutcheon with the field divided into four parts. Left half: argent tincture with a lion gules holding a sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws; azure tincture charged with three mullets or; Right half: argent tincture with a gules castle with three towers; sinople tincture charged with three roses argent below it. A Grafenkrone (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with an or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: "In Virtute Pertinax".
  Heraldic symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A count's coronet to demonstrate rank and because the family originally served the counts of Foix and Béarn during the English Wars of the late Middle Ages.
  Nobles, Gentlemen and Seigneurs de Biaix (in Béarn and Prussia). The founder of the branch was a Forcade de Rontignon for a short period prior to acquiring Biaix.
  The Forcade-Biaix in Pau, were Legislators at the Parliament of (Lower) Navarre, Presidents of the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre (the Court of Auditors) and officers of the Mint in Pau. This branch of the family and their ancestors were Protestant from the time of the Reformation in France until 1684. One of the fourteen known children emigrated to Prussia in 1683. The founder of the family line and his eldest son converted back to Catholicism following the Dragonnades and the Edict of Fontainebleau. What happened to the other children is a matter of speculation.
  The early generations of the Forcade-Biaix family line, as well as their immediate direct ancestors, had close alliances in marriage, property and careers, in particular on the Parliament of (Lower) Navarre and its financial branches, such as the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre (the Court of Auditors), in Pau, dating back to the early 16th century, with the families d'Abbadie, (de Badie), de Bordes, de Casamajor, d'Espalungue and d'Espalungue, Baron d'Arros, de Gassion, de Lons, Counts de Sanson, de Navailles and de Salies. These names appear and reappear together in notarial acts and parish records related to the family from the 15th–17th centuries.
  The history of the Forcade-Biaix branch is complicated by the publication of false information concerning its origins in several affluent publications on the topic of nobility in Prussia and Europe. The first known publication of such information was in 1767, about 80 years after immigration in Prussia. The same information was reproduced in various forms in publications during the first half of the 19th century. One can only speculate if the information was knowingly furnished as false, or if it was the innocent result of confusing names that had been handed down verbally from two earlier generations already deceased. Claims published in the same publications that they held the rank of Marquis were, however, deliberately false.
  The Forcade-Biaix family name was still represented in France in 1874 in the person of Edmond-Hector de Forcade-Biaix, a property owner in Dunkerque. It was claimed, without citations, that the Forcade-Biaix name and branch extinguished in France in 1922.
  Noble Jean de Forcade, Seigneur de Biaix († 1684), Huissier at the Parliament of Navarre (1644-62), Fermier des monnaies de Béarn et (Lower) Navarre]] (Lessee of the Mints of Béarn and (Lower) Navarre). Jean de Forcade was admitted to the Order of Nobility of the Estates of Béarn as Seigneur de Rontignon. on 30 August 1658. With his purchase of Biaix in 1659, he is the founder of the Forcade-Biaix family line. He was subsequently received into the Order of Nobility of the Estates of Béarn as Seigneur de Biaix on 10 June 1659. He was the son of Isacq de Forcade and his wife Marie de Bordes. He married with Madeleine de Lanne (died after 1688) at the P
caption: Coat-of-Arms, Forcade, Marquies de Biaix, Prussian Branch, pre-1856[439]
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