House of Sabran
The House of Sabran was an illustrious Provençal family of knightly extraction extinguished in 1847 in the person of , general, made a hereditary peer of France in 1815, comte-pair (count-peer) in 1817, and duc-pair (duke-peer) in 1825. Among its members are two Catholic saints, three bishops, and five generals. Because his marriage with Victorine-Antoinette de Pontevès was childless, he named as his heirs the two nephews of his wife: Edouard and Léonide de Pontevès-Bargème, in whose favor a royal ordinance of 1828, and 1829 letters-patent, authorised the transmission of the  title of Duke of Sabran. The name de Sabran has since been carried by the de Pontevès family, through the adoption in 1832. Origin. The name stemmed from the barony of Sabran near Bagnols sur Cèze in the north of the "département" of Gard. The barony also possessed in Provence significant assets in the town of Beaucaire, as well as a portion of the city of Uzès, which fell to it as a result of the marriage around 1156 of Rostaing II to Roscie du Caylar, granddaughter of Elzéart d'Uzès. The ancient old, former lords of Sabran styled themselves by  the grace of God, constables of the counts of Toulouse. The family was very proud to count two Catholic saints among its members : Elzéar de Sabran, canonized in 1369, and his wife Dauphine or Delphine, proclaimed "bienheureuse", for their mystic love and their love for the humble. Procession is still made for them every September in Ansouis, whose lordly domain has belonged to their family since the 10th century, then belonged to it again from 1836 to 2008. Several of its members were knights of the order of Malta, marshalls of the kingdom of Naples or officers of high rank  in the royal navy (Marine royale) in France. They were also counts of Ariano, sovereign counts of Forcalquier, counts of Sabran, then of Sabran-Pontevès, baron of Ansouis, and peers and dukes of France. The family was received to the Honneurs de la Cour. House of Sabran in history. The House of Sabran descends from Charles Martel through his son Pepin the Short. He then became the husband of Bertrade de Laon who respectively gave birth to Mathilde and Gueraud d'Auvergne, the couple at the origin of the Amic de Sabran and of the Sabran (families). XVIII century – present– Pierre  Cardin would receive as part of an inheritance the château and the village of La Roque, as well as its dependencies 18th century – present– In 2009 at the auction for the families ancestral Château of Ansouis, after Pierre Cardin having been outbid, a second sale took place by the 3rd Duke for the benefit of Gérard et Frédérique Rousset-Rouvière, who acquired it for 5.6 million Euros. List of Dukes of Sabran. House of Sabran (extinguished) : House of Ponteves : Family tree. Rostaing de Sabran, lord of Tresques and of Lirac, advisor to the count of Toulouse Properties of the Sabran -Pontevès family