Saboulin Bollena Explained

The Saboulin Bollena family (or Sebolin, or Sabolin) is one of the oldest French aristocratic families,^[1] from the old feudal nobility of Provence.^[2]

History

They lived until 1620 in Var^[3] in the cities of Brignoles and Signes where several generations served as Captain General.^[4] Furthermore, Francois de Saboulin Bollena, lord of La Motte-du-Caire, first Consul of the city of Hyères,^[5] was a deputy sent from the States of Provence to the Estates-General of the kingdom held at Paris in 1614.^[6]

The oldest branch of the family next settled in Marseille. In 1668 they were maintained in there nobility by the commissioner appointed by the King in Provence.^[7] Pierre de Saboulin Bollena was ealdorman^[8] and distinguished himself by the help he gave to the charities for the Holy Land and for the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem,^[9] and Francois de Saboulin Bollena, first ealdorman and Mayor,^[10] secretary to the King, House and Crown of France.^[11]

They intermarried with the families of Beausset, d'Ortigues, Glandevès, d'Amalric, Pontevès-Maubousquet, Valavoire, Clapiers-Collongues, Robineau de Beaulieu, d'Adaoust, Tressemanes-Simiane, Félix de La Ferratière, Guerrier de Dumast.

They participated in the growth of the shipping industry^[12] in Marseille through trade with the ports of the Levant - Chios,^[13] Constantinople,^[14] Sidon^[15] - but also with Tetouan,^[16] Morocco. They were the first shipowners to organize maritime trade between Marseilles and the West Indies.^[17] The present-day Museum of the Old Marseille one of the oldest houses in the city called the "Maison Diamantée" was the mansion-house of the Saboulin Bollena.^[18] Armand de Saboulin Bollena served in the French Navy and was injured during the American Revolutionary War.

A branch of the Saboulin family remained in Bayonne,^[19] during the 17th^[20] and 18th^[21] centuries, from which came several generations of corsairs,^[22] one of them Michel de Saboulin migrated to Martinique at the end of the 18th century. Jean de Saboulin was a deputy representing the nobility at the General Assembly of the State of the Basque Country in 1789.^[23]

Since the second part of the 18th century the family was settled in Nice and Aix-en-Provence,^[24] where the oldest branch lived in the castle of Lanfant near Luynes.^[25] Other branches lived in Barjac, Lozère at the castle of La Vigne,^[26] and in Vannes, Brittany.

Notes and References

1. Régis Valette, Catalogue de la noblesse française contemporaine, Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1977
2. Louis Ventre d'Artefeuil, Histoire héroïque et universelle de la noblesse de Provence, volume 2, p. 352, and volume 3 (supplement) pp. 307-309, 1776
3. Abbé Dominique Robert de Briançon, L'État de la Provence, vol. 3, Paris 1693
4. Abbé V. Saglietto, La Commune de Signes (Étude archéologique et historique, 1935)
5. Duval & Lalourcé, Recueil de pièces originales et authentiques concernant la tenue des états-généraux, vol. 5, Paris 1789
6. Augustin Thierry, The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France vol. 2 [1856], APPENDIX II: LISTS OF THE DEPUTIES OF THE TIERS ÉTAT TO THE STATES-GENERAL OF 1484, 1560, 1576, 1588, 1593, AND 1614
7. Louis Ventre d'Artefeuil, Histoire héroïque et universelle de la noblesse de Provence, volume 2, p. 352, and volume 3 (supplement) pp. 307-309, 1776
8. Paul Masson, Les Bouches-du-Rhône : encyclopédie départementale, 1932
9. Henri Ternaux-Compans, Lettre écrite de Jérusalem le 11 juin 1698 au sujet du rétablissement de l'église du Saint Sépulcre, accordée aux religieux de Saint François sur la demande de l'Ambassadeur du Roy à la Cour Ottomane - extracted from Mercure galant, October 1698, in "Archives des voyages ou Collection d'anciennes relations inédites ou très-rares de lettres, mémoires, itinéraires et autres documents relatifs à la géographie et aux voyages, suivies d'analyses d'anciens voyages et d'anecdotes relatives aux voyageurs", 1840, p. 207
10. Revue de Marseille et de Provence, volume 16, Marseilles, 1870, p. 6
11. Abraham Tessereau, Histoire chronologique de la grande Chancellerie de France, vol. 2, Paris 1706
12. Gabriel-Joseph Lavergne-Guilleragues, Correspondance, 1976
13. Philip Pandely Argenti, Diplomatic archive of Chios, 1577-1841, volume 1, University Press, 1954
14. Edhem Eldem, French trade in Istanbul in the eighteenth century, 1999
15. Maurice H. Chéhab, Documents diplomatiques et consulaires relatifs à l'histoire du Liban et des pays du Proche-Orient du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, volume 1, no. 2, éditions des œuvres politiques et historiques, 1975
16. Henri Marie de La Croix Chastries (comte de), Les sources inédites de l'histoire du Maroc de 1530 à 1845, vols. 1 & 4, E. Leroux, 1931
17. Charles Carrière, Négociants marseillais au XVIIIe siècle : contribution to l'étude des économies maritimes, volume 1, Institut historique de Provence, 1973 p. 68
18. http://www.marseille.fr/sitevdm/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?document_id=601&portlet_id=789 La Maison Diamantée ou l'Oustau Bigarrado pouncho de diamant
19. Mercure de France, novembre 1746
20. Société des sciences, lettres & arts de Bayonne, bulletin numéros 114 à 119, p. 460/461
21. Recueil de documents relatifs à la convocation des États Généraux de 1789, bailliage de Labourd
22. Édouard Ducéré, Histoire maritime de Bayonne : les corsaires sous l'Ancien Régime, 1895
23. Louis de la Rocque et Édouard de Barthélemy, Catalogue des gentilshommes en 1789, 1866
24. René Borricand, Les Hôtels particuliers d'Aix-en-Provence, 1971
25. Antoine C. Sfeir, Le Domaine de Lanfant, mémoire sous la direction du professeur Éric Mension-Rigau, université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 2009. (extrait tiré de)
26. Web site: Barjac France du Sud . www.francedusud.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100811033137/http://www.francedusud.com/languedoc-roussillon/lozere/vallee-du-lot/barjac.html . 2010-08-11.