Ennobled 9 Aug 1583 and verified 6 Mar 1584 with the title of Lord Seigneur
de Rosieres en Blois en Breuil, Councilor in Law, Secretary to his Royal
Altesse Monseigneur le Grand Duc Charles III de Lorraine, and Eschevin of
Lorraine, Sheriff of the Court of Nancy and presently Lieutenant General of
the Bailiwick of Voges of Nancy. These letters gave him the right to carry
arms

He inherited from his mother the Manor of Rosieres, which belonged to her
mother, as shown by the proven will of her mother the Marchioness de
Busancy. Earlier title to the Marquisat de Busancy were made at Pont a
Mousson in May 1350 and by an Act of March 31, 1420, and by a last Act made
October 23, 1566 the Seigneuri came into possession of Nicholas Remy.

Arms of the Family Rosieres: "D'or a deux leopards d'azur courtaourne armes
et lampasses d'gueles l'un autre la Bordure engraille d'gueules."

1. "Tranchee d'azur a deux serpens volants, affrontes d'argent, mouchettes,
allumes et armes de Gueules." Motto: "Semper Fidelus".

2. "Porte d'or ecartele en sautoir d'azur, a deux serpens volants et
affrontes d'argent, mouchettes, Allumes et armes d'gueules, et pour Cimier
un serpent de l'ecu." Motto: "Semper Fidelus"

3. "Porte d'or flanche d'azur, a deux serpens affrontes d'argent,
mouchettes, allumes et armes de Gueules, timbre d'un serpent de l'ecu".
Done at Thiacourt le August 9, 1583. Motto: "Semper Fidelus".

4. "Ecartele ensautoir; aux 1 et 4 d'or plein; aux 2 et 3 d'azur, a deux
dragons volans et affrontees d'argent, mouchettes, allumes et armes de
gueules. Cimier un dragon de l'ecu" (A field of blue divided by a St
Andrews Cross; 1 and 4 of gold; 2 and 3 of blue; with 2 flying dragons
facing of silver. Crest: A silver dragon flying with beak and claws of red
and mantle of silver and blue). Motto: "Semper Fidelus". Sources:
"Manus. Francais; Folio 24, verfd, Registrd 1584".

Nicolas Remy, the French magistrate, while States Attorney under Duke Henri
II, became very unpopular by his severity against unfortunates accused of
Sorcery and Witchery (1576-1591) and during a space of 16 years, he sent
more than 800 of these to death or corporeal punishment, even having had
children of 6 and 7 stripped and scourged while they walked around the stake
used to burn their parents. "The force he showed in exercising his
functions in these cases got him the nickname of Tourquemada of Lorraine.
This nickname he seemed to have justified by his publishing a book in Lyons
in 1595 entitled Remegii Daemonolatreia." Said Bexton, "It would be
difficult to find a monument, at the same time more horrible and shameful,
and filled with more monstrous cruelty or greater vengeance. He seemed to
have lost his mind, which was filled with monstrous visions, and all the the torture which he had made these unfortunates undergo, lest he be
bewitched himself. All that darkest delirium could create of horrible and
unholy dreams, that vile cunningness ever imagined of black unpowerful
ridiculous character, which was a continual profanation of the words of the
Scripture, he used to support his actions."

He also published the Historie of Lorraine, from Nicolas to Rene II, ie,
1474-1508. This was published at Pont a Mausson in 1617 and at Operia in
1626.

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