De la salle History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the De la salle family

The surname De la salle was first found in Auvergne, a historic province in south-central France where this distinguished family held a family seat at Montservier, Pélussieu, and Puygermand, and were also members of the aristocracy of that region.

The main line of the family at Pélussieu were elevated to the nobility as the Comtes de Pélussieu and the Marquis de Rochemaure. Another line seated at Auvergne emerged as the Marquis de la Sallé. Junior lines of this family settled in Brittany, Poitou, Bourgogne, Provence, and Languedoc.

Notables of this family were: Antoine de Lasale, French writer, 1386-1462; Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, 1640-1687, explorer, who descended the Mississippi and named the region of its delta Louisiana, in honor Louis XIV; Rene Lasalle, French explorer born 1643 and died in Louisiana in 1687; Comte Antoine Lasalle, French General, 1775-1809.

Jean LaSalle, born in 1672, son of Jean and Marie, was a French soldier for M. De Lormier, that travelled from France to the New World in the 17th century. After arriving in Canada he married Louise Jousset, daughter of Mathurin and Catherine, at Montreal, Quebec on 9th December 1698. 1

Early History of the De la salle family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our De la salle research. Another 28 words (2 lines of text) covering the years 1340, 1415, 1643, 1651, 1687, 1710 and 1719 are included under the topic Early De la salle History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

De la salle Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Lasallé, Lasalle, Lasall, Lasale, LaSalle, De Lasallé, De Lasalle, Salle and many more.

Early Notables of the De la salle family

Notable amongst the family was

Gadifer de La Salle (1340-1415), French knight and crusader of Poitevine origin who, with Jean de Béthencourt, conquered and explored the Canary Islands for the Kingdom of Castile
Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle or John Baptist de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle (1643-1687), French explorer of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico

De la salle migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

De la salle Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Theophile DeLaSalle, who arrived in New York in 1835 2

Contemporary Notables of the name De la salle (post 1700) +

Nicolas de la Salle (d. 1710), French diplomat, the first commissary appointed by the French king in the colony of Louisiana
Antoine de La Salle (1398-1470), French writer

The De la salle Motto +

The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.

Motto: Que sien tousten ligat amale

Sources +

Olivier, Reginald L. Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties. Logan: The Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, 1972. Print
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)