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>Can anyone help me with information regarding the de Picquigny family from the town of Picquigny France. Some of them had the title Vidame d'Amiens and they appear to have been a family of some status in the area.
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>I also have information that relates to some members of the family apparently going to England around 1066 where they appear later in the Domesday book, but I cannot make a connection between the two groups despite the same name.
Any information would be gratefully recieved,
ksb
The community of Picquigny, on the Somme river, is located just west of Amiens (the principal city in the Picardie region) in the present-day department of the Somme in northern France.
For an explanation of the meaning of "vidame", and a brief history of the families that held the title "vidame d'Amiens", see "The Title of Vidame" at
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/vidame.htmFor what it's worth, the family of Picquigny has been extinct since the mid to late 1300s. The title continued, however, to be held by female-line descendants of the Picquigny family (e.g.: Marguerite, who married into the d'Ailly family, then this family became extinct in its turn, and its heiress married into the d'Albret family, etc...).
By doing a search for "vidame d'amiens" using the Yahoo! search engine (
http://search.yahoo.com), you'll find other worthwhile sites. Some sites are in French (others are in English), and many have genealogical information. As as start, here are two sites:
"Maison d'Albert" at
http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org/Regions/France/Albert.h..."Informations généalogiques" at
http://genealogie.bocquet.free.fr/dat3.htm