Antoine de Pons, Count of Marennes (1510-1580) was hereditary sire of Pons, near Saintes in Charente-Maritime with 250 noble fiefdoms and 52 parishes. He was Count of Marennes, baron of island of Oléron (Ile d'Oléron), and had other lands in France. He was the governor of Saintonge and Saintes.
Saintonge was an isolated area and fitting for de Pon's rustic Huguenot court. Huguenot refugees came to the area. It became a religious and artsistic center, where heresy was common about 1560.
De Pons was a French military and political royal agent who was often at the court of Ferrara in Italy. His marriage to Anne de Parthenay resulted in the strengthening the couple's prestige and influence, due to their wealth, humanism, and religion.
AntoinedePons, Count of Marennes (1510-1580) was hereditary sire of Pons, near Saintes in Charente-Maritime with 250 noble fiefdoms and 52 parishes....
Parthenay married AntoinedePons, their wealthy and prestigious families became more influential. She helped her husband AntoinedePons, Count of Marennes...
de' Medici, from 1600 until 1632. She was foremost known as Madame de Guercheville. Antoinette was the daughter of AntoinedePons-Ribérac, comte de Marennes...
Alice Joséphine Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976), known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic lyric coloratura soprano and...
as judges of their tenso, composed after 1210, and Elias de Barjols also mentions Pons. Pons is also mentioned by Gervase of Tilbury in his Otia Imperialia...
de Parthenay, wife of AntoinedePons. On 9 May 1553, he married Antoinette d'Aubeterre, daughter of François II, Baron d'Aubeterre, and Isabelle de Saint-Seine...
The Keep of Pons (French: Donjon dePons) is an 830-year-old fortified tower located in Pons, France and is one of the few remnants of the original castle...
Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɡastɔ̃ də ʁɔklɔʁ]; 1656-6 May 1738) was a French nobleman and Marshal of France. He was also...
Antoinede Forbin des Issarts La Barben (1903–1987). De Forbin, last marquess of Forbin-la Barben, sold château de La Barben to his friend André Pons...
de Choisy 1837 - 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper 1839 - 1841 Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Augustin Gourbeyre 1841 - 1843 Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval...
comets discovered by Pons include 7P/Pons–Winnecke, 12P/Pons–Brooks, and 273P/Pons–Gambart, among many others. (see also Comet Pons) Pons also discovered comets...
31 May 1727) was a French sculptor. His brother Pons Dedieu (also a sculptor) was grandfather of Antoine Raspal and great-grandfather of Jacques Réattu...
softening of the brain caused by obstruction of the blood vessels of the pons. The condition was to become known as "Millard–Gubler syndrome", named in...
Raymond Pons, Count of Toulouse Raymond III, Count of Toulouse Raymond (IV), Count of Toulouse William III, Count of Toulouse Raymond Hugh Pons, Count...
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