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- Lived at Chateau de Fayet (Fayet Castle)
- Last name also spelt "de Féderbe"
- Titles: Chevalier de Modave, Colonel, Royal Engineer and Knight of Saint Louis
- Chateau du Fayet - In 1573, Jean de Maniquet, owner of the premises, carried out enlargements with the cut stones from the demolition of the Delphine castle of La Buissière , ordered by Charles IX.
- Celebration of the marriage took place in the chapel of the Chateau de Fayet.
- Marriage document tells us that the father has already died and that the mother is Anne Marie de Modave is alive and gives her consent to the marriage.
There is also a reference made to Sion, a city in Switzerland concerning the husband's family. Their history seems linked to this city.
Document translated by Sabine Maronnier Capdet
- Maudave's family was famous in Belgium from the fourteenth century. The last descendant of the Counts of Maudave married, around 1665, the Chevalier de Féderbe, Ambassador to Switzerland, who obtained authorization to join that of Maudave to his name. (See the article by Dr Fremder in the Magasin picturesque of 1860, volume XXVIII
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