Source:
"The
Stoddard Family"
Compiled by Francis Russel Stoddard, Jr.
The Trow Press, New York, 1912
Text:
"James LeBaron Willard, sixth in descent from Francis LeBaron,
when a young man in college, was given by his grandfather James LeBaron, a
seal, which the latter said had come from his grandfather, Dr. Lazarus
LeBaron, who had said that it was the coat-of-arms of the family of Francis.
Mr. Willard lost the seal, but not before he had preserved a copy of it. A
genealogist in France was asked to look up the coat-of-arms and tell to
what family it belonged. His answer was that it belonged to the Lords of
Rohan, in the diocese of Vannes. Rohan, with its town, was first a
Viscounty and later a Dutchy. The coat-of-arms is "Gules, nine mascles or,
3,3,3" or "An escutcheon, red charged with nine open, golden lozenges
in rows of threes." The family of Rohan is famous in French history. The
senior branch is now established in Austria, where so many French nobles
took refuge at the time of the French Revolution. The present head of the
family, Prince Alan Rohan, not only traces his descent from the former
sovereign Dukes of Brittany but also from that first crusader King of
Jerusalem, whose title of Duc de Bouillon he bears. The senior branch has a
great estate in Sichrow, in Bohemia. Prince Alan Rohan's only sister,
Princess Bertha de Rohan, is the Duchesse de Madrid, widow of the Spanish
Legitimist Pretender, Don Carlos. It seems as if a little more effort ought
to uncover the secret of the early life of Francis LeBaron."
