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Variations Last name: de la Roche,de Rupe,Ruper
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Ancient and noble French family, known as (de) Rupe or Ruper, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has spread, over the centuries, in different European regions. From this House took origin the noble and powerful family de La Roche. Knights, then barons from the mid-13th century, the Rupe were the owners of the Lordship and of the castle of the same name in the canton of Fribourg. In the documents of the abbey of Hauterive they are mentioned as donors or witnesses, including the monk Guilelmus (1150) and the abbot Guillaume (1196-1200). The three branches of the family descend from the dominus Joranus de Rupe, mentioned for the first time in 1172. The line that originated from Guillaume I retained the lordship of La Roche. Its members were ministerial of the count Ulrich de Neuchâtel, vassals of the counts d'Aarberg, then of the lords de Vuippens (1263). In 1251 they ...
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BlazonRupe
Variations Last name: de la Roche,de Rupe,Ruper
1. Coat of arms of family: Rupe
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A montjoie soutenu par a fesse.
Sources: seal of Ulric de La Roche (Rupe), on 1257, quoted by Hubert de Vevey in "Armorial de la noblesse féodale du pays romand de Fribourg"; "Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Einleitungsband, Abt. A:Geschichte der Heraldik: Wappenwesen, Wappenkunst und Wappenwissenschaft, Erlangen und Görlitz 1890, 176".
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families