The Patricians: Count Geoffroi IV de La Tour-Landry (1320 - 1391) - Author of "Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry" - Author's 20th Great-Grandfather

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Geoffroy was a bona fide knight of the highest chivalric order in medieval France. The Anjou nobleman presented his banner and retinue at all the battles he fought during the One Hundred Years War era.

He wrote Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles du Chevalier de La Tour Landry out of concern for the chastity and sophistication of his three daughters who were coming of age as debutantes at the French royal court. Tragically, the similar version he wrote for his sons did not survive long after his death.

William Caxton (1420 - 1492), England's first mechanical printer, printed his English translation of .The Book of the Knight of the Tower for King Edward V (Edward III's 4th great-grandson) in 1484. He is also historically renowned as being the first printed book publisher in England.

In 1493, the German edition, entitled .Der Ritter vom Turn, was published in Basel, Switzerland. Marquard vom Stein, a member of one of the oldest Swabian aristocratic families, translated the French text for the benefit of his two daughters. Albrecht Dürer produced a series of wonderful woodcut illustrations. The only surviving copy is in the printed books collection of The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

The book was required reading for European school children as part of their standard educational curriculum during the Late Middle Ages and beyond.

Geoffroi's son Charles was slain at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415. It could be said the flower of French chivalry forever perished that day whilst mired in the mud under the murderous rain of English arrows.

Either Charles or his grandson Pontus wrote the medieval prose roman .Pontus and Sidonia . Bibliophile Eleonora of Austria (1433-1480), daughter of King James I Stewart of Scotland, translated the French text into German. Her copy was widely circulated to the European aristocracy community during her lifetime.

Around 1475, Margarethe of Savoy commissioned a magnificently illustrated edition of the original German translation. The digitalized version of the book is available for online viewing and download.

The first record of the Landry lineage (the surname is the second oldest in French history) in France appears with mention of a forebear who was recorded as being a military adviser of Clovis I (466 - 511). Around 1060, Landricus Dunesis built the tower and fortress named Tour de la Landry at Chemillé, Maine-et-Loire. It became the meeting place of the first Guild of Knights. Destroyed in the 11th century, the tower was later rebuilt.

Other notables of the Landry lineage include the following:

-Saint Landry, Bishop of Seez, born in the 5th Century ca.450.
-Bishop Saint Landry (Landericus) of Paris (died c. 661), founded Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, France's first hospital.
-Saint Landry of Savoy was born around 1050 at Bonneval or Lanslevillard.
-Landri, Mayor of the Palace (539 A.D.) Another early historical account of a Landry can be found in the 6th century (593 A.D.), the person of "Landri", "Mayor of the Palace", military leader and advisor of Clotaire II. Clotaire II was a descendant of Childeric I (437-481 A.D.) who was the first king of the Franks.
-St Landry (Landericus), Bishop of Paris (650-661), third Landry recorded in history.
-St Landry, Bishop (Abbott) of Metz (or Landericus of Metz), fourth Landry recorded in history.
-Pierre Landry (1603-1701), employed by booksellers and engraved many frontispieces, portraits, and other subjects. His best prints are his portraits among which is one of Charles de Bourbon, Bishop of Roissons, done in 1660.
-Rene Landry l'aine (1618--), arrived in Acadia in 1640 from La Chausee, France, and married Perrine Bourg. The progenitor of one line of Landrys in Canada.
-Rene Landry le Jeune (1634 – 1693; my 11th great-uncle), progenitor of the Landrys of Maritime provinces in Canada and ultimately that of a large group of Landrys in Louisiana.
-Captain Pierre Joseph Landry (1770-1843), commander of a company in the 8th Louisiana Regiment in the War of 1812 (Battle of New Orleans) and accomplished woodcarver.
-Jean Traisimond Landry, born December 16, 1795, Ascension Parish, son of Joseph Landry and Anne Bujol. Second lieutenant, Seventh Regiment of Louisiana Militia, War of 1812.
-Colonel Joseph Octave Landry, born in St. Martin Parish, La. on February 11, 1834.
-Jean Traisimond Landry, elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana in 1845.
-Auguste Charles Phillipe Robert Landry (1846-?), his father was a surgeon of the Province of Quebec and one of the founders of Laval University.
-Joseph Paul Landry Sr. (1853-?), founder of Halfway Plantation in Terrebonne Parish, La., and owner of one of the first oil wells there in 1917 called the Wildcat.
-Luke Valcour Landry, Jr. (1873-1963), noted attorney and father of Gen. Robert B. Landry.
-Dr. Paul Bernard Landry, born in 1880 in Iberia Parish, La., practiced private and military medicine.
-General Robert B. Landry served on the White House Staff of President Harry S. Truman.
-Dr. Adrian A. Landry, physician and sugar plantation owner. Born December 4, 1873, in Paincourtville, La.
-Tom Landry, head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 to 1988.
-Bernard Landry, lawyer and former Premier of Quebec, Canada.
-Ali Landry, Miss USA (1996).


comte Geoffroi VI de la Tour-Landry, author of The Book of the Knight of the Tower
Birth 1320 in Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
Death 1391 in France

20th great-grandfather LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

husband of 4th cousin 19x removed ROUGE-LEON-MONTMORENCY-TURPIN-ROCHE GUYON-DE SILLY-ROHAN-DUGAST-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/...

Fab Pedigree
http://fabpedigree.com/s084/f005115.htm

FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/per...

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffroy...


SOURCES

Family Tree Y-DNA Project: Landry
Related Family Tree Surnames of R1b-M269 (P312- U106-) DNA Haplogroup
Dynastie de Maillé la Tour-Landry
Landry Family Were Kin to Merovingians
https://rosamondpress.com/2013/09/19/...
The Landry Family Genealogy
Commune de La Tourlandry Wiki
Landry (surname) Wiki
WikiTree (Landry)
Origins of the Name "Landry"
Acadian-Cajun Genealogy: Landry
INTRODUCTION, BY THE LATE THOMAS WRIGHT
Chivalric Manuals: Written by Knights


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Le livre du chevalier de La Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses filles. Publi
The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry Compiled for the Instruction of His Daughters
The Book of the Order of Chivalry
The Booke of Thenseygnementes

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