Cossé History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Cossé family

The surname Cossé was first found in Anjou, a former county, duchy and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France. Thee family took its name from Cossé, a village in the department of Mayenne, near Laval.

Early History of the Cossé family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cossé research. Another 151 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1422, 1505, 1506, 1512, 1550, 1552, 1563, 1582, 1600, 1610, 1611, 1615, 1621, 1671, 1673, 1674, 1830, 1833, 1856, 1892 and 1903 are included under the topic Early Cossé History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Cossé Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cossé, de Cossé, Cosset, de Cosset, Cossette and many more.

Early Notables of the Cossé family

Jan Cossiers (1600-1671), a Flemish Baroque painter; Charles de Cossé (1506-1563), marshal of Brissac; Charles II de Cossé (1550-1621), the first Duke of Brissac from 1611 until his death; Philippe de...

Cossé Ranking

In France, the name Cossé is the 4,279^th most popular surname with an estimated 1,500 - 2,000 people with that name. 1

Cossé migration to the United States +

Cossé Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

William Cosse, who landed in Virginia in 1706 2

Cossé migration to Canada +

Cossé Settlers in Canada in the 17th Century

Pierre Cosse, who settled in Quebec in 1638

Contemporary Notables of the name Cossé (post 1700) +

Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, Duke of Brissac, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3
Emmanuelle Cosse (b. 1974), French activist with LGBT and feminist groups, journalist and magazine editor, and politician
Laurence Cossé (b. 1950), French novelist and short story writer
Pierre-Yves Cossé, French inspector- general of finances, Paris

Sources +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Louis Cossé. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html