In the eighth century, Ch\u00e2teau La Roque was at one of the crossroads of traffic routes between the Camargue and the C\u00e9vennes. The Benedictine monks tell us (see the cartulary of Maguelonne) of the importance of building a fortification in order to control the intersection of these roads. The ch\u00e2teau then belonged to the family of Bermont d\u2019Anduze, who were dispossessed of it in 1229 by the French crown at the end of the war against the Cathars.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″]<\/figure>[vc_column_text]Coats of arms of the La Roques of the house of Couloubrines.<\/em><\/p>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In 1259, two noblemen, the brothers Jean and Guilhaume de la Roque, became owners of the land and grew vines on the slopes of the hill which sheltered le Nanse (a farm).<\/p>\n
In 1426, Firmin de La Roque acquired a glass works on the Couloubrine site, in the name of his family. He then brought a new dimension to the vine growing tradition: \u201cthe marriage between glass and wine\u201d. This new dynasty of the \u201cde La Roques of Couloubrine\u201d ruled over the estate until the end of the 17th century.<\/p>\n
A line of wine-growers have continued, until nowadays, to cultivate on this terroir those beautiful ripe fruits which give the wines of Ch\u00e2teau La Roque their unique character.<\/p>\n
The blazon (coat of arms) and the \u201cLa Roque\u201d gentlemen glassmakers\u2019 motto are \u201cazure with rocks argent placed fesswise and \u201cAdversis duro”.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″]<\/figure>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
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Coat of arms of La Roque, gentlemen glassmakers of the Languedoc \u201cAzur with two rocks argent face to face\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n
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[\/vc_column_text]<\/figure>[vc_column_text]The identity of Ch\u00e2teau La Roque, a tribute to the history of our ancestors[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Louis de La Roque, highly qualified to speak about all this as he was a member of the La Roque family of gentlemen glassmakers and was the author of the Armorial de la noblesse de Languedoc \u2013 G\u00e9n\u00e9ralit\u00e9 de Montpellier published in Montpellier in 1860, carefully noted in the \u201cLa Roque\u201d article, that the arms of his family were azure with rocks argent placed fesswise. \nThe noble family of La Roque (nobility of feudal extraction) seems to have been known from the 11th century onwards thanks to Hugues de la Roque who around 1090 married Guillemette, the daughter of the Vicomte de N\u00eemes and d\u2019Alby and widow of the Vicomte de B\u00e9ziers. \nThen, in the 15th century, the La Roque family divided into three branches which spread into the Languedoc, the Auvergne and the Vivarais regions.<\/p>\n
– The Couloubrines branch<\/strong> (whose origins are known from the 15th century onwards and which died out in the 19th century).[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]– The Mazel branch<\/strong> and later that of Montel (disappeared since the 19th century). \n– The Vivarais branch<\/strong> (founded by Pierre de La Roque, in the 17th century), is the only one which currently exists.<\/p>\n
Their noble status was maintained by M. de Bezons, Intendant of Languedoc, during the verification of evidence of nobility in 1668, 1669 and 1670.<\/p>\n
The arms are surmounted with a Marquis\u2019s crown. The origin of this crown seems to go back to the middle of the 18th century. According to \u201cthe Code of French Nobility\u201d, the raising of a marquisate required three baronies with their castellanies united, granted by the king in return for a single act of homage.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The La Roque family have a single heraldic motto and several coats of arms. The motto \u201cAdversis Duro\u201d means \u201cI face up to adversity\u201d and relates to the arms referred to as \u201ctalking\u201d (i.e. phonetic) which are the two rocks. According to the Catalogue des gentilshommes du Languedoc , repeated in L. de Roque\u2019s Armorial du Languedoc, this first coat of arms is described in the following way: Azure (blue) with two rocks argent (white) placed fesswise. It also added: alias azure with a heart and two pine cones of the same (colour) attached to the heart by two cords gules (red). The last description is the one by Saint-Quirin and is certainly earlier than the first. The two rocks were borne by the La Roques of the Languedoc (branches died out).<\/p>\n
Another coat of arms has existed since a certain Pierre de La Roque (17th century) who moved to the Auvergne and then to Vivarais and who wanted to distinguish himself from the other branches: Or (yellow) with in its centre a heart gules (red), to which two pine cones vert are attached at the ends of two cords of the same colour, with a chief (top part of the escutcheon) charged with 3 honey bees sable (black bees) sewn with silver thread. The following was also added: alias azure with two rocks placed fesswise.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/figure>[vc_column_text]The identity of Ch\u00e2teau La Roque, a tribute to the history of our ancestors[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Louis de La Roque, highly qualified to speak about all this as he was a member of the La Roque family of gentlemen glassmakers and was the author of the Armorial de la noblesse de Languedoc \u2013 G\u00e9n\u00e9ralit\u00e9 de Montpellier published in Montpellier in 1860, carefully noted in the \u201cLa Roque\u201d article, that the arms of his family were azure with rocks argent placed fesswise.