Antoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The first volume deals with Ajoie (table of contents, pp. 605-607). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. Two genealogical trees have been inserted, drawn on fold-out sheets (p. 111: Asuel family (French)/Hasenburg (German); 131: the Boncourt family), along with two black-ink drawings of castles (p. 301: the ruins of the Château de Roche d'Or and p. 501: Château de Châtel-Vouhay). This last plate is signed by the author of the manuscript, “A. Biétrix, archéologue”, who cites his source at the beginning of the book: Les monuments de l'histoire de l'ancien Evêché de Bâle by Joseph Trouillat (p. 25). (rou)

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Antoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The second volume concerns the valleys of the Doubs, of Laufon, and of Delémont (table of contents, pp. 453-456). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. Three watercolors on fold-out sheets depict the “Ruins of the Château de Montjoie, South-west” (p. 56), the “Ruins of the Château de Montjoie, South-east” (p. 71), and the “Ruins of the Château de la Roche”, (p. 77). (rou)

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Antoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The third volume concerns the valley of Orval de Tavannes, the Val de Moutier, the Seigneury of Erguel, Bienne, and the Basel nobility (table of contents, pp. 377-381). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. (rou)

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Antoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The fourth volume concerns the “lands outside the limits of the old bishopric of Basel” (table of contents, pp. 303-305). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. (rou)

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Antoine Biétrix (1817-1904) collected five volumes of material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel. The final volume is a copy of the tables of contents of the five volumes of Joseph Trouillat's Monuments de l'Histoire de l'ancien évêché de Bâle (1852-1861). Some texts have been interspersed between the various tables, including a list of historical notes on castles (p. 161), notes on coins (pp. 162-163), notes on destroyed castles (pp. 165-167), and a note on the seigneury of Sierentz (pp. 169-175). (rou)

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