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HOZIER, Pierre d' (1592-1660, genealogist, conseiller d'Etat ). Tables of Consanguinity between Queen Marie de Médicis of France and her husband Henri IV; the Queen and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, and King Philip IV of Spain; and between the Queen and her son-in-law Charles I, King of England. In French. Paris: not before 1625, not after 1631]. 365 x 255mm. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, perhaps autograph. 6 leaves (1.6 blank, 2 dedication to the Queen in a fine cursive, calligraphic hand and signed by the author, 3-5 three tables of consanguinity with 45 crowned coats-of-arms illuminated in gold, silver and other heraldic tinctures. ORIGINAL GOLD-TOOLED RED MOROCCO, triple fillet panels on sides, arms of the Queen as widow in the centre (Olivier 2504), a floral tool at the corners, marbled pastedowns. Provenance : Marie de Médicis 1573-1642 (dedicatee, binding); I.B. Barbe, "Conch. en la cour des Audes" (woodcut armorial bookplate). IMPORTANT, ORIGINAL GENEALOGICAL AND ARMORIAL MANUSCRIPT, COMMISSIONED BY KING LOUIS XIII OF FRANCE before he exiled his ambitious mother from the Court in 1631, but after his sister's marriage to Charles I in 1625 (the last entry in the third table). The 1620s was a period of tense reconciliation between Marie de Médicis and her son, but her impatience and hatred of Cardinal Richelieu resulted in the journée des dupes and her sad final years in the Low Countries, England and Cologne. D'Hozier, seigneur de La Garde, was France's most celebrated genealogist under Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Writing of him, Voltaire remarked that greater men received lesser awardsm but then their efforts were less useful to human vanity. He was the compiler sof numerous published works, as well as of Généalogie des Principales Familles de France , 150 manuscript folio-format volumes preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale. IN VERY FINE CONDITION.