Johnny Hallyday and Jean d’ormesson share a common ancestor from the nobility of the Fifteenth century – Gala

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Johnny Hallyday and Jean d’ormesson are cousins ! The idol of the youth and the man of letters, who died almost the same day last week, share a common ancestor : a couple formed by the noble lord John of The Malaize, and his wife Mary Smaele of Broesberghe.

Johnny Hallyday and Jean d’ormesson are cousins ! The writer and the legendary singer, who died a day apart last week – the first on Tuesday the 5th and the second on Wednesday 6 December -share a relationship that dates back to the Fifteenth century, according to the website of genealogy Geneanet. It is located in Namur, it is the couple formed by a noble lord, John of The Malaize, and his wife Mary Smaele of Broesberghe. “This couple from the Middle Ages had three children, of whom two daughters, Mary and Catherine. However, the branch ‘Smet’ down of Mary and the branch ‘Ormesson’ of Catherine, giving 13 generations later, the rocker and the man of letters “, due simply to the Parisian.

The side of Jean d’ormesson, the wives have made great alliances with barons, princes, until the great-grandmother of the writer, who married the marquis d’ormesson. In Johnny Hallyday – Jean-Philippe Smet to his real name – to the social level of his ancestors began to decline from the 3rd generation after Mary Smaele of Broesberghe. At the beginning of the Twentieth century, the nobility is altogether forgotten, workers, taverniers, are among the ancestors of the rocker. His grandfather, Antoine, was a farrier. The son of this last was Leon Smet, a artist became a wanderer, an alcoholic, and the father of Johnny Hallyday.

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