THE EASLEY FAMILY PAGE
THE GENEALOGY OF ROBERT (ROBIN) EASLEY, THE FRENCH HUGUENOT IMMIGRANT AND ANN PARKER
THROUGH GEORGE WOODSON EASLEY AND DELLA JEANETTE WHITTON AND THEIR FAMILY
HISTORY OF EASLEYS IN FRANCE
Robert Easley's Birth Village From Space
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Robert Easley's Birth Village
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Note: What a beautiful little village. It looks much the same as it did when Robert Easley and his family lived there. The clock tower has been in place since 1500 A.D. Monsieur de Sabran and ancestors have lived there and occupied the castle home at the top of the hill since c1200.
Note: An Easley (or d'Escalis) was knighted by a French sovereign therefore creating the Noble House d'Escalis. Perhaps this knighting was during the crusades.
Notes on the village:
The Chateau d'Ansouis was built as a hilltop fortification sometime before the year 961. It has evolved over the centuries to its current form of a fabulous estate-house, but retains some of the fortified walls and watchtowers of the earlier versions, and is classified as a national site et monument historique.
Ansouis is rated one of the loveliest villages of France. The Plus Beaux Villages de France Association rates 141 villages with this honor. The initial requirements are: population under 2000, having at least two "protected" sites, and the municipality requesting they be considered.
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First record, 961 Ansoyse
Prehistoric: Vestiges include pottery, signs of a lithic (stoneware) industry and millstones.
Medieval: Ansoui belonged to the counts of Forcalquier until the 13th century, when it was acquired by the Sabran, a powerful Provencal family, who still own the chateau.
