Salomon Blosset de Loche
Brigadier-General Salomon de Blosset, Seigneur de Loche was a Huguenot army officer.
Early life
Born in the Dauphiné to Paul de Blosset, Seigneur des Eissarts, from a family of Huguenots who had left their original home of the Nivernais during the French Wars of Religion.Career
After the Revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 Loche at first fought in support of the Vaudois and at some point came into the service of William of Orange along with many other Huguenot officers. He was recorded as leading a regiment of 800 for the Duke of Savoy on 17 July 1692 and fought at the Battle of Marsaglia in Piedmont on 4 October 1693. He also fought at Brandenburg and in Flanders. As William of Orange became King William III of England, he was granted land in Ireland and settled in Dublin where he is recorded as receiving 6 shillings per day in pension.Personal life
He married firstly Catherine Oddos de Bonniot in France and a further time to a sister or sister in law of Captain Theophile de la Cour Des Brisay. He had four children by his first marriage:- Colonel Paul de Blosset of Blosset's Regiment of Foot or Blosset's Foot, whose son Solomon Stephen Blosset was ancestor of George Grote and Henrietta, the wife of Henry Jerome de Salis.
- Major Anthony de Blosset
- Captain Salomon or Solomon de Blosset or Blossett married Jeanne daughter of Hector Francois Chataigner de Cramahé from whom descended Colonel John Blossett, and generations of actors beginning with Ethel Lavenu, her son Tyrone Power, Sr. and grandson Tyrone Power.
- Marie de Blosset m. Jacques Teissonière de la Rouvière, Captain of Foot.