Count of Champlitte

Francois de Vergy had been a page of honour to the Emperor, Charles V, and was Lt General and Governor of the County of Burgundy.

Claude-Francois de Cusance was a distinguished soldier and, as a colonel of the Empire he commanded 3,000 Burgundians in the service of the king of Spain.

The second daughter, Madeleine, married the Count Albert III van den Berg (1607-1656), whose descendants through the Hohenzollern dynasty include the emperor of Austria and kings of Bavaria, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

[citation needed] The Counts of Toulongeon were a distinguished noble house in Burgundy, with a long military tradition that continued with the revolutionary army, with three of them serving as Generals.

Some local histories report that Ermenfroy, the Baron of St-Julien and Seigneur of Cusance, had no children, but this is not correct.

The descendants of Ermenfroy, through Pierre de Cusance, left France for the New World and settled in Jamaica, originally a Spanish colony, subsequently taken by the British in 1655.

They were successful planters who over five generations built up substantial sugar works in St Thomas in the East.