He was a descendant of the noble family of Forcade from Béarn in the Kingdom of Navarre, a Protestant nobleman, but abjured from Protestantism[3] shortly before the end of his life, under intimidation from the policy of harassment of religious minorities through the use of dragonnades, created in 1681, to intimidate Huguenots into converting to Catholicism or to leave France, and under the threat of confiscation of properties of nobles who did not convert.
The earliest known mention of Jean de Forcade is in relation to the provision of an office as Huissier at the Parliament of Navarre on 5 March 1644.
[5] Records for wages and other payments by the Chambre des Comptes show that Jean de Laforcade was still a Huissier at the Parliament of Navarre in 1657,[6][7][8] when he received a reimbursement for the costs of his robe and bonnet for having assisted at the execution of a person condemned to death.
Verdoyé was also to ensure the interim succession of Richard Lamy at the mint in Pau until the arrival of Jean de Forcade.
He was subsequently received into the Order of Nobility of the Estates of Béarn as Seigneur de Biaix[1] on 10 June 1659.
[10][1] The Chambre des Comptes de Pau renewed the license for the Coin Mint of Navarre and Béarn, for a fee of 11,100 livres on 11 July 1659.
The management of the mints in Pau and Morlaàs was entrusted to Robert Fisson, acting in the quality of a subcontractor or shareholder proxy.
Nevertheless, for political reasons, the Chambre des Comptes de Pau was not predisposed to grant the partners a termination of their lease since it would result in a loss of resources for the province.
Considering these circumstances, the partners decided to address themselves to the King's Counsel to obtain the termination of their lease and financial relief.
As a result, a total of about forty persons served on the Consistory of Pau during its existence[11] from 1 January 1668 until 31 July 1681.
The etymology of the word Biaix[16] has its roots in the Catalan language and means oblique or biais, in the sense of not expressed or done in a direct way or deviates from the expected according to the laws of probability or physics.
After various viscitudes of fortune, the second smaller house on the outskirts of Pau, referred to as Biaix du faubourg, in the suburb of la Fontaine, acquired with the main fief on 28 February 1659,[1] was acquired from family de Casaus on 10 May 1710 by Noé Dufau, merchant furbisher, who was received in the Order of Nobility of the States of Béarn on 28 April 1717 as Seigneur de Biaix du faubourg.