Vallois Family

In The Gathering Dark, the House of Vallois is a Norman French aristocratic family whose nobility has existed since the 15th Century.

Origins
Before the family was ennobled and attached to a poperty by the name of "Vallois", the family name was simply "de Giverny" owing to the fact that the family was from the Commune of Giverny near Vernon, Normandy, The reasons for the family's ennoblement are shrouded in various legends, the most prominent of these being that Charles-Joseph de Giverny was awarded nobility for his services in the Hundred Years War. His ennoblement took place circa 1450, near the end of the war.