The Mallet-Prevost Family Crest

This family has added to its name of Mallet that of Prevost, on account of the marriage—at the time of the Revolution—of Henry Mallet with Jane G. Prevost. It is a generally-adopted custom, in Switzerland, to thus add the surname of the wife to that of the husband. The Mallets de Graville, a Norman family of great antiquity, represented to the present day amongst the landed gentry of Great Britain, had for chief of one of its branches, in 1530, Jacqttes Mallet, of Rouen, who had to leave hurriedly his fatherland on account of his religious convictions. He settled in Geneva, then ruled by Calvin. His descendant, General Paul Henry Mallet-Prevost [issued from the marriage of Henry Mallet and Jane G. Prevost], who had taken service with the last French Bourbon kings (before 1792), fled for his life, and took refuge in Frenchtown, N. J. His eldest son, General Andrew Mallet-Prevost, settled in Philadelphia. The uncle of the emigrant was created Count de Mallet, for his high literary attain

Family

Mallet-Prevost

Motto

Force d'en haul.Strength from on high.

Blazon

A Demi-Chamois: Proper.

Source

America Hereldica