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8 eras · 1000–2026 · 1 places

Hautes-Alpes - the Briançonnais, Embrunais and Gapençais

Gap, Briançon, Embrun, Queyras, La Grave. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1000–1349 Dauphiné of Viennois; Briançon chartered 1244, Escartons grand charter 1343 no registers survive

Before registers. Guigues VII granted Briançon a charter of liberty in 1244, and on 29 May 1343 Humbert II confirmed a grand charter with 18 representatives of the Alpine valleys.
1349–1713 Kingdom of France - Dauphiné, the five Escartons of the Briançonnais Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · Archives municipales de Briançon · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The Dauphiné passed to the French crown in 1349. The Briançonnais valleys (Briançonnais, Oulx, Casteldelfino, Val Chisone and Queyras) kept their charter privileges.
1713–1790 Kingdom of France - Briançon and Queyras after the Treaty of Utrecht Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · Archives municipales de Briançon · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 gave most of the Briançonnais valleys to Savoy; some accounts say Oulx, Val Chisone and Casteldelfino were separated and Briançon and Queyras stayed French. The privileges ended on 4 August 1789.
1790–1815 France - department of Hautes-Alpes Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The department was one of the original 83 created on 4 March 1790, from the south-east of Dauphiné and the north of Provence. Lay civil registers date from the decree of 20 September 1792.
1815–1818 France under Austrian and Piedmontese occupation Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Austrian and Piedmontese troops occupied the department from 1815 to 1818.
1818–1942 France - department of Hautes-Alpes Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · Archives municipales de Briançon · FamilySearch · Geneanet
1942–1943 Italian occupation (November 1942 - September 1943) Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Italy occupied the department from November 1942 to September 1943.
1943–2026 France - department of Hautes-Alpes Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

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The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

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118 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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