Laurent
For Saint Laurence, whose name the great river carries.
- Origin
- French
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- French family
The seat of Laurent
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Laurent community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Laurent has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Laurent clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Laurent clan →What does the Laurent name mean?
From the given name Laurent, Latin Laurentius, borne on the cult of Saint Laurence, the deacon martyred on a gridiron in Rome for refusing to surrender the Church's treasure.
The history of Laurent
Saint Laurence was one of the most venerated martyrs of medieval Europe, and his name Laurent spread widely through France as given name and then surname. For the French diaspora it carries an extra charge: it was on his feast day in 1535 that Jacques Cartier entered the gulf he named for the saint, the Saint Lawrence, the river road into the heart of New France down which almost every French settler of Canada would come.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
BastilleDemolished · prime 1380
Guédelon CastleRestored · prime 1250
Château de VincennesRestored · prime 1660All castles in France → · Strongest castles in France → · Castles of Europe
Play As Your Clan
Hold a real castle against whatever you choose to send at it, take a ship out in her own service years, or stand at the shoulder of someone the record remembers. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.