De Nicolay family

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de Nicolay
Current region	France and former colonies, United Kingdom and former colonies, Germany, Russia, United States, Australia, India, Canada and South Africa.
Place of origin	France

The de Nicolay family (de Nicolaÿ/Nicolaï) – refer to Nobility particle) is an old European noble family of the Ancien Régime with its roots in Southern France at the early part of the 14th Century. There is however, evidence to suggest that its origins stretch further back to the growth of the city state of Florence at the beginning of the Florentine Renaissance.^[1] The Nicolay family was originally associated with the French noble classes of the Nobles of the Robe and the Nobles of the Sword. It is well documented that members of the House of Nicolay became highly influential in the spheres of national government, law, the church, academia, military and diplomatic service, as well as the arts. They held the titles of marquis, count and baron.