Old Chastain Family Tree

Found this in “A Brief History of the Huguenots and Three Family Trees”, 1933, by James Garvin Chastain, D.D., (pp. 260-261).

The Chastain Family Tree
[The] family records have been compiled from authentic sources, such as names and dates on tombstones and in family Bibles, church registers, war records and county records in the form of land deeds, wills, etc.
Mr. Ben J. Kincaid, of Miami, Florida, and Mrs. Mary L. Norton, of San Francisco, California, two expert genealogists, have both rendered the author valuable aid in collecting material for the Chastain Family Tree. The early part of this history Mr. Kincaid secured from the genealogical archives in Paris, France, and Mrs. Norton very kindly furnished an English translation of the same. They trace the Chastain pedigree back to the eleventh century.
CHASTAIN GENEALOGY.
The early spelling of the family name Chastain was Chastaignier, which meant a lord, a count or nobleman.
1. Chateigner, Seigneur de la Chateignier, lived in Francein about 1084 A. D.
2. Jean (John) Chateigner, Chevalier Sgr. de la Me.
3. Gilbert Chateigner, Chevalier (first of the name Gilbert), was living in 1246.
4. Gilbert Chateigner, Chevalier, Sgr. de la Melleraie et de Reaumur (second of the name Gilbert), died 1318, m. Jeanne Barrabin.
5. Jean Chateigner, Sgr. de la Melleraie, living in 1304.
6. Simon Chastain (Chateign), Sire de St. Georges et de Rexe, was living in 1322. He married Letice de la Guerche.
7. Jean Chastain, Chevalier, Sgr. de Reaumur, m. Isabeau Jousseraude.
8. Jean Chastain, Chevalier, m. the young Isabeau de Gourville, living in 1364.
9. Helie Chastain, Sire de St. Georges, died in 1396; m. Philippe de la Rochefatou.
10. Geoffroi Chastain, Chevalier, killed in the battle of Patai, Oct. 29, 1429, with four of his brothers. He m. Louise de Preuilly.
11. Pierre Chastain, Chevalier, m. Jeanne de Varere, their marriage contract being signed March 20, 1443.
12. Gui Chastain, Chevalier, Marechal de France, m. Madelene Du Pui (Dupoy), Jan. 4. 1502.
13. Jean Chastain, Chevalier, was in the siege of Pairre, 1522; m. Claude de Monleon.
14. Jean (or Janet or John) Chastain, Gentilhomme, d. at Poitier, Jan. 6, 1581; m. Jeanne de Villiers, 1564.
15. Francois Chastain, m. Louise de Foutlebou, 1605.
16. Rene Chastain, Page to Louis XIII., King of France from 1610 to 1643.
17. Rene Chastain, m. Marie Madeliene Helen de Dampiere. He was the father of Pierre (Peter) Chastain the emigrant.
18. Pierre Chastain (1660-1729), b. in the Province of Dauphiny, in southeastern France, m. Marie Madeline de la Rochefaucald, of Doffine (Dauphiny). His father and grandfather both were named Rene, which name comes from the Greek word eirene, meaningpeace. The corresponding feminine name is Irene.
During the religious persecution in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, some of the Chastains did not abandon the Catholic Church, and the descendants of these are still there, as was discovered by our kinsman, Mr. Benjamin J. Kincaid, while he served as an American soldier in France (1914-1918), during the World War.
"Mother Superior" Pbillippe Chastaigner, Abbess of a nunnery in Poitour, France, in 1549, entered into correspondence with John Calvin, then in Switzerland, with the purpose of abandoning the cloister and embracing the Evangelical faith. This she and eight of her nuns soon did, leaving only one in the convent.