Saintignon
The Saintignon family is a surviving family of the French nobility, a Lotharingian noble family from Verdun, who rose to prominence and solidified their place in the royal courts under the Ancien Régime.
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An extinct branch was titled Baron of the Holy Empire in 1746. He owned a regiment in his name in the Austrian army, the Saintignon-dragons, from 1759 to 1779.
During the Industrial Revolution, the family of Saintignon invested in steel factories in Lorraine (under the name De Saintignon and Co.).