Isaac de Porthau

Born in Béarn to Isaac de Porthau de Camptort de Campagne de Castetbon (Secretary of the Parliament of Béarn) and Clémence de Brosser, as the eldest of four children: Jean, Jeanne, and Sarah. Some sources say he was merely a guard while his brother Jean was the black musketeer, and may be in part responsible for the fictional representations of Porthau. He had two sons: Arnaud and Jean. Following his father's death in 1654, he resigned from the Guard and took over as Secretary of the Parliament of Béarn. ==Pedigree and arms==

According to an issue of ''Macmillan's Magazine'' from 1899: The Porthaus were an ancient family of Béarn, taking their name from one of the old porthaux or portes (small frontier towers resembling the peel-towers of the British Border) with which the French and Spanish Pyrénées were studded. These arms were granted to the Porthaus on November 24, 1674. It is unrecorded what, if anything, their arms were prior to this date. ==See also==