Jaques FAVRE (ID #I13625)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: maréchal
- BIRTH: of Gimel
- DEATH: aft 1564
Father: Pierre DEGENÈVE (d. bef 1542)
Mother: Pernette VACHERAND (dates unknown)
Family 1
:
- +Estienne FAVRE (b. bef 1540, d. 1600)
- +François FAVRE (dates unknown)
- +Légier FAVRE (dates unknown)
- Claude FAVRE (dates unknown)
The terrier prepared by Estienne Favre in 1583 (ACV Fh 38, especially fol. 44v-50v) for the Noble de Martine family identifies Jaques Favre, father of Estienne, as a maréchal of Gimel who purchased property there in the years 1543-1550. There is no mention of his origins, his wife, or other relatives. A number of people in this community are revealed in the same terrier to have come from Faucigny or the Tarentaise. A related terrier (ACV Fh 34), although it runs to 552 pages, seems to contain no dates whatever, but it gives additional details on Jaques Favre and his sons.
However, the terrier Fh 18 (fol. 6v, dated 15 dec 1552, itself an annotated copy of Fh 17, fol. 3v), a volume of "reconnaissances" relating to holdings of the noble de la Porte family at Gimel circa 1550, with later annotations, shows that Jaques Favre was in fact the son of Pierre de Genève of Gimel. The document describes the holdings of "Jaques filz de Pierre de Genève aultrement Favre de Gimel". In the margin at the top of the document is a later notation similar to those on other reconnaissances in this volume, describing the later history of the property. In this case, the notation is conclusive: "Ledit Jaques Favre est decedé et a laissé Discret Estienne et Legier Favre, ledict Legier a vendu sa portion audict Estienne Favre lequel est decedé et a laissé Discret David Michel et Bernard ses enfans ... par indivis". This inscription makes explicit what we had already guessed from Fh 34 and Fh 38, that Légier Favre must have sold his share of his father's estate to his brothers Estienne and François. Reading between the lines here, François must not have left descendants.
The only surviving pages of the terrier Fg 273 are the répertoire, and even that is probably incomplete. The fragment is believed to date from about 1540-1542 (perhaps on the basis of dated citations of it in later terriers?). The commissaire appears to have been Egrège Jehan Poupuz of Rolle. In spite of its present condition, the répertoire is a useful inventory of the landowners circa 1540. Among others, the list includes at Gimel "Jaques filz de feu Pierre de Genefve alias Billiard mareschal".
Other records note that Pierre Vacherand, grandfather of Jaques de Genève alias Favre, was himself a maréchal. Jaques must have learned his trade from his grandfather.
Jaques was presumably still alive in 1564, according to an "abergement" of that year, a lease of property to "Jaques Geneve dit Favre", at Gimel (ACV IB, layette 297B, 9711er — this document has not yet been examined, and some dates from the "Inventaire Blanc" have been found to be incorrect when compared with the documents themselves). The same series (IB, layette 297B, 973) contains a similar document, whereby the same Pierre Quisard purchased proper "es Closes" from François Billiard in 1565. As a result of a revision of the cataloguing of the Inventaire Blanc, these two documents are now identified as ACV IB B 971/1 and 973; neither one has been examined.
_Vulliermus REYMOND ___________+
| (1410 - ....) m 1430
_Louis DEGENÈVE _____|
| (1430 - 1501) m 1468|
| |_Beatrix MOREL ________________+
| (1415 - ....) m 1430
_Pierre DEGENÈVE ____|
| (.... - 1542) |
| | _Pierre BILLIARD ______________+
| | | (1419 - 1468) m 1444
| |_Anthoenne BILLIARD _|
| (1430 - ....) m 1468|
| |_Mermeta GACHET _______________+
| (1403 - ....) m 1444
|
|--Jaques FAVRE
| (.... - 1564)
| _______________________________
| |
| _Pierre VACHERAND ___|
| | |
| | |_______________________________
| |
|_Pernette VACHERAND _|
|
| _Nicolas (Nicollet) DUBUGNION _+
| |
|_Jenette DUBUGNION __|
|
|_______________________________
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