Early Records from the Districts of Aubonne and Morges, Canton Vaud, Switzerland
Jean VALIER (ID #I8396)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: notary, councillor, etc.
- BIRTH: abt 1538, of Aubonne
[1399]
- DEATH: abt 1588
Father: Jaques VALIER (d. 1560)
Mother: Beatrice PIERRE (d. aft 1560)
Family 1
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Pernette COLLAT (d. aft 1583)
- +Benjamin VALIER (b. cir 1559, d. abt 1622)
- +Louis VALIER (b. bef 1566, d. bef 1612)
- +Pierre VALIER (b. bef 1573, d. aft 1636)
- +Marie VALIER (dates unknown)
- +Susanne VALIER (d. MAR 1603)
This would seem to be the same Jean Valier whose son Benjamin appears in various capacities in Aubonne as early as 1584 (Jean Barral, notary). He acquired property in his own name as early as 1564, and had thus apparently reached the age of 25 by that date. He was alive in 1574, when he is mentioned as a neighboring land owner in an otherwise undecipherable document of Claude Mayor, notary, 21 feb 1574. It was at his house in Aubonne that a "reconnaissance" for a vineyard of Noble Jean Goumoens of Lausanne was signed 15 jun 1581 (ACV Fh 158 fol. 74-77v). In 1591, he is referred to in the marriage record of his daughter Marie as the late Jean Valier, in his lifetime Châtelain of Aubonne. The Valier genealogy (Olivier Dessemontet, 1970, typescript at the Archives Cantonales Vaudoises) gives citations from the terriers of Aubonne in 1568, 1578, and 1588 (ACV Fh 153, 163, and 164). In the first, he is noted as "Discret Jehan Valier, bourgeois d'Aubonne, fils de proveable Jaques Valier, vivant ministre de la Parole de Dieu". In the others, he is identified as "Egrège", in other words, a notary.
While the surname is usually spelled Valier or Vallier in old records, and the context generally makes it clear we are dealing with the descendants of Jaques Valier, and not some branch of Vallier de Cressier from Neuchâtel, the surviving register of Urbain Campod, a notary working in the area of Lavigny 1573-1578, poses a problem. Lavigny is a sort of suburb of Aubonne, but do the references to descendants of "Jean Valliez" of Lavigny also pertain to Valier?
If "Jean Valliez" is, as we initially supposed, the same Jean Valier son of Jaques, the register of Urbain Campod reveals the following:
Jean "Valliez" was alive as late as 14 jan 1574, dead by 02 may 1574. His children included sons Pierre, André, Claude, and Nicolas, and daughter Bernarde, all of whom appear as adults in documents 1573-1575. So far, we see no mention of minor heirs or an administrator of the estate of "Jean Valliez". However, the children listed do not match any of the names in the corresponding generation in the records of Aubonne.
The terriers of Aubonne and other records agree that the children of Jean Valier of Aubonne were Louis, Benjamin, Pierre, Marie, and probably Susanne. There is no record of a testament or other proceedings that could be interpreted as a complete list of his heirs. It might be useful to examine the terriers for Lavigny, in hopes of understanding the origins of the "Valliez" family.
Even more suggestive of additional complications in the Valier genealogy is the discovery that the Châtelain de St. Prex during the years 1514-1520 (new style) was one Jacques Valier! In this office, he would probably not have been a priest. The Châtelain is mentioned several times in an account of the prosecution of Claude de Pitigny for the murder of the notary Pierre Pilantin; see E. Dupraz, "Condamnation à mort d'un gentilhomme vaudois au commencement du XVIe siècle", Revue historique vaudois, 24:289-309, 1916). At least in the terriers of Aubonne, there seems to be no mention of this person nor any indication that the minister Jaques Valier had inherited any property there from him.
Jean might have died late in 1588, because the terriers of Aubonne also refer to property acquired by Pierre Valier, his son, as the result of an exchange 30 dec 1588. The name of his wife is known only from a reconnaissance by his son Louis, 19 jan 1606 (ACV Fh 171 fol. 410). Jean was certainly alive about 1585 when the terrier Fh 34 was compiled— at that time, he owned a number of parcels of land at Gimel jointly with his "children", the sons Louis, Pierre, and Benjamin.
[1399]
He was "bourgeois d'Aubonne" in 1560 at the time of his father's death, thus surely at least age 25 by that date.
He was "bourgeois d'Aubonne" in 1560 at the time of his father's death, thus surely at least age 25 by that date.
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_Jaques VALIER ______|
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|--Jean VALIER
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|_Beatrice PIERRE ____|
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Jean VALIER (ID #I11551)
(male)
- BAPTISM: 17 NOV 1681, St. Prex, Vaud, Switzerland
- DEATH: bef 1733
Father: Pierre VALIER (bp. 20 MAR 1645, d. DEC 1712)
Mother: Jeanne Catherine WARNERY (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Susanne OLIVE (b. abt 1688, d. AUG 1749)
- MARRIAGE: 11 DEC 1706, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
[2986]
- Jeanne Susanne VALIER (bp. 31 DEC 1711)
- Susanne Catherine VALIER (dates unknown)
He was apprenticed to Isaac Lect, marchand drapier of Geneva, in 1696:
[AEG Notaire Louis Pasteur (2me), vol. 6, fol. 165-165v.]
Du dixsept Julliet 1696 avant midy.
[Margin : Apprentissage pour Noble Isaac Lect contre Spectable Pierre Valier. Levé pour les parties.]
Estably Spectable Pierre Vallier Ministre à Estois en Suissse lequel de son bon gré baille et assujetti pour apprentif Sieur Jean Vallier son fils icy present et l'agréant avec Noble Isaac Lect marchand drapier citoyen de cette ville icy present et acceptant, et c'est pour le terme de trois ans entiers et continuels, commenceants demain, pendant lequel temps ledit Sieur Lect promet d'instruire ledit apprentif en la crainte de Dieu et bonne[s] moeurs, le loger, coucher, nourrir et reblanchir, et luy enseigner et apprendre la negoce de draperie et tout ce qui en despend et dont il se mesle sans luy en rien cacher entant toutesfois que ledit apprentif le pourra comprendre, pour et moyenant la somme de quatre cents livres tournois monnoye courante en cette ville pour ledit apprentissage payables comme promet ledit Spectable Vallier sçavoir deux cents livres dans un an prochain, et les deux cents livres restantes dans deux ans prochains et d'entretenir sondit fils pendant ledit apprentissage de toutes choses necessaires et demeure respondant de sa fidellité et qu'il n'absentera la service dudit Sieur Lect pendant lesdits trois ans sans congé ou legitime cause, promettants les parties par serment d'avoir agré[é] le present acte, à peyne de tous despens, aux obligations de leurs biens etc. submissions etc. constitutions etc. renonciations etc. faict audit Geneve dans la bouticque dudit Sieur Lect presents honnorable Isaac Durand maistre tailleur habitant et Sieur Jean Lombard marchand de cette ville tesmoins requis.
[Signatures :] Pierre Vallier, Isaac Lect, Jean Vallier, Jean Lombard, Isaac Durand, L Pasteur (paraphe).
[2986]
Date of contract, recorded by Noble Philippe de Montricher, notary at Lausanne (ACV DG 182/3). The document includes th
Date of contract, recorded by Noble Philippe de Montricher, notary at Lausanne (ACV DG 182/3). The document includes the signatures of several members of both families.
_Pierre VALIER ______+
| (1573 - 1636) m 1603
_Pierre VALIER _____________|
| (1607 - 1656) m 1630 |
| |_Louise JAILLET _____+
| (1575 - 1645) m 1603
_Pierre VALIER ____________|
| (.... - 1712) m 1677 |
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| |_Françoise TRIPOD __________|
| (1609 - 1671) m 1630 |
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|--Jean VALIER
| (.... - 1733)
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| _Jean WARNERY ______________|
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|_Jeanne Catherine WARNERY _|
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|_Marie Claudine DE CRAUSAZ _|
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Jeanne VALIER (ID #I8402)
(female)
- BIRTH: bef 1595
- DEATH: aft 1644
[1406]
Father: Louis VALIER (b. bef 1566, d. bef 1612)
Mother: Françoise REBUT (d. aft 1624)
Family 1
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Claude D'AMARON (d. bef 1620)
- MARRIAGE: 12 JUL 1612, Vufflens-le-Chateau, Vaud, SWZ
[2957]
- Anne AMARON (dates unknown)
Family 2
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Louis DOMENJOZ (d. bef 1639)
- MARRIAGE: 10 SEP 1620, Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
- Jean François DOMENJOZ (bp. 20 OCT 1622)
- Jean DOMENJOZ (bp. 22 NOV 1627)
- Louis DOMENJOZ (bp. 10 FEB 1628)
- Antoine DOMENJOZ (bp. 10 APR 1631)
- Noé DOMENJOZ (bp. 7 APR 1633)
[1406]
She appears as godmother at a baptism in Pully, 26 apr 1644.
She appears as godmother at a baptism in Pully, 26 apr 1644.
[2957]
Date of contract, Claude Mayor, notary, gives date 17 apr 1615. Church record is clear. Contract mentions her mother,
Date of contract, Claude Mayor, notary, gives date 17 apr 1615. Church record is clear. Contract mentions her mother, Françoise "Robert."
_Jaques VALIER ______
| (.... - 1560) m 1536
_Jean VALIER ________|
| (1538 - 1588) |
| |_Beatrice PIERRE ____
| (.... - 1560) m 1536
_Louis VALIER _______|
| (1566 - 1612) |
| | _Michel COLLAT ______
| | | (1517 - 1566) m 1543
| |_Pernette COLLAT ____|
| (.... - 1583) |
| |_Marie FILLIETTAZ ___+
| (1525 - 1578) m 1543
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|--Jeanne VALIER
| (1595 - 1644)
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| _Jaques REBUT _______|
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|_Françoise REBUT ____|
(.... - 1624) |
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Jeanne VALIER (ID #I2607)
(female)
Father: Pierre VALIER (b. bef 1573, d. aft 1636)
Mother: Louise JAILLET (b. bef 1575, d. aft 1645)
Family 1
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Benjamin FAVRE (b. bef 1600)
- +Susanne FAVRE (bp. 29 SEP 1626)
- +Benjamin FAVRE (bp. 12 JUN 1631)
- Marguerite FAVRE (bp. 26 MAY 1633)
- +Pernette FAVRE (b. bef 1635)
- Jaques Aimé FAVRE (bp. 21 AUG 1636)
First mention is with her husband at the baptism of their first known child Susanne, at St. Livres 29 sep 1626. Her parentage has not been proved. However, there appear to be only three possible fathers: Benjamin, Pierre, and Louis, sons of Jean Valier son of the minister Jaques Valier. Benjamin's estate went to his son Imbert and his daughter Antheine, wife of Benjamin Bégoz; there do not seem to have been any other children who survived. Louis left several sons and a daughter Jeanne who married first Claude d'Amaron and second Louis Domenjoz. Unless Louis had two daughters named Jeanne, he, too, can be ruled out as the father of the present Jeanne. That leaves Pierre Valier as the likely father of Jeanne Valier. The connection is perhaps even more likely because Pierre was Châtelain de Gimel, and Benjamin Favre's family had extensive property and prestige at Gimel.
Nothing significant has yet surfaced regarding the estate of Pierre Valier. It seems very likely, however, he would have given his daughters property as part of their dowries, so it is possible that something will be found in the terriers. For the moment, as there do not seem to be any other possibilities, and we show Jeanne as the daughter of Pierre Valier.
Olivier Dessemontet's genealogy of the Valier family (typescript at the ACV, 1970) seems to have checked the available terriers for Aubonne for reconnaissances listed under the name Valier, so if there is anything relating to the parentage of our Jeanne Valier, it will likely be found in reconnaissances listed under her husband's name, or those of their children and their spouses.
_Jaques VALIER ______
| (.... - 1560) m 1536
_Jean VALIER ________|
| (1538 - 1588) |
| |_Beatrice PIERRE ____
| (.... - 1560) m 1536
_Pierre VALIER ______|
| (1573 - 1636) m 1603|
| | _Michel COLLAT ______
| | | (1517 - 1566) m 1543
| |_Pernette COLLAT ____|
| (.... - 1583) |
| |_Marie FILLIETTAZ ___+
| (1525 - 1578) m 1543
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|--Jeanne VALIER
| (1610 - ....)
| _Gabriel JAILLET ____+
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| _Estienne JAILLET ___|
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|_Louise JAILLET _____|
(1575 - 1645) m 1603|
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|_Jeanne _____ _______|
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Louis VALIER (ID #I11614)
(male)
- BIRTH: bef 1566
- DEATH: bef 1612
Father: Jean VALIER (b. abt 1538, d. abt 1588)
Mother: Pernette COLLAT (d. aft 1583)
Family 1
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Françoise REBUT (d. aft 1624)
- +Jeanne VALIER (b. bef 1595, d. aft 1644)
- +Judith VALIER (dates unknown)
- +Gamaliel VALIER (b. aft 1598, d. bef 1660)
- +Jaques VALIER (b. aft 1598)
- +Antoine VALIER (b. aft 1598, d. aft 1632)
- Jean Jaques VALIER (b. aft 1598)
- +Nicolas VALIER (b. aft 1598, d. bef 1638)
He was still alive in 1604 (he is on the list of members of the local society of "Arquebouziers" for that year, Archives communales d'Aubonne, PA 5.5), but deceased by 1612.
Birthdate estimated from mention in 1591 as (adult?) neighbor of Benjamin Valier in documents of Claude Mayor, notary, and identified as Benjamin's brother in a document of 1598. His wife was apparently Françoise Rebut, but there is at least one record (1615) that calls her Françoise Robert. An accident of the old script could easily cause this transformation, but there was a Robert family (alias Gadel) at nearby Féchy.
Further, the known children include five sons who were all minors in 1612 and 1623 (thus, the youngest of these presumably born no earlier than about 1606), plus a daughter Jeanne who was married in 1612, and a daughter Judith. It is possible these are all children of the same mother, but no document has surfaced that either states or implies this. Even more suggestive is the existence of an act of apprenticeship in Geneva (1594) for Pierre, son of Louis Valier of Aubonne. Pierre had probably reached the age of about 14 by that time. Thus, we seem to have evidence of children born over a period of at least 27 years, and if they were all children of the same mother, then we must be missing several more.
However, since he already had a daughter Jeanne who married first Claude d'Amaron and then Louis Demenjoz, he is apparently not the father of the Jeanne Valier who married Benjamin Favre.
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_Jaques VALIER ______|
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_Jean VALIER ________|
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| |_Beatrice PIERRE ____|
| (.... - 1560) m 1536|
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|--Louis VALIER
| (1566 - 1612)
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| _Michel COLLAT ______|
| | (1517 - 1566) m 1543|
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|_Pernette COLLAT ____|
(.... - 1583) |
| _Stephanus (Estienne) FILLIETTAZ _+
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|_Marie FILLIETTAZ ___|
(1525 - 1578) m 1543|
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