_____________________
|
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609|
| |_____________________
|
_Abraham GACHET _____|
| (.... - 1667) m 1647|
| | _Abraham DE TREY ____+
| | | (1549 - 1596) m 1591
| |_Anne DE TREY _______|
| m 1609 |
| |_Anne JOCCET ________+
| (.... - 1601) m 1591
|
|--Magdelaine Marguerite GACHET
|
| _André FIVAZ ________
| | (.... - 1598)
| _Pierre FIVAZ _______|
| | m 1602 |
| | |_Antheine CHUARD ____+
| | (1550 - 1591)
|_Elizabeth FIVAZ ____|
m 1647 |
| _Daniel RIBAUD ______
| |
|_Esther RIBAUD ______|
m 1602 |
|_____________________
_Nicoletus GACHET ___+
| (1371 - 1416)
_Roletus GACHET _____|
| (1391 - 1447) |
| |_Marguereta _____ ___
|
_Bartholomeus GACHET _|
| (1434 - 1503) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Katherina _____ ____|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Margareta GACHET
| (.... - 1526)
| _____________________
| |
| _Johannes ANCELLES __|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Margareta ANCELLES __|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
_Jean GACHET ________
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1680) m 1640|
| |_Anne DE TREY _______+
| m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1722) m 1682|
| | _Abraham DESSIBORD __
| | |
| |_Jeanne DESSIBORD ___|
| m 1640 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| _Pierre COMTE _______+
| | m 1614
| _Samuel COMTE _______|
| | m 1652 |
| | |_Susanne RUÉRAT _____+
| | m 1614
|_Anne Marie COMTE ___|
(.... - 1729) m 1682|
| _____________________
| |
|_Magdelaine JACCAUD _|
m 1652 |
|_____________________
[14729] Date of contract, Salomon de Trey, notary.
_Pierre GACHET ______________+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Petermand GACHET ___|
| (.... - 1574) |
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____________+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Claude GACHET ______|
| (1549 - 1588) m 1580|
| | _George MURISET _____________
| | | (.... - 1579)
| |_Antheyne MURISET ___|
| (1533 - 1573) |
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____________+
| (1520 - 1579)
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| _Jean NIBLE _________________+
| | (.... - 1570)
| _Benoît NIBLE _______|
| | (1522 - 1589) m 1550|
| | |_Isabel PERRIARD ____________+
| |
|_Françoise NIBLE ____|
(1564 - ....) m 1580|
| _Benoît du MOULIN ___________+
| | (.... - 1562)
|_Benoitte du MOULIN _|
(1530 - 1582) m 1550|
|_Isabel (Elizabeth) CHEVROD _+
(.... - 1557)
_Perrodus GACHET ____
| (1320 - ....)
_Johannes GACHET ____|
| (1350 - 1425) |
| |_____________________
|
_Petrus GACHET ______|
| (1371 - 1450) m 1437|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Perrussona _____ ___|
| (.... - 1425) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Mermeta _____ ______|
(.... - 1447) m 1437|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
_Pierre GACHET _______+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540|
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _____+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Josué GACHET _______|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1597|
| | _Guillaume REGNAULD __+
| | | (.... - 1559)
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____|
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540|
| |_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS _+
|
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| _Benoit MORATEL ______
| | (.... - 1565)
| _Nicod MORATEL ______|
| | m 1569 |
| | |______________________
| |
|_Jeanne MORATEL _____|
(.... - 1628) m 1597|
| _Daniel DEMONT _______
| | (1510 - 1568) m 1542
|_Claudine DEMONT ____|
m 1569 |
|_Anne MICHIEZ ________+
m 1542
[14767] Date of contract, Blaise Chalon, notary.
_François GACHET _______________+
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| |_Jaqueta CHALON ________________+
| m 1474
_Petermand GACHET ___|
| (.... - 1574) |
| | _Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503|
| |_Perronete BONNET (OR BOVET?) __+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| ________________________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |________________________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
| ________________________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|________________________________
Her verbal testament was recorded by André Delesmillières, notary of Montreux, on 01 apr 1607 (ACV DS 65/1). The testimony of her husband and of the minister Gabriel Page and his wife Esther Delaborne established that Marguerite had died 9 to 10 weeks before that date, thus in late January, 1607. The witnesses agreed that she had left her entire estate to her husband. As a result of this document, it is clear that all of the children of "Bastian" Mayor in the church books of Montreux from the earliest record in 1590 until 1607 are hers. There were likely several more children born at Montreux before 1590. Her husband remarried at least twice, but only the last of these marriages is recorded at Montreux.
_François GACHET _______________+
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ___________|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503 |
| |_Jaqueta CHALON ________________+
| m 1474
_Daniel GACHET _______________|
| (.... - 1583) m 1560 |
| | _Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _________|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503 |
| |_Perronete BONNET (OR BOVET?) __+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
|
| _Philibert MESTRAL (DE RUE) ____+
| |
| _Girard MESTRAL (DE RUE) _|
| | (1485 - 1557) m 1526 |
| | |_Jaqueta CORDEY ________________+
| |
|_Magdelaine MESTRAL (DE RUE) _|
m 1560 |
| _Pierre CROSTEL ________________
| | (.... - 1573)
|_Perissone CROSTEL _______|
m 1526 |
|_Guillauma SECHAULX ____________
(.... - 1573)
Marguerite's marriage settlement with her second husband was recorded by Jaques Girod, notary at Payerne, 27 mar 1587. It mentions bequests to Marguerite that constitute her dowry of 1475 fl.: 475 fl. from her inheritance from N. Jaques Valliez, received from her uncle P. Valliez de Crissier au Landeron; 800 fl. in lieu of usufruct from the estate of her first husband in accordance with their marriage contract; and another 200 fl. evidently by way of repayment of a debt? The 800 fl. amount is accompanied by an odd phrase, "...ledit assignateur auroit retire pour hemende de l'hommiccide perpetré à Nyon de sondit feu mary declayré et ordonné par la souverain mettre oultre..." It is evident from this that her first husband Gérard Guissant was murdered at Nyon sometime before 1583 (date of the marriage record with Benoit Nible at Payerne). An accompanying document concerns the division of a woodlot apparently held jointly with the heirs of the late Claude Banquettaz. It is not explained how this property came to be jointly owned.
The Valliez name is certainly the modern family Vallier de Cressier (with an additional branch Wallier de Soleure), a branch of the house of d'Estavayer. In fact, both Reynold and Vallier are described in various sources as "de Cressier", so it is very possible that (a) there may be some of them identified under both names, or (b) that Marguerite's mother's mother was a Vallier. This last possiblity would play out as follows: N. Jaques Vallier would have been her great-grandfather or possibly her great-uncle, and a grandson or son of Jaques would thus have been the Pierre Vallier uncle to Marguerite. Such a relationship might be expected to be mentioned in Marguerite's first marriage contract to Gérard Guissant (modern surname is spelled Guisan, well known at Avenches). Hence, the parish registers and notarial records at Avenches need to be checked as well.
The Vallier family is generally listed as "Vallier de Cressier et Vallier du Landeron", and our document gives all three names, so we are certainly on the right track. There appears to material on this family 1307-1887 at the archives of Neuchatel, in addition of an account in the Genealogiste Suisse, vol. 10 (1943), pp. 88-98.
Accounts of Guisan of Avenches appear in the Schweitzerisches Geschlechterbuch, vol. 7 pp 205-216, and of de Reynold in volumes 1 pp 438-448 and 5 pp 519-521. De Chambrier appears also in the same volumes.
Marguerite's mother is clearly Marguerite Vallier, and the former would have been perhaps 16 to 18 years old at the time of her first marriage about 1578. Marguerite's sister Jacobe identified her sisters (including Marguerite) without any indication that one or more of them was of a different mother. If that can be taken at face value, then all of the sisters would have been born after about 1557, since Jean Amey Gachet's first wife Denise Regnaud was still alive in 1556.
There is a problem with the dates here. Marguerite's last child by Guisan (Nicolas) was baptised at Payerne 27 jan 1583, and there are court documents dated 31 jan 1583 mentioning Nicolaus and his brother Daniel as heirs of Gérard. (The matter was not Gérard's estate, but an inheritance from the Mayor de Lutry family, of which Gérard and his brothers Samuel and Jean Jaques would each have been entitled to one third.) One of these documents notes that Marguerite had already remarried to Nible, in spite of the apparently clear marriage date at Payerne recorded 4 months later. It is possible, perhaps, that the church marriage was not recorded until a suitable period of mourning had elapsed, even though the marriage contract had already been signed.
Emile Ritter says that she married third to Pierre Tribolet of Neuchâtel (he died 1592). This marriage is also reported by Pierre-Arnold and Jacqueline Borel, in their Miéville genealogy.
[14591] Date from notes of Jacques Moreillon (FHL microfilm), no source given.
_François GACHET _______________+
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| |_Jaqueta CHALON ________________+
| m 1474
_Jean Amey GACHET ___|
| (1504 - 1573) m 1540|
| | _Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503|
| |_Perronete BONNET (OR BOVET?) __+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
| (1550 - ....)
| _Jaques VALLIER ________________+
| | (.... - 1500)
| _Pierre VALLIER _____|
| | (1488 - 1552) m 1510|
| | |_Marguerite DE CRESSIER ________+
| |
|_Marguerite VALLIER _|
(1505 - 1560) m 1540|
| _Martin "le VERRIER" ___________
| |
|_Marie ODET _________|
(.... - 1546) m 1510|
|________________________________
Described as his sister, Niklaus Gatschet records that she attended his wedding in Bern, January, 1559, and she was then living in Payerne. From this, it seems we can rule out that she was actually a sister of his bride. We are less sure whether she might have been Marguerite Vallier, wife of Jean Amey Gachet. Assuming she is really a sister of Niklaus, it is very likely that the name of her husband is recorded somewhere in the records of the notaries of Payerne.
_Nicoletus GACHET __________+
| (1408 - 1458)
_François GACHET _______________|
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474 |
| |_Anne DE VILLARZEL _________
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| | _Nicod CHALON ______________+
| | | (.... - 1479)
| |_Jaqueta CHALON ________________|
| m 1474 |
| |_Françoise CUEX ____________+
|
|
|--Marguerite GACHET
| (.... - 1559)
| ______ DE TORCULARI ________
| |
| _Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT _|
| | (1460 - 1513) m 1480 |
| | |____________________________
| |
|_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
(.... - 1553) m 1503|
| _Pierre BONNET (OR BOVET?) _+
| | (1430 - 1480)
|_Perronete BONNET (OR BOVET?) __|
(.... - 1513) m 1480 |
|_Amphilisia _____ __________
Catechumen, Christmas 1710, listed as Salomé, daughter of Mr. l'Advoyer Gachet. She may be the Marie Salomé Gachet who is mentioned in various notarial records in the 1730's, purchasing property and loaning money, but there are reasons to suppose otherwise.
Although she should not normally have required a guardian as late as 1737, she is clearly the Salomé Gatchet daughter of the late Monsieur l'Advoyer Gatchet whose "tuteur" Samuel Nicolas de Trey, ancien banneret, sold various properties on her behalf beginning 27 nov 1737 (Samuel Comte, notary at Payerne, ACV DP 21/2). The minutaires of the same notary document several transactions showing that her affairs were managed by the Chambre des Orphelins of Payerne, and that she had other guardians over the course of many years, such as N. François Nicolas de Treytorrens (1729) and Frédéric Jaccaud (1735).
_Jean GACHET ________
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1680) m 1640|
| |_Anne DE TREY _______+
| m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1722) m 1682|
| | _Abraham DESSIBORD __
| | |
| |_Jeanne DESSIBORD ___|
| m 1640 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Marguerite Salomé GACHET
| (.... - 1737)
| _Pierre COMTE _______+
| | m 1614
| _Samuel COMTE _______|
| | m 1652 |
| | |_Susanne RUÉRAT _____+
| | m 1614
|_Anne Marie COMTE ___|
(.... - 1729) m 1682|
| _____________________
| |
|_Magdelaine JACCAUD _|
m 1652 |
|_____________________
__
|
__|
| |
| |__
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1612) m 1604|
| | __
| | |
| |__|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--Marie GACHET
|
| __
| |
| __|
| | |
| | |__
| |
|_Eva OTTONIN ________|
m 1604 |
| __
| |
|__|
|
|__
Illegitimate daugher of Josué, the name of the mother not given in the baptismal register, thus possibly not the daughter of Jeanne Moratel.
_Pierre GACHET _______+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540|
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _____+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Josué GACHET _______|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1597|
| | _Guillaume REGNAULD __+
| | | (.... - 1559)
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____|
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540|
| |_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS _+
|
|
|--Marie GACHET
|
| _Benoit MORATEL ______
| | (.... - 1565)
| _Nicod MORATEL ______|
| | m 1569 |
| | |______________________
| |
|_Jeanne MORATEL _____|
(.... - 1628) m 1597|
| _Daniel DEMONT _______
| | (1510 - 1568) m 1542
|_Claudine DEMONT ____|
m 1569 |
|_Anne MICHIEZ ________+
m 1542
_____________________
|
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609|
| |_____________________
|
_Abraham GACHET _____|
| (.... - 1667) m 1647|
| | _Abraham DE TREY ____+
| | | (1549 - 1596) m 1591
| |_Anne DE TREY _______|
| m 1609 |
| |_Anne JOCCET ________+
| (.... - 1601) m 1591
|
|--Marie GACHET
|
| _André FIVAZ ________
| | (.... - 1598)
| _Pierre FIVAZ _______|
| | m 1602 |
| | |_Antheine CHUARD ____+
| | (1550 - 1591)
|_Elizabeth FIVAZ ____|
m 1647 |
| _Daniel RIBAUD ______
| |
|_Esther RIBAUD ______|
m 1602 |
|_____________________
We are not completely sure which of the "Magdelaines" married Abraham Chuard. Assisting at her marriage contract, held under the coustumier de Lausanne at Granges-près-Marnand, were her brother-in-law Moyse Biolley, notary of Lausanne, and François Estoppey, Lieutenant de Granges, her maternal uncle.
[14727] Date of contract, from the Chuard genealogy, which calls the bride Magdelaine. We found the contract in the records of Jean Estoppy, notary at Granges-près-Marnand (ACV DP 38/1).
_Pierre GACHET _______+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540|
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _____+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Josué GACHET _______|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1597|
| | _Guillaume REGNAULD __+
| | | (.... - 1559)
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____|
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540|
| |_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS _+
|
|
|--Marie (Magdelaine) GACHET
| (.... - 1652)
| _Benoit MORATEL ______
| | (.... - 1565)
| _Nicod MORATEL ______|
| | m 1569 |
| | |______________________
| |
|_Jeanne MORATEL _____|
(.... - 1628) m 1597|
| _Daniel DEMONT _______
| | (1510 - 1568) m 1542
|_Claudine DEMONT ____|
m 1569 |
|_Anne MICHIEZ ________+
m 1542
[14828] Contract dated 19 may 1699, recorded by Jerome de Trey, notary at Payerne (ACV DP 30/1).
_Jean GACHET ________
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1680) m 1640|
| |_Anne DE TREY _______+
| m 1609
_David GACHET _______|
| (.... - 1722) m 1682|
| | _Abraham DESSIBORD __
| | |
| |_Jeanne DESSIBORD ___|
| m 1640 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Marie Magdelaine GACHET
|
| _Pierre COMTE _______+
| | m 1614
| _Samuel COMTE _______|
| | m 1652 |
| | |_Susanne RUÉRAT _____+
| | m 1614
|_Anne Marie COMTE ___|
(.... - 1729) m 1682|
| _____________________
| |
|_Magdelaine JACCAUD _|
m 1652 |
|_____________________
_Jean GACHET ________
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609
_Abraham GACHET _____|
| (.... - 1667) m 1647|
| |_Anne DE TREY _______+
| m 1609
_Samuel GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1733) |
| | _Pierre FIVAZ _______+
| | | m 1602
| |_Elizabeth FIVAZ ____|
| m 1647 |
| |_Esther RIBAUD ______+
| m 1602
|
|--Marie Magdelaine GACHET
| (.... - 1765)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
_Abraham GACHET _____+
| (.... - 1667) m 1647
_Samuel GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1733) |
| |_Elizabeth FIVAZ ____+
| m 1647
_Jean Baptiste Daniel GACHET _|
| (1702 - 1762) m 1722 |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_____________________|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Marie Marguerite GACHET
| (.... - 1784)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Susanne Elizabeth PECLAT ____|
(1705 - 1755) m 1722 |
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
During the period when Pierre Gachet was the secretary for the city of Payerne, only one other Gachet is mentioned there, a priest, Nicolas Gachet. For a long time, we were unable to find any indication of his relationships, or any source that mentioned any siblings of Pierre. However, a Nicolas Gachet who is cited as curé at Yvonand (and of Bonvillars, in a terrier dated 1527 for the chapel of St. Martin in the cathedral of Lausanne, now at the AVL) accompanied Pierre Falk on his famous expedition to Jerusalem in 1519. This Nicolas is usually assumed to be the same person as the Nicolas Gachet who was chaplain at Payerne in 1514 and curé de Payerne as late as 1533, but we were unable to find any source for this assertion, although one can read between the lines to reach this conclusion from the account of the pilgrimages of Peter Falck (Max de Diesbach, "Les pèlerins fribourgeois à Jerusalem", Archives de la Société d'histoire du Canton de Fribourg, 5:189- 282, 1893, referencing the Manuaux de Conseil of Fribourg, nos. 37 and 38, as the source for the information about Nicolas Gachet) . Nicolas would be of the right generation to be a sibling of Pierre. That he was at Payerne is established by the accounts of the city for 1516, where he is described as curé d'Yvonand, with a salary from the city of Payerne of 8 florins for maintaining the clock tower. He was still at Payerne, curé d'Yvonand, at the imposition of the Reformation in 1537. He did not accept the new religion, and nothing further seems to be known of him. The one member of the secular clergy at Payerne who did change with the times was Nicod Maringod, who had succeeded Nicolas Gachet as the keeper of the city clock (cited in Maxime Reymond's extended history of the Abbey of Payerne, published in installments in the Revue historique vaudoise, 1912-1913). An account of a meeting of the Société vaudoise d'histoire et d'archéologie at Yvonand in 1938 (Revue historique vaudoise 46:377-381) notes that the parish archives still had two papal indulgences (1509 and 1512, from the pontificate of Julius II) that had been issued to Nicolas Gachet for the church at Yvonand. It appears that at least some of the possessions of this church were removed to the catholic church at Cheyres (Fribourg), previously an annex of the parish of Yvonand, during the Reformation. The church at Bonvillars was probably a more lucrative post, and because of the importance of that church, we might expect some interesting records to have survived. The identity of this Nicolas Gachet now seems almost certain, with the discovery of a document in which he holds property jointly with his nephews, sons of the late notary Pierre Gachet (and one of those nephews is named, Jean Amey Gachet), in 1533 — this can only be an allusion to the late secretary of the city, who died in 1528 (ACV C VIIb 2634).
The indulgence issued in 1512 for Nicolas and the chapel of the Virgin Mary at the parish church of Yvonand, of which he was the curate is now in the collections of the Archives Cantonales Vaudoises. A photograph, along with a complete transcript and French translation, may be found at this site.
_Petrus GACHET ______+
| (1371 - 1450) m 1409
_Nicoletus GACHET ___|
| (1408 - 1458) |
| |_Francesia CROSTEL __+
| (1392 - 1450) m 1409
_François GACHET ____|
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Anne DE VILLARZEL __|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Nicolas GACHET
| (1487 - 1537)
| _Jean CHALON ________+
| |
| _Nicod CHALON _______|
| | (.... - 1479) |
| | |_Antheine du CREST __+
| |
|_Jaqueta CHALON _____|
m 1474 |
| _Pierre CUEX ________
| |
|_Françoise CUEX _____|
|
|_____________________
Placed here provisionally, as no definite record of his birth or his parentage has been found. He was known usually as David, and was the secrétaire de Payerne about 1591-1593. He left a legacy to Petermann Gachet, who would be his nephew if we have placed him correctly. The notaries make no mention of his heirs or wives in the records examined to date. His notarial registers from 1591-1593 survive (ACV DP 42/1, FHL microfilm #0997090). He was admitted to the notariat of Payerne 06 jan 1591, according to his registers.
_François GACHET _______________+
| (1450 - 1487) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| |_Jaqueta CHALON ________________+
| m 1474
_Petermand GACHET ___|
| (.... - 1574) |
| | _Aimé (Aymo, Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503|
| |_Perronete BONNET (OR BOVET?) __+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
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|--Nicolas David GACHET
| (1565 - 1593)
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| _George MURISET _____|
| | (.... - 1579) |
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|_Antheyne MURISET ___|
(1533 - 1573) |
| _Guillaume REGNAULD ____________+
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|_Denise REGNAULD ____|
(1520 - 1579) |
|_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS ___________+
_Perrodus GACHET ____
| (1320 - ....)
_Nicoletus GACHET ___|
| (1371 - 1416) |
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_Roletus GACHET _____|
| (1391 - 1447) |
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| |_Marguereta _____ ___|
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|--Nicoletus GACHET
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|_Katherina _____ ____|
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Cited in 1416 (Pierre de Treyvaux, notary at Payerne) as the late father of Roletus Gachet of Villars-en-Vully, this attribution repeated in 1450 in a document relating to a dispute over property held jointly with heirs of Johannes Gachet, who would be about the same generation as Nicoletus. They were brothers, sons of Perrodus, as noted in several reconnaissances of the period. His wife Marguereta is named in a reconnaissance by their son Roletus Gachet, 13 may 1441, C XX 45/5 (reference Aa 28/1 p. 41, part of the Inventaire Vert).
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Document of Jean de Trevaux, notary at Payerne, dated 02 may 1475 (ACV Dp 107, fol. 54), has Petrus Gaschet filius quondam Nicolleti Gaschet burgensis paterniaci selling property to Dompnus Johannes Innens, procuror for the clergy of the chapel of the Virgin Mary at Payerne. However, "Petrus" is lined out, and "Franciscus" written in the margin in the same hand. Just a few pages earlier (fol. 51), a complex document identifies Marguerite Gachet wife of Rodulphus Prouz as the daughter of the late Petrus Gachet and also as the (paternal) sister of Nicolletus Gachet.
There is also mention of the wife of Nicolletus' son Franciscus (Jaqueta, sister of Bartholemée Chalon) in the same document on fol. 51, but the text is difficult to decipher. Others reached the same conclusion, as the Chalon line, with this connection included, has been documented in research for descendant Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of the LDS Church (his grandmother was from the Ballif family that converted to Mormonism early and left Lausanne in time to join the early migrations to Salt Lake City). At first, it seemed to us that Nicoletus had a first wife Mermeta, but this now seems more likely a misreading of the document. See below for the other tradition, that the wife of Nicoletus was from the Villarsel family.
Our Nicolletus Gachet is mentioned in a number of documents of Jacobus Bellin (notary at Payerne, the surviving register covers 1430-1459, much of it in tatters and damaged by water) and Nicod Mareschet (the register covers 1431-1439, most records relating to residents of Villars-en-Vully). A settlement of a dispute, dated 28 dec 1450 (fols. 82-86v), involves Nicoletus Gachet son of the late Petrus Gachet bourgeois of Payerne of the first part and Johannes and Nicoletus Gachet sons of Rolet Gachet of Villard en Vuilliez of the second part. Even earlier, 1430, Petrus Gachet is identified as a notary of Payerne and appears to own property jointly with Rolet Gachet. The latter has wife Katherina and son Johannes whose wife is Antonia. Nicoletus son of Petrus sells property on his own as early as 1442, but still appears to sell with approval of his father on 06 nov 1434 (Nicodus Mareschet, notary, Dp 64, fol. 81). From this we infer that Nicoletus was born after 1409, so that he had not yet reached the age of 25 in 1434. This is consistent with his reported birth date (see below, this information probably comes from "lost" papers of the Gachet family that were available to a few historians in the early 20th Century, or possibly to a dossier of some kind in the archives of Payerne). Rolet is probably the same person identified as the son of the late Nycoletus Gaschet of Villars-en-Vully in a document recorded by Pierre de Treyvaux, 29 jun 1416.
The settlement of 1450 is resolves a dispute between Nicoletus Gachet and the family of Rolet Gachet over property that Nicoletus claimed from the estate of his grandfather, Johannes Gachet. Nicoletus also identifies his father and mother, her father, and other family members. The two branches are stated to descend from Perrodus Gachet, father of Johannes. The resolution of the dispute, faded and heavily abbreviated, has also not been completely deciphered. This long-running dispute over the division of property at Villars-en-Vully has the effect of tying together several generations of this family, proving that the family at Villars is the same one known at Payerne. More information will probably be found in the terriers for the region around Villars, now at the cantonal archives of Vaud and Fribourg.
Nicolletus Gaschet seems to be the same person who is described in the following passage, attributed to Marcel Henchoz and Arnold Gachet, in the Saaner Jahrbuch of 1973, in the course of an article by Ulrich Christian Haldi. Although some of the statements in this article are obviously incorrect and confused (possibly reflecting what Arnold Gachet had gleaned from inspection of family papers in possession of Adèle Peyron-Gatschet, the last known representative of the branch of Bern), this one seems clear:
"Vers la fin du 18me siècle, Nicolas Gachet [1736-1817, the painter and genealogist] a pu se recueillir dans la chapelle Gachet de l'église paroissiale de Payerne devant les dalles funéraires de ses ancêtres. Suivant une note du dossier Gachet aux Archives de la Ville de Payerne, c'est là que se trouvait le tombeau de Nicolas Gachet, né en 1418, Avoyer de Payerne, mort en 1468. La charge atteste que la famille était là depuis un certain temps déjà et que son niveau social était reconnu.
"Toutes ces pierres tombales ont disparu vers 1817, moment où le colonel de Dompierre, archéologue cantonal, fit transporter dans la chapelle Gachet (branche payernoise éteinte en 1812) ce que l'on pensait être les restes de la Reine Berthe de Bourgogne."
Thus the legend of Queen Berthe has resulted in the loss of real historical artifacts!
There are even more layers of ambiguity in the story of Queen Berthe. The tomb excavated by Col. de Dompierre was in the narthex of the final Abbey. Later excavations revealed the outlines of the much smaller first church on the same site, the one that would have existed at the time of Berthe's death in 961. In the center of the nave of the first church is an isolated burial, logically the true resting place of Berthe from the contemporary sources, but this part of the Abbey was turned into a bell foundry in the 17th Century, and the burial had been opened and emptied. An analysis of the bone fragments apparently associated with this burial revealed the presence of remains from at least 6 individuals, of which only a handful could be assigned to an adult female. Thus, the monument to Queen Berthe does not even contain her remains, but rather those of someone else buried much later in the narthex of the present Abbey!
The discovery that the "testament" of Berthe, of which two different versions are known, was a forgery was announced first by Victor van Berchem in 1905 at a meeting of the Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande. The first published notices to this effect followed shortly. There were a number of attempts to rationalize—perhaps the versions we possess today are simply imperfect copies of a real donation—but eventually the scope of the fraud was accepted. By the 1920's, it was clear to almost everyone that the testament and related forgeries from the 12th Century served the purpose of asserting the right of the monks of Payerne to elect their own leaders. The documents contain a number of anachronisms, and bear an impossible date, since other records show that Berthe had died shortly before the "testament" was supposed to have been dictated.
A notable exception to the 20th Century consensus on the authenticity of the supposed "testament" of Queen Berthe was Charles-Albert Cingria, whose La Reine Berthe (1947) has been reprinted (1992, Lausanne: Editions L'Age d'Homme). Cingria apparently subscribed to the belief that truth is beauty, and beauty, truth, and that therefore, the most beautiful version of the story must be the one that we should regard as true in a deep and meaningfully poetic sense.
Edmond Ischi, president of the Association du Vieux Payerne, reports that no inscriptions can be found in the "chapelle Gachet" in the parish church of Payerne today, apart from the family arms at the top of the vaulted ceiling. The church still has inscriptions and other artifacts from some of the other old families of Payerne, and a picture of a window with the Gachet arms (now removed from the church, and its whereabouts currently uncertain) was published in Galbreath's Armorial Vaudois.
A pedigree chart of the Gachet family drawn by Charles-Philippe Dumont is in the collections of the ACV. It gives the wife of our Nicoletus as Anne, daughter of Willelme de Villarzel and Guillette (Guillermette?) de Montricher (this is not the same parentage for Anne de Villarzel quoted elsewhere). However, it appears that the "generations" on this chart are approximate, at best, and the well-documented parentage of Jean Amey Gachet and his brothers does not appear at all. The generation prior to our Nicoletus is represented only by Humbert, donzel, who died in 1416, with his wife Jeanne, daughter of Antoine de Combremont and Jeanne de Faucigny. From the documents already presented above, it is clear that Humbert is not the father of our Nicoletus, unless there were actually two men named Nicolas Gachet, one involved in the dispute over property at Villars-en-Vully, the other the Avoyer de Payerne who died in 1468. Here too, investigation of property tax records, if they exist, might be helpful. We think it likely that Dumont based his pedigree chart on the notes of von Mülinen at the Burgerbibliothek in Bern, but the partial transcript of these notes prepared by Therese Metzger differs in a number of details, among others the name of the mother of the wife of our Nicoletus.
There is, however, some evidence suggesting that there is a Villarzel in the Gachet ancestry. When Pierre Gachet died in 1528, his estate was managed by Nicolas Moratel and the de Prez family. Normally, this role would be performed by relatives who did not stand to inherit from the estate. Were Moratel and the de Prez family connected by blood or marriage to the Gachet family? Terriers for the "noble fiefs" of Lausanne show that Nicolas Moratel had an ancestor from the Villarzel family, and some sources (but not the same terriers) show a Villarzel connection for the de Prez family. The details are not yet clear. Also, the family tree recently located in private hands, probably the same one from the hand of the painter and genealogist Niklaus Gatschet (1736-1817), and dating from around 1790, shows the Villarzel coat of arms at what appears to be this generation. However, if the wife of Nicoletus was indeed a Villarzel, no trace of her has been found in the primary sources.
A further confusion is introduced by the discovery in the registers of the notary Petrus Moron (père) (ACV Dp 71/1, fol. 30v) of a transaction involving "Petrus Gaschet filius quondam Nycolleti Gaschet", 14 jan 1459 (old style, 1460 by the modern calendar), who purchased property at Payerne from Glaudius Advoye of Payerne. There does not seem to be another Petrus son of Nicoletus, so this record would place the death of the present Nicoletus in 1458 instead of 1468. In that case, the dates 1418-1468 are called into question, and would presumably become 1408-1458, since the usual formula for such information at that time would be the year of death and the age at death, from which the year of birth would be computed. Hence, we show the dates as 1408-1458, which seems to make other dates from this family line up a little better. It should be noted that ages are frequently rounded to the nearest 5 years (the well-known phenomenon of "age heaping"), so it may be that the implied age of 70 years could be an estimate. From other evidence, we would expect Nicoletus to have been born about 1409 or later, so that he would not have reached the age of majority in 1434, when he sold property with approval of his father.
[2485] Birth and death dates from a reported transcript of inscriptions in the family chapel at Payerne, now lost and replaced with the supposed remains of Queen Berthe! However, see notes!
_Perrodus GACHET ____
| (1320 - ....)
_Johannes GACHET ____|
| (1350 - 1425) |
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_Petrus GACHET ______|
| (1371 - 1450) m 1409|
| | _____________________
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| |_Perrussona _____ ___|
| (.... - 1425) |
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|--Nicoletus GACHET
| (1408 - 1458)
| _Aymetus CROSTEL ____
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| _Johannes CROSTEL ___|
| | (1372 - 1450) |
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|_Francesia CROSTEL __|
(1392 - 1450) m 1409|
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_Roletus GACHET _____+
| (1391 - 1447)
_Johannes GACHET ____|
| (.... - 1486) m 1434|
| |_Katherina _____ ____
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_Aymon GACHET _______|
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| | _Petrus DE VILLAR ___
| | | (.... - 1434)
| |_Antonia DE VILLAR __|
| m 1434 |
| |_____________________
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|--Nycoletus GACHET
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_Nicoletus GACHET ___+
| (1371 - 1416)
_Roletus GACHET _____|
| (1391 - 1447) |
| |_Marguereta _____ ___
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_Johannes GACHET ____|
| (.... - 1486) m 1434|
| | _____________________
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| |_Katherina _____ ____|
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|--Nycoletus GACHET
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| _Petrus DE VILLAR ___|
| | (.... - 1434) |
| | |_____________________
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|_Antonia DE VILLAR __|
m 1434 |
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