DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland
Elsbeth NOLL (ID #I11802)
(female)
- BIRTH: 5 JUN 1536, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- DEATH: 16 DEC 1587, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Father: Antoni NOLL (b. bef 1480, d. 1544)
Mother: Agnes LERBER (dates unknown)
Family 1
:
_____ HUBER (d. BEF 1559)
- Elsbeth HUBER (d. 16 JAN 1565)
Family 2
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Niklaus GATSCHET (b. 29 SEP 1526, d. 1608)
- MARRIAGE: 30 JAN 1559, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Susanna GATSCHET (b. 15 DEC 1559, d. 14 MAR 1578)
- Maria GATSCHET (b. 18 FEB 1561, d. 27 NOV 1566)
- Ursula GATSCHET (b. 4 JUN 1562, d. 1 OCT 1577)
- Sara GATSCHET (b. 21 MAY 1563)
- Esther GATSCHET (b. 1 AUG 1564, d. 8 AUG 1583)
- +Elsbeth GATSCHET (dates unknown)
- Maria GATSCHET (d. 3 SEP 1583)
- Eva GATSCHET (b. 23 DEC 1568, d. 15 OCT 1577)
- Johanna GATSCHET (b. 7 JUN 1570, d. 14 OCT 1577)
- +Niklaus GATSCHET (b. 8 OCT 1572, d. 1609)
- +Daniel GATSCHET (d. 1618)
- Magdalena GATSCHET (b. 8 SEP 1575, d. 30 SEP 1577)
- Antoni GACHET (b. 14 MAR 1577, d. 8 APR 1577)
- Peter GATSCHET (b. 19 AUG 1579, d. 6 AUG 1581)
Traditional genealogy, still being quoted on the internet (and by persons whose spam filters are set in such a way that we are unable to communicate with them!), lists her as the daughter of Sebastian Noll with a birthdate of 14 aug 1546. We know this cannot be true, as she would have been too young to have at least two children by her first husband before she married Niklaus Gatschet. The obvious solution is that she is the daughter of Antoni, father of Sebastian Noll, thereby also solving the problem of the identity of Maria, "sister" of Niklaus Gatschet, and wife of Hans Brunner. Maria was actually the sister of Elsbeth Noll. In 16th Century Bern, as elsewhere at that period, the informal and honorific use of "brother", "father", etc. to mean a close relative by marriage (such as brother-in-law, father-in-law, etc.) is frequently encountered in personal correspondance.
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From the church records of Bern. A different date is given by von Roth. Her godparents included Salome, wife of the preacher Peter Kuntz.
Baptism of Elsbeth Noll, from the church records at Bern.
_Peter NOLL _________
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_Hans NOLL __________|
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_Antoni NOLL ________|
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|_Agnes LERBER _______|
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Hans NOLL (ID #I20573)
(male)
glass painter
- DEATH: 1492, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Father: Peter NOLL (d. 1446)
Family 1
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- +Antoni NOLL (b. bef 1480, d. 1544)
Life of Christ and the arms of the Scharnachtal family in the church at Hilterfingen, circa 1470. Click here for larger pictures.
Famous glass painter. The best surviving example of his work was completed about 1470 during the rebuilding of the church at Hilterfingen. A series of 24 panels depicting the life of Christ is surmounted by a panel showing the arms of the Scharnachtal family, the sponsors of the construction project. During the Reformation and the centuries of Bernese domination that followed, the arts suffered a drastic decline. At first, they were simply regarded, at worst, as Catholic heresies that had to be destroyed in order to restore the Christian religion (Anthoni, son of Hans Noll, is credited with destroying an altar, while the crowd waited breathlessly to see if he would be struck down in divine retribution); at best, they were regarded as frivolous distractions from worship, and their maintenance as an unwarranted expense. What was not destroyed was consigned to decay. The survival of the window at Hilterfingen is thus almost miraculous.
The panels show a mastery of the medium. Noll achieved the impression of a simple, natural design of great depth and elegance, but the means of accomplishing the didactic purpose of the window are subtle. He had to adjust proportions, perspective, and postures in order to make room for all the required elements of each panel, while keeping the figures large enough to be seen by the worshippers. He used color first to attract the eye to the panels, and then to emphasize the story of each panel (the adult Jesus dressed in a blue-violet robe in many cases, and darker colors used mainly as a foil for the figures—the backgrounds of the panels alternate in the use of blue and red, creating an additional symmetry in the overall composition), but in a way that does not distract from the understanding of each scene. The approach to these panels contrasts with the Scharnachtal arms, which required specific colors. Although the Scharnachtal arms are more colorful than the panels of the life of Christ, they do not distract the eye from the panels below them. They are simply a mass of color that fails to hold the viewer's attention. They are positioned above the life of Christ, but that only makes the life of Christ seem larger and more visible from the level of the worshipper. (While volumes have been published about the glass paintings at Hilterfingen, they are not mentioned in the recent account of Hans Noll on the web site of the Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse. Can anyone provide further information about the attribution of these windows to Hans Noll?)
It would be difficult to overstate the level of accomplishment and sophistication of the arts in pre-Reformation Bern. Besides the Noll family, we might cite the case of Niklaus Manuel, known as a very accomplished painter, a poet, a dramatist... in fact, the embodiment of a Renaissance Man. From this brilliant milieu, fully informed of what was going on in Italy, Paris, Heidelberg, Basel and the other great centers of learning, and with transfusions of luminaries such as Peter Cyro from Fribourg and many other notables, sprang the Reformation, as well as the political ambitions of Bern, its elaborate but stultifying bureaucracy, and its cozy patriciat!
We are indebted to Therese Metzger for the excellent photographs.
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Noted as deceased before Easter, 1493.
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Hans NOLL (ID #I20577)
(male)
- BIRTH: bef 1531
- DEATH: bef 1573
Father: Antoni NOLL (b. bef 1480, d. 1544)
Mother: Agnes LERBER (dates unknown)
Family 1
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Verena BRUNNER (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 21 JAN 1551, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Froneck NOLL (dates unknown)
- Katharina NOLL (dates unknown)
- Froneck NOLL (dates unknown)
Family 2
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Madlen MATTBRETTER (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 8 JAN 1554, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Georg NOLL (dates unknown)
When his sister Maria, wife of Hans Brunner, made her will 05 jan 1573, she mentioned three children of her late brother Hans Noll: Hans, Bartholome, and Sara (wife of Lienhard von Werdt) . We did not find baptisms for Bartholome and Sara, but at least this document seems to reveal the parentage of the Bartholome Noll who married Madlen Brenzikofer in 1550 and baptised at least 8 children 1551-1574. Further, she mentions Salome, also a daughter of her brother Hans Noll. It is surprising that these baptisms are apparently not found at Bern, unless Hans had moved out of Bern for several years.
_Peter NOLL _________
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_Hans NOLL __________|
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_Antoni NOLL ________|
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|--Hans NOLL
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|_Agnes LERBER _______|
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Margareth NOLL (ID #I16552)
(female)
- BIRTH: 6 DEC 1534, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Father: Antoni NOLL (b. bef 1480, d. 1544)
Mother: Agnes LERBER (dates unknown)
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Day of month a bit uncertain, appears to be 6 in Roman numerals. Her godparents included the minister Berchtold Haller.
Baptism of Margreth Noll, from the church records at Bern.
_Peter NOLL _________
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_Hans NOLL __________|
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_Antoni NOLL ________|
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|--Margareth NOLL
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|_Agnes LERBER _______|
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Maria NOLL (ID #I11875)
(female)
- BIRTH: BEF 1532?, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- DEATH: AFT 1575, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Father: Antoni NOLL (b. bef 1480, d. 1544)
Mother: Agnes LERBER (dates unknown)
Family 1
:
Johann BRUNNER (d. 10 MAY 1573)
- Johann BRUNNER (dates unknown)
- Verena BRUNNER (dates unknown)
- Caspar BRUNNER (dates unknown)
Clearly identified in the family book of Niklaus Gatschet as his "sister", wife of Johann (Hans) Brunner of Bern, architect. She was present at the wedding of Niklaus in 1559, and on that occasion she presented him with "ein guldiger Ring mit einem Totenköpfli" (a golden ring with a little skull), apparently a very fashionable accessory in those days, when the Reformation was still new. Maria, the daughter of Niklaus, later lived with the Brunner family for a time.
Her testament of 05 jan 1573 mentions children of her late brother Hans Noll, children of her sister Elsbeth Noll by her first husband, and a number of other relatives, thus clarifying many relationships implied in other sources.
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Based on the manscript notes on the Noll family at the Burgerbibliothek of Bern, MSS h. h. VIII 20.
_Peter NOLL _________
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_Hans NOLL __________|
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_Antoni NOLL ________|
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|--Maria NOLL
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|_Agnes LERBER _______|
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Peter NOLL (ID #I20574)
(male)
blacksmith
- DEATH: 1446, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Family 1
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- +Hans NOLL (d. 1492)
Source for the genealogy of the Noll family is the von Roth dossiers at the Burgerbibliothek of Bern, Mss. h. h. Vlll 20, supplemented by church records and information gleaned from testaments of relatives. Peter Noll came from the German Palatinate and was one of a small group of master glass painters that developed in Bern from about 1450. See Hahnloser, Chorfenster und Altäre des Berner Münsters, 1951.
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