_Nicoletus GACHET ___
| (1371 - 1416)
_Roletus GACHET _____|
| (1391 - 1450) |
| |_____________________
|
_Bartholomeus GACHET _|
| (1464 - 1495) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Katherina _____ ____|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Jaqueta GACHET
|
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Margareta _____ _____|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
In 1562, Jaquette Gachet widow of Claude Berthod, barber of Payerne, sold the barber's tools of her late husband and of her late son Louis, to her son-in-law Jaques Bergeret alias Berset, barber and bourgeois of Payerne (Abraham Chuard, notary). The same notary recorded her testament of 22 aug 1563, which names her children Catherine, Marguerite, Barbli (Barbille), Sabey (Isabel), and Louis (deceased), plus the two children of Louis, Louise and Anna.
_Nicoletus GACHET ___+
| (1418 - 1468)
_François GACHET _________|
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474 |
| |_Mermette _____ _____
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| | _Nicod CHALON _______+
| | | (.... - 1479)
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________|
| m 1474 |
| |_Françoise CUEX _____+
|
|
|--Jaquetta GACHET
| (.... - 1563)
| ______ DE TORCULARI _
| |
| _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _|
| | (1460 - 1513) m 1480 |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
(.... - 1553) m 1503|
| _Pierre BOVET _______+
| | (.... - 1480)
|_Perronete BOVET _________|
(.... - 1513) m 1480 |
|_Amphilisia _____ ___
The story of Jean Gachet has been conflated with that of his elder brother Jean Amey in almost every account that has been published to date. The version most often seen claims that Jean Amey Gachet was the Seigneur de Bellevaux, and that his wife was Denise Regnauld. Denise was the daughter of Guillaume Regnauld, who inherited the fief of Bellevaux, near Neuchâtel, from his aunt Marguerite de Bellevaux, the last of her family. Denise brought the fief of Bellevaux into the Gachet family as part of her dowry (however, the marriage contract has not been located), or else she inherited it after the death of Jacob, the only legitimate son of Guillaume Regnauld—both versions of this part of the story have been published.
In fact, it was not Jean Amey, but his younger brother Jean Gachet who married Denise Regnauld, a fact that is easily demonstrated through the documents we have assembled, and with the help of the actual death dates of Jean Amey and Jean, recorded by their brother Niklaus Gatschet in his "Hussbüchli" (now at the Burgerbibliothek of Bern).
Jean Gachet married a second time to Catherine Maillard or Maillardoz, by whom he had a daughter Jacobé, who settled the terms of her inheritance with her brother Josué 30 dec 1612 (Denis Pivard, notary at Moudon; the date is probably significant, for it was at about that time that Josué was exiled because of irregularities in the performance of his duties as Avoyer de Payerne). It is also possible, though not considered likely, that Catherine Maillard and her daughter belong to a later generation that has somehow escaped notice. But if that were true, we would need also a second Josué, and there seems to be no evidence for this. The matter seems to be proven conclusively by a settlement dated 20 mar 1594 (Jaques Richard, notary at Moudon, DL 79/2 fol. 244) between Noble Françoise de Blonay, widow of Noble Cathellin Loys, and Noble Catherine Maillard, widow of the late Noble Jean Gachet bourgeois and conseiller de Payerne, Seigneur de Bellevaux, as tutrice of her daughter Jaquevé Gachet, regarding a mill at Donneloye.
Jean Ballif, notary at Payerne (mainly Combremont-le-Grand) (FHL microfilm #0996235), 30 aug 1583.
Remission et transaction d'entre noble Jehan Gachet et Egrege Jehan Jacquier.
fol. 62:
Noble Jehan Gachet donzel et bourgeois de Payerne comme sachant et bien advisé, cede, quicte, remet et habandonne à perpetuité pour luy, ses hoirs et successeurs quelconques, A honorable et Egrege Jehan Jacquier bourgeois et secretaire de Mouldon, Agissant du nom et comme conjoincte personne de noble Marguerite Morizet, Aussi au nom de noble Jehan Morizet de Romont, et de noble Claude Gachet dudit Payerne, present et au nom de chacung d'eulx stipulant et recepvant pour eulx leurs hoirs et successeurs quelconques, Assavoir les droictz et tiltres que s'ensuyvent. Et par vigueur desquelz ledit noble Jehan Gachet tenoit (?) lesdites pieces de vigne en Iceux speciffiées et limitées, sans deroguer toutesfoys à l'usfruict et jouissance qu'il a de la moytié entiere de toutes lesdites vignes sa vie durant, Aussy à la quart part de l'autre moytié apartenant à noble Josué Gachet son filz comme seul heritier de noble Denize Regnaut sa mere feue femme dudit noble Jehan Gachet. Premierement la vente (?) d'acquis faict par provide homme Claude Croserens citoyen de Lausanne de noble Guillaume Renaud bourgeois de Romont d'un morcel de vigne contenant demie pose size au territoyre de China ex lieudit desoubz Chenaulx jouxte ses limites, ledit acquis faict pour le pris de cinquante six escus d'or au soleil, ungchacung d'iceux vaillant quarante troy solz Lausannois bons, Constant des lettres (?) par discret Pierre Croserens notaire receue et signée, datté du quatorziesme de Septembre l'an mille cinq cenz dixneuf, la remission d'icelle faicte à honnorable Jaques Bonard au nom dudit noble Jehan Gachet par noble Nycod Rambert au nom de Marguerite Grand sa femme; est faict pour le pris dedits cinquante six escus d'or sol delivrées pour rehemption dudit morcel de vigne d'aultant au reachet ne estoit d'aucune appreciation d'iceulz, telle remise receue par discret Claude de Place du vingt et ung Jour du moys d'Apvril l'an mille cinq cenz septante (?) sept. Item, la lettre d'acquis faict par maitre Claude Burdet de Lausanne du prenommé Guillaume Renaud d'ung morcel de vigne contenant quatre fosseries sis au vignoble de Lalex
fol. 62 v.:
au lieudit dessoubz loz Chanoz, jouxte ses limites, ledit vendition faicte pour le prix de vingtsix escus d'or au soleil ungchacung d'iceux vaillant quarante troys sols Lausannois bons, Constant d'icelle noble Rod Chalon notayre receue et signée du Jeudi apres la feste Sainct Bartholomey, l'an mille cinq centz et seize, le reachept sus icelle concedé receu par ledit Rod Chalon pour ledit pris et de mesme datte signé par commission (en vigueur en mandement expres narré au pied dudit reachept) par noble Simon Pierre Chalon. La remission de la prementionné lettre d'acquisition faicte par vigueur dudit reachept et sentence extreme faicte par honnorable Jerome François citoyen de Lausanne audit noble Jehan Gachet pour le pris susdit et missions legitimes receue et signée par discret François Dudey notayre du sexiesme de Septembre mille cinq centz octante ung. Le lod sus l'adjudication de tel morcel de vigne faict audit noble Jehan Gachet par noble et vertueux Ludwig d'Erlach Baillifz d'Oron receu et signé par egrege George Ansel du penultieme de febrvrier mille cinq centz octante ung. Item, et la lettre d'acquis casuel faict par honnorable Jaques Bonard dudit noble Guillaume Renaud de deux morcels de vigne sis au vignoble dudit Grandvaux l'un au lieudit en Platrins (?) des Verchieres contenant cinq fosseries, et l'autre audit lieu là aupres contenant troys fosseries, pour le pris de cinqante escus d'or au soleil, act de (?) discret Claude des Granges notaire du second jour du moys de Janvier l'an mille cinz centz cinquante cinq. La remissive d'icelle faicte par vigueur de rehemption par ledit Jaques Bonard audit noble Jehan Gachet, et à noble Michée fille dudit noble Guillaume Renaud par legitime satisfaction dudit pris receue par egrege Estienne Richard du troisieme d'octobre mille cinq centz soixante sept, lesquelz tiltres prenarrés ont esté par ledit noble Jehan Gachet manuellement remis audit Jehan Jacquier pour le prix et somme de trente escus d'or au soleil marqués du coing du Roy de France de bon et ligitime poidz, et de quarante sept florins et cinq gros par ledit noble Jehan Gachet audit Jacquier au nom predit heuz et receuz pour legitime rehemption des troys partz de la moytié du total prix contenu aux actes susnarrés, lod (?), facions (?) de ... (?) et autres missions legitimes, de quelle somme ledit noble Jehan Gachet en quicte ledit Jacquier au nom comme dessus à perpetuité, par vigueur duquel payement et rehemption icelluy Jacquier au nom comme dessus jouira d'icy en avant desdits troys
fol. 63:
parts de ladite moytié desdits vignes le vie durant dudit noble Jehan Gachet, auquel comme sus est dit, la jouissance de l'autre moytié apartient, et apres son dit deces ledit dessus nommés au nom desquelz ledit Jacquier faicte la presente rehemption et leurs successeurs pourront et debvront rentrer jouir et posseder lesdits troys parts du parentier desdits vignes. En restituant aux heritiers dudit noble Jehan Gachet mesme et consemblable somme sus[dit] par ledit Jacquier audit noble Jehan Gachet expediée pour ledit troys parts de la moytié de ladit rehemption. La quarte part du totage desdits vignes devra à peretuité demeurer et apartenir au prenommé noble Josué filz dudit noble Jehan Gachet comme coheritier de sadite mere. Ainsy ce jourd'huy arresté et convenu entre ledit noble Jehan Gachet et ledit egrege Jehan Jacquier, et est à entendre que d'aultant ledit Jacquier a fourny et foncé la rehemption predit de ses propres desirs (?) ou de ceux de ladite noble Marguerite Morizet, que tous les autres coheritiers prenommés doivent restituer leur part et raste (reste?) de predite somme avant que le premier jour de leur droict et part dedit rehemption, le tout sans aucun fraud, prometant sur ce lesdits contrahans par leur bonne foy et obligation de tous leurs biens la presente rehemption et arrest avoir à perpetuité pour agreable et contre icelle jamais aller faire dire ne venir en maniere que ce soit, soubz poenne (peine?) de rendre et rembourser l'une des parties à l'autre reciproquement tous damps interestz et missions survenans pour le desfault de non avoir accomply, ny observé le contenu des choses prescriptes que sont esté faictes et passés audite Payerne le penultieme jour du moys d'Aoust l'an de grace courant mille cinq centz octante troys. En presence des honorables et prudens Claude Ruerat banderet et François de Trey, tous deux conseilliers et bourgeois dudit Payerne, tesmoins pour ce requis et appellés.
The three parcels and the documents cited with them are:
1. Demie pose, at Chenaux, "dessous Chenaulz": Claude Croserens sold for 56 ecus to Guillaume Renaud (Pierre Croserens, 14 sep 1519). After his death, and that of Denise, rights sold by Nycod Rambert on behalf of his wife Marguerite Grand to Jaques Bonard in the name of Jean Gachet for the same 56 ecus (Claude de Place, 21 apr 1577).
2. Quatre fosseries, vignoble de Lalex, "dessous los Chanoz": Claude Burdet of Lausanne sold for 26 ecus to Guillaume Renaud (Rod Chalon, Thursday after St. Bartholomy—thus late August—1516, with rachept from Simon Pierre Chalon of same date). After death of Renaud, Jerome François of Lausanne rendered a judgement to Jean Gachet for the same 26 ecus (François Dudey, 16 sep 1581). Lods granted by Louis d'Erlach, Baillif of Oron (George Ansel, 27 feb 1581).
3. Two parcels at Grandvaux "en Platrins des Verchieres", the first containing 5 fosseries, the other 3 fosseries: Jaques Bonard sold for 50 ecus to Guillaume Renaud (Claude des Granges, 02 jan 1555). After death of Renaud, Jaques Bonard granted rights to Jean Gachet and to Michée, daughter of Renaud (Estienne Richard, 03 oct 1567).
If this is correct, Guillaume was still alive in 1555, and Michée in 1567. It is not stated whether Michée or her heirs still had a claim on the third item in 1583.
These three parcels must have been in the estate of Denise Regnauld, for they are all treated the same way. Jean Gachet (not Jean Amey, because the latter died in 1573) has a 1/2 interest, the coheirs of Denise Regnauld have the other 1/2 interest. The interest of the coheirs of Denise Regnauld is split in equal portions among:
Further evidence that the Sr. de Bellevaux is not Jean Amey Gachet is provided in the records of Pierre Jan, notary at Payerne, where we find Noble Jean Gachet described as Sr. de Bellevaux on several occasions, such as 18 nov 1580 and 09 feb 1588, long after the death of Jean Amey Gachet (1573).
Jean Gachet could be the "Johannes Gatzerus ex Peterlingen diocesis Losanensis" who appears in the Matrikel of the University of Freibourg im Breisgau, 22 jan 1523, but we think the entry more likely applies to his elder brother Jean Amey. A number of other names from Vaud, Bern, and Fribourg (Switzerland) are recognizable in this Matrikel (1460-1656), provided one uses considerable imagination for the names that come from French-speaking areas. Certainly there is no other surname similar to Gatzerus in Payerne, and the period is about right for Jean to be attending a university. One could explain the spelling as an attempt to latinize a word heard as Gatché, with the assumption that it was one of those French names ending in -er, rather than one ending in -et, for the purposes of constructing an appropriate Latin nominative ending. As for the substitution of -tz- for -ch-, we may see here evidence of the local patois. French vache becomes vatsche or vatze in the patois of this region. Accoucher becomes akeutzi or acutchi. A large number of words that have -ch- in standard French are rendered as -tz-, -ts-, or -tsch- in the patois. These substitutions reflect prononciation, not a local standard for orthography. The treatment of -ch- in the patois is likely the reason that Gachet became Gatschet when it was transplanted to Bern, rather than the equivalent German spelling that would be expected if Gachet were pronounced in standard French, Gaschet. If the entry at Freiburg-im-Breiskau was for Jean Amey, perhaps Jean attended instead the University of Basel, where there is an entry in the Matrikel in 1536/37 for Joannes Gatzetus from Bern.
Computed from age at death, as noted in his brother Niklaus Gatschet's "Hussbüchli."
_Nicoletus GACHET ___+
| (1418 - 1468)
_François GACHET _________|
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474 |
| |_Mermette _____ _____
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| | _Nicod CHALON _______+
| | | (.... - 1479)
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________|
| m 1474 |
| |_Françoise CUEX _____+
|
|
|--Jean GACHET
| (1509 - 1591)
| ______ DE TORCULARI _
| |
| _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _|
| | (1460 - 1513) m 1480 |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
(.... - 1553) m 1503|
| _Pierre BOVET _______+
| | (.... - 1480)
|_Perronete BOVET _________|
(.... - 1513) m 1480 |
|_Amphilisia _____ ___
He may be the Jean Gachet of Payerne who married Anne de Trey.
_François GACHET _________+
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________+
| m 1474
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1581|
| | _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503|
| |_Perronete BOVET _________+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Jean GACHET
|
| __________________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |__________________________
| |
|_Catherine MAILLARD _|
(1542 - 1594) m 1581|
| __________________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|__________________________
He may have been the Jean Gachet who married Anne de Trey before 1609.
_Pierre GACHET _________+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Jean GACHET _________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540 |
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _______+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Josué GACHET __________|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1586 |
| | _Guillaume REGNAULD ____+
| | | (.... - 1559)
| |_Denise REGNAULD _____|
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540 |
| |_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS ___+
|
|
|--Jean GACHET
|
| _Petermann DE FAUCIGNY _
| | (.... - 1518)
| _Hansman DE FAUCIGNY _|
| | (.... - 1589) |
| | |_Louise MESTRAL ________+
| | (.... - 1571)
|_Elizabeth DE FAUCIGNY _|
m 1586 |
| _Claude FOLLIEZ ________
| | m 1589
|_Catherine FOLLIEZ ___|
|
|_Claude FIVAZ __________
m 1589
Unfortunately, the church records for Payerne seem to be missing a number of baptisms and marriages in the early 17th Century. We have found no mention of the parentage of this Jean Gachet. He seems to have died before 1640, and that might be sufficient to explain the apparent early marriage of his son David, who may have married Anne Comte before marrying Jeanne Dessibord. But there is still considerable uncertainty about this generation.
The only Jean Gachet of the right generation in the church records is the son of Josué Gachet and Elizabeth de Faucigny baptised 21 apr 1587. We might be able to prove this parentage if we could find a record of his marriage to Anne de Trey. Her father had died and her mother had remarried to Pierre Fivaz by the time she was married. Perhaps the marriage was recorded in some other parish, but we would have expected to find the marriage contract mentioned somewhere in the enormous collection of registers from the notaries of Payerne.
This Jean Gachet, or his wife Anne Detrey, made a "reconnaissance" for the terrier ACV Ff 166, fol. 187, not yet examined.
Isolated reference to the unnamed heirs of the late Jean Gachet appear in the records of various notaries about this time, but so far no significant facts have turned up. Definitely deceased by the time his son David married.
__
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1612) m 1604|
| |__
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| m 1624 |
| | __
| | |
| |_Eva OTTONIN ________|
| m 1604 |
| |__
|
|
|--Jean GACHET
|
| __
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |__
| |
|_Marie _____ ________|
m 1624 |
| __
| |
|_____________________|
|
|__
Petitpierre's Patrie Neuchateloise (1935) identifies this person as Jean Amey Gachet. However, the only Jean Amey Gachet we have found in notarial and other records at Payerne is the husband of Marguerie Vallier, not the grandson. We found no support for the existence of such a son of Jean Gachet and Denise Regnauld in the notarial records of Payerne. In particular, he is not mentioned in connection with certain vineyards from Denise's estate, still held jointly by her husband and her coheirs, 30 aug 1583 (Jean Ballif, notary at Payerne). Is it possible that Petitpierre found a document listing the coheirs by their first names, and assumed they were all siblings?
_François GACHET _________+
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET _______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503 |
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________+
| m 1474
_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540|
| | _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503 |
| |_Perronete BOVET _________+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Jean (?) GACHET
|
| _Guillaume REGNAULD ______
| | (1500 - 1556)
| _Guillaume REGNAULD __|
| | (.... - 1559) |
| | |_Jeanne DE BELLEVAUX _____+
| |
|_Denise REGNAULD ____|
(1520 - 1579) m 1540|
| _François DE GOUMOENS ____
| |
|_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS _|
|
|__________________________
Documents of Benoit Nible, notary at Payerne, clearly list Jean Amey as the "plus ainé frère" (most eldest brother) of François Gachet and his other brothers, and sister Catherine, all children of the late Pierre Gachet, secretaire de la ville de Payerne. The Dictionnaire Historique et Geographique gives official titles: Banderet 1544-1545, and Advoyer 1563-1573 (appointed to this last post 11 aug 1563, according to the family book of his brother Niklaus Gatschet). Information in theDictionnaire that the Bernese Gatschet family descends from Nicolas b. 1510, brother of Jean Amey, seemed doubtful because of the birthdate. The same source gives the death of Nicolas in Bern in 1606, so it is likely his age is given in the same record and that is the source of the birth date. However, Nicolas left a Familienbuch (or "Hussbüchli"), now at the Burgerbibliothek in Bern, which clearly indicates he was born in 1526 and lived until at least 1607. His dates are now consistent with the family records at Payerne, and the story of the family can now be reported with greater confidence.
The Dictionnaire notes the arms a golden sun on a blue ground, in a stained glass window at the parish church of Payerne, and the Livre d'Or puts the family's origins in Payerne in the 14th century. An early Pierre Gachet notary (placed in the Fribourg family of the same name) is cited as the Châtelain of the Tour de Trême in 1464 and 1472. The same Chatelainy was held by François Biolley in 1553, when the wife of the latter, Marguerite daughter of the late Noble Georges de Rive (with impressive titles including "gouverneur patrimonial du conté de Neufchastel") donates property to her "good neighbors and friends" François Gachet and his brothers (elsewhere identified as the children of the late Pierre Gachet). Thus, it is very likely that there are definite historical ties between the different Gachet families, even though the Fribourg branch has different arms (quartered, origin of the parts not identified). (Internet material from the archives of the canton of Fribourg notes the existence there of correspondence of Georges de Rive, Sr. de Prangins who died in 1552, and of his daughter Marguerite who married first Jean de St.-Germain and then François Biolley. Further, we learn that Georges de Rive was appointed governor of Neuchâtel in 1529 by Jeanne de Hochberg, comtesse de Neuchâtel, after a Bernese occupation 1512-1529, and that he was still in that capacity in 1530 when the reformed religion displaced Roman Catholicism there. It is possible the correspondence of Marguerite, covering the period 1557-1566, contains some explanation for the donation of property to the Gachet brothers of Payerne in 1553. One possibility is that it was in effect an exchange of property as a convenience in the consolidation of property she acquired in the settlement of her father's estate. Documents recorded by Benoit Nible at Payerne identify additional daughters Françoise and Jeanne de Rive, and note many parcels of land near Payerne. A more interesting possibility was suggested by the discovery that Jean de Rive, contemporary of Georges and probably a cousin, married as his second wife Antonia Falck, half-sister of Jaquaz Dutruict who was the mother of the Gachet brothers.)
In addition to the cited titles, we find Jean Amey as conseiller in 1551 and Secrétaire de la Ville de Payerne in 1556. His signature appears in a document of partition for the heirs of the late Georges de Rive in 1553, recorded by Benoit Nible. Much earlier titles include Secrétaire, 1539, at which date he should have been at least 25 years old. In records of Pierre Chuard, notary at Payerne, we find Johanni Admedeo Gachet identified as "secretarii et burgensii ville paternaiaci" as early as 1530, which suggests quite strongly that he is even a little older. He was the eldest of the seven sons, and thus likely born about 1504. The duties of secretary of the city council were not trivial, and we suppose that he probably attended a university. He may be the "Johannes Gatzerus" from Payerne who is noted on the Matrikel of the university at Freiburg-im-Breiskau in 1523, though that conclusion is uncertain.
A Jean Gachet, conseiller de Payerne, appears in various documents from 1572 to at least 1587. These cannot all refer to the same person as Jean Amey Gachet, since the latter was definitely dead by 1573, mentioned in various records of Jean Marcuard, notary at Payerne, and 1574, when this notary identifies the tuteurs of the the daughters of Jean Amey Gachet, assisted by Noble Sage et Vertueux Pierre Valliez Chatellain du Landeron, maternal uncle of these daughters. The problem of this Jean Gachet is important, as it raises the possibility of a skipped generation. A document of Jean Ballif, notary at Payerne, dated 30 aug 1583, concerns the inheritance of several vineyards. The situation seems to be that Noble Jean Gachet (still alive) was married to the late Denise Regnaut (whose sister was Michée), and whose son was Josué Gachet. The property was divided first in half, one half claimed by Jean Gachet, the other by coheirs of Denise, and of that second half, it is not clear exactly who has claim to it. Apparently Marguerite Morizet (wife of Jean Jacquier of Moudon), Jean Morizet, and Claude Gachet of Payerne have a claim (1/4th each?), and Jean Gachet has authority over the 1/4 owned by his son Josué, who should therefore be under age 25 at this date (Denise Regnault known to be alive as late as 1556). We believe the identification of Jean Amey with brothers François, Pettermand, and Daniel, and sisters Catherine and Jaquetta (cited in records of Benoit de Miéville, notary at Payerne, 1564), proves that the Jean Amey noted among the officers of Payerne is the son of Pierre, and not the son of a hypothetical Jean. However, the partage among the children of Pierre Gachet and Jaquaz du Truict, dated 28 may 1563 (Abraham Chuard, notary at Payerne, ACV DP 14/1), clearly identifies a Jean Gachet as the second son, after Jean Amey.
Our Jean Amey either bought or inherited vineyards near Cully, and there are several references to him in notarial records there at least as early as 1538.
The family book of Niklaus Gatschet, living at Bern, records the following, after noting that his brothers Anthony and Daniel had been married in Payerne on 15 dec 1560: "haben wir syben brüdern deo anpiliante unser zeitlich gut schier in dreien tagen mit einandern in der fründlichkeit getheilt" (entry dated 30 dec 1560, or possibly 20 dec 1560; the date 20 dec 1560 is also found in the notarial records).
In addition to the children documented here, the database of Norma Jean Elmer includes a daughter Françoise who married François Conte.
_Nicoletus GACHET ___+
| (1418 - 1468)
_François GACHET _________|
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474 |
| |_Mermette _____ _____
|
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| | _Nicod CHALON _______+
| | | (.... - 1479)
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________|
| m 1474 |
| |_Françoise CUEX _____+
|
|
|--Jean Amey GACHET
| (1504 - 1573)
| ______ DE TORCULARI _
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| _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _|
| | (1460 - 1513) m 1480 |
| | |_____________________
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|_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
(.... - 1553) m 1503|
| _Pierre BOVET _______+
| | (.... - 1480)
|_Perronete BOVET _________|
(.... - 1513) m 1480 |
|_Amphilisia _____ ___
The name Daniel is given only in 1725, when he appears as sponsor at a baptism in Payerne. His first mention in the church records at Payerne is in the same capacity, in 1717 (from which we estimate that he was probably born before 1702). So far, the only mention of his parentage is a document that calls him the son of "le Capitaine Gachet", which we take as a reference to Samuel Gachet.
Daniel Jaccaud, notary at Payerne (ACV DP 51/2), 31 jan 1722:
Abandonnation volontaire en faveur de Messieurs du Conseil de Vevey, Contre Mr. Jean Batiste Gachet.
Monsieur le Lieutenant et Conseiller De la fontaine de Vevey, agissant au nom de Messieurs du Conseil de Vevey, estant venu à Payerne pour procurer la Vendition par publication au plus offrant de la maison et jardin de Mr. Jean Batiste Gachet, en vertu des droits qu'il a en mains, ledit Mr. Gachet pour eviter ulterieurs frais a volontairement abandonné au prenommé Mr. de la fontaine au nom que dessus sadite maison d'habitation avec son jardin dernier, tout ainsi qu'il l'a eu de Mr. Le Capitaine Gachet son pere, pour tout ce qu'il peut devoir en principal, interets que depends de voyage, sous le benefice de les pouvoir recourir dans le terme porté par les loix, et au cas que Messieurs du Conseil de Vevey y veulent bailler les mains, ledit Monsieur Gachet consent que pour plus grande corroboration, l'homologation de presente abandonnation se fasse judicialement audit Payerne, sur le premier jour de droict requis, moyennant qu'en evitation de frais plus outre Messieurs du Conseil de Vevey chargent un particulier de ce lieu de la demander, à laquelle ledit Mr. Gachet a promis de ne se point opposer, et au cas que Messieurs de Vevey ne puissent bailler les mains, à la present abandonnation volontaire, ils resteront au benefice de leurs droits, suivant l'engagement dudit Sr. Gachet du 26 7bre dernier. Ainsi fait et passé à Payerne, en presence de messieurs Nicolas de Treytorens, Conseiller, & Samuel Givel, Chirurgien, tous deux bourgeois dudit Payerne, tesmoins, le 31e Janvr. 1722.
Exactly what circumstances occasioned this transaction has not been discovered, but it may be surmised that the Capitaine Gachet, or perhaps his wife or one of their ancestors, had borrowed money from the city of Vevey, for which this house was security, and had defaulted on the loan. Further particulars might be sought in the registers of the cour de justice of Payerne.
His missing marriage might be at Avenches, since his wife, as late as 16 may 1737 (Samuel Comte, notary at Payerne, ACV DP 21/26), was under the guardianship of the Chambre des Orphelins of that city. As of that date, her tuteur was the councillor Bonjour of Avenches, and it was noted that debts were owed to the Châtelain Peclat and also Mr. le Lieutenant Peclat.
_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
|
|--Jean Baptiste Daniel GACHET
| (1702 - 1762)
| _____________________
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| _____________________|
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|_____________________|
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|_____________________
Parentage given in a number of documents relating to sales of property, recorded by David Savary, notary at Payerne (ACV DP 93/1, fol. 154 etc., 1622), but his baptism is not recorded at Payerne.
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_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1612) m 1604|
| | __
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| |__|
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| |__
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|
|--Jean François GACHET
|
| __
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|_Eva OTTONIN ________|
m 1604 |
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_Pierre GACHET _________+
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503
_Jean GACHET _________|
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540 |
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT _______+
| (.... - 1553) m 1503
_Josué GACHET __________|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1586 |
| | _Guillaume REGNAULD ____+
| | | (.... - 1559)
| |_Denise REGNAULD _____|
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540 |
| |_Anteyne DE GOUMOENS ___+
|
|
|--Jean François GACHET
|
| _Petermann DE FAUCIGNY _
| | (.... - 1518)
| _Hansman DE FAUCIGNY _|
| | (.... - 1589) |
| | |_Louise MESTRAL ________+
| | (.... - 1571)
|_Elizabeth DE FAUCIGNY _|
m 1586 |
| _Claude FOLLIEZ ________
| | m 1589
|_Catherine FOLLIEZ ___|
|
|_Claude FIVAZ __________
m 1589
_Petermand GACHET ___+
| (.... - 1574)
_Claude GACHET ____________|
| (1549 - 1588) m 1580 |
| |_Antheyne MURISET ___+
| (1533 - 1573)
_Petermann (Pierre) GACHET _|
| m 1605 |
| | _Benoit NIBLE _______+
| | | (1522 - 1589) m 1550
| |_Françoise NIBLE __________|
| (1564 - ....) m 1580 |
| |_Benoitte du MOULIN _+
| (1530 - 1582) m 1550
|
|--Jean Pierre GACHET
|
| _____________________
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| _Samuel Pierre BANQUETTAZ _|
| | m 1590 |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Judith BANQUETTAZ _________|
m 1605 |
| _André FIVAZ ________
| | (.... - 1598)
|_Susanne FIVAZ ____________|
(.... - 1639) m 1590 |
|_Antheine CHUARD ____+
(1550 - 1591)
_____________________
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_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609|
| |_____________________
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_Abraham GACHET _____|
| (.... - 1667) m 1647|
| | _Abraham DE TREY ____+
| | | (1549 - 1596) m 1591
| |_Anne DE TREY _______|
| m 1609 |
| |_Anne JOCCET ________+
| (.... - 1601) m 1591
|
|--Jean Pierre GACHET
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| _André FIVAZ ________
| | (.... - 1598)
| _Pierre FIVAZ _______|
| | m 1602 |
| | |_Antheine CHUARD ____+
| | (1550 - 1591)
|_Elizabeth FIVAZ ____|
m 1647 |
| _Daniel RIBAUD ______
| |
|_Esther RIBAUD ______|
m 1602 |
|_____________________
_François GACHET _________+
| (1450 - 1522) m 1474
_Pierre GACHET ______|
| (1475 - 1528) m 1503|
| |_Jaqueta CHALON __________+
| m 1474
_Daniel GACHET ______|
| (.... - 1583) m 1560|
| | _Aimé (Aymonet) DUTRUICT _+
| | | (1460 - 1513) m 1480
| |_Jaquaz DUTRUICT ____|
| (.... - 1553) m 1503|
| |_Perronete BOVET _________+
| (.... - 1513) m 1480
|
|--Jeanne GACHET
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| _Philibert MESTRAL _______+
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| _Girard MESTRAL _____|
| | (.... - 1569) |
| | |_Jaqueta CORDEY __________+
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|_Magdelaine MESTRAL _|
m 1560 |
| _Pierre CROSTEL __________
| | (.... - 1573)
|_Perissone CROSTEL __|
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|_Guillauma SECHAULX ______
(.... - 1573)
_Petermand GACHET ___+
| (.... - 1574)
_Claude GACHET ____________|
| (1549 - 1588) m 1580 |
| |_Antheyne MURISET ___+
| (1533 - 1573)
_Petermann (Pierre) GACHET _|
| m 1605 |
| | _Benoit NIBLE _______+
| | | (1522 - 1589) m 1550
| |_Françoise NIBLE __________|
| (1564 - ....) m 1580 |
| |_Benoitte du MOULIN _+
| (1530 - 1582) m 1550
|
|--Jeanne GACHET
|
| _____________________
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| _Samuel Pierre BANQUETTAZ _|
| | m 1590 |
| | |_____________________
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|_Judith BANQUETTAZ _________|
m 1605 |
| _André FIVAZ ________
| | (.... - 1598)
|_Susanne FIVAZ ____________|
(.... - 1639) m 1590 |
|_Antheine CHUARD ____+
(1550 - 1591)
______________________
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| |______________________
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_Jean GACHET ________|
| (1591 - 1640) m 1609|
| | ______________________
| | |
| |_____________________|
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| |______________________
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|
|--Jeanne GACHET
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| _Jean DE TREY ________+
| | (1520 - 1579) m 1545
| _Abraham DE TREY ____|
| | (1549 - 1596) m 1591|
| | |_Jeanne D'ENGLISBERG _
| | m 1545
|_Anne DE TREY _______|
m 1609 |
| _Pierre JOCCET _______
| | (.... - 1591)
|_Anne JOCCET ________|
(.... - 1601) m 1591|
|_Anne GACHET _________+
(.... - 1584)
_Jean GACHET ________+
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540
_Josué GACHET _______|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1597|
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____+
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540
_Isaac GACHET _______|
| (1606 - 1640) |
| | _Nicod MORATEL ______+
| | | m 1569
| |_Jeanne MORATEL _____|
| (.... - 1628) m 1597|
| |_Claudine Du MONT ___+
| m 1569
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|--Jeanne GACHET
|
| _____________________
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| _____________________|
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|_Matthiaz QUILLET ___|
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| _____________________
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|_____________________|
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|_____________________
_Jean GACHET ________+
| (1509 - 1591) m 1540
_Josué GACHET _______|
| (1558 - 1621) m 1597|
| |_Denise REGNAULD ____+
| (1520 - 1579) m 1540
_Isaac GACHET _______|
| (1606 - 1640) m 1636|
| | _Nicod MORATEL ______+
| | | m 1569
| |_Jeanne MORATEL _____|
| (.... - 1628) m 1597|
| |_Claudine Du MONT ___+
| m 1569
|
|--Jeanne GACHET
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| _Pettermand PLANCHE _+
| | (1547 - 1588) m 1578
| _Pierre PLANCHE _____|
| | (.... - 1641) m 1601|
| | |_Jacobe GACHET ______+
| | (1540 - ....) m 1578
|_Judith PLANCHE _____|
(.... - 1650) m 1636|
| _François ROCHONNET _+
| | (.... - 1601) m 1571
|_Judith ROCHONNET ___|
m 1601 |
|_Pernon DUTOIT ______+
(1553 - ....) m 1571
_Roletus GACHET _____+
| (1391 - 1450)
_Bartholomeus GACHET _|
| (1464 - 1495) |
| |_Katherina _____ ____
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_Johannes GACHET ____|
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| | _____________________
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| |_Margareta _____ _____|
| |
| |_____________________
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|--Johannes GACHET
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| _____________________
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The terriers give conflicting parentage for the Johannes Gachet who settled at Le Landeron. In a long reconnaissance by the heirs of Bartholomeus Gachet, he is said to be a son of Bartholomeus (ACV Fl 460, fol. 23, 1526). However, in the next reconnaissance (fol. 44), made by his children Johannes and Johanneta Gachet, he is said to be instead the son of Johannes son of Roletus Gachet. In spite of the change in parentage, the property in which Johannes and Johanneta have a 1/8 interest, by legitimate paternal succession, was previously recognized by Bartholomeus Gachet.
When more of the terriers have been examined, it may be possible to supply enough dates to decide which parentage is the correct one.
_Nicoletus GACHET ___
| (1371 - 1416)
_Roletus GACHET _____|
| (1391 - 1450) |
| |_____________________
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_Bartholomeus GACHET _|
| (1464 - 1495) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Katherina _____ ____|
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| |_____________________
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|--Johannes GACHET
|
| _____________________
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| _____________________|
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|_Margareta _____ _____|
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|_____________________|
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|_____________________
The most ancient of the Gachet family at Payerne that we have been able to connect with later generations. He might have been the brother of a Nycoletus Gachet whose son was Rolet, subject in 1430 of a complicated dispute over inherited property at Villars-en-Vully (known today as Villars-le-Grand). The exact relationship between Rolet and the heirs of Johannes has not been determined. He may be the same Jean Gachet of Villars-en-Vully who witnessed a document dated 30 dec 1431 (AEF Vallon 3, regarding a bequest of Jaques Cosander alias de Sales), and if so, we would place his death sometime in 1432.
It is worth noting that the notarial records, so far as we have been able to discover, do not qualify the first several generations as "Noble." It is only when we reach the 16th Century that we find that designation, and then only to the descendants of Pierre Gachet and Jaquaz du Truict.
This observation leads us to question the story of the origins of the family advanced by Marcel Henchoz and Arnold Gachet (a descendant of the apparently unrelated family at Bioley-Orjulaz), who are named as authorities on the family in an issue of the Saaner Jahrbuch that discussed the literary and artistic output of Niklaus Gatschet (Ulrich Christian Haldi, Saaner Jahrbuch, 5:145-168, 1973).
The section that concerns us is framed as a question posed by Haldi, and answered by Henchoz and Gachet:
"Question: Quelles sont les origines de la famille de Nicolas Gachet, aquarelliste de qualité, dont les oeuvres sont malheuresement trop peu connues?
"Réponse: La famille noble Gachet ou Gatschet est originaire de Savoie, ce qui peut être prouvé diplomatiquement par d'anciens documents, tels que donations, fondations religieuses, contrats de mariage, où des nobles de cette famille de chevaliers et d'écclésiastiques honorés de charges à la Cour de leur maîtres, les anciens comtes et ducs de Savoie, paraissent dès le milieu du 12me siècle avec d'autres nobles personnages de ces temps comme témoins dans des actes publics de leurs anciens seigneurs et dans nombre d'autres de la noblesse de Savoie et du Pays de Vaud.
"Humbert Gachet, chevalier, vivait vers le milieu du 14me siècle et descendait sans aucun doute (la légalité du nom et des armoiries en sont des preuves incontestables) de Jean Gachet surnommé de Mont St-Jean, fondateur de la chapelle de St-Maurice à Chambéry en l'an 1136 et de Raoul Gachet, chevalier, qui se croisa en 1147 avec nombre de nobles et Savoie et du Pays de Vaud, pour accompagner son maître Humbert 1er, Comte de Savoie, à la Guerre Sainte.
"Humbert vivait dans sa maison ou château, situé au-dessus de Coppet dans le Pays de Vaud, qui était alors un fief noble relevant des Ducs de Savoie. Il porte encore aujourd'hui le nom de Gachet, quoique changé en simple rural. Outre cela, Humbert possédait plusieurs autres fiefs et terres nobles proches de Payerne, relevant des mêmes ducs de Savoie et comtes de Vaud, comme aussi de Monsieur l'Evêque de Lausanne, tels que Trey, Donneloye et Froideville. Son fils, aussi nommé Humbert, se domicilia à Payerne en 1389 et se maria avec Jeanne de Combremont. A l'occasion de ce mariage, Humbert reçut de son père pour dot la Terre de Trey et devint son héritier universel après sa mort survenue en 1396.
"Les descendants d'Humbert continuèrent à demeurer à Payerne et contractèrent des alliances avec la meilleure noblesse des environs. Ces alliances et la chapelle avec la tombe de famille dans l'église paroissiale de Payerne prouvent l'ancienneté de leur noblesse."
Unfortunately, we have not encountered a single mention of the nobility of the family before the 16th Century in the documents of the notaries, and not any mention of these noble fiefs that they should have held. If the ancient knights bore the same arms as Gachet of Payerne, that would be strong evidence for descent, but this is not what we find in Donald Galbreath's Armorial Vaudois, which may be the source of some of the information quoted above.
In fact, it seems that Henchoz and Gachet, or someone else they consulted, may have misread Galbreath, who says this about the Gachet of Payerne: "Famille bourgeoise de Payerne, citée en 1389 en la personne de Humbert Gachet, donzel. Jean-Amédée, avoyer de Payerne 1563-1573, possédait le fief de Bellevaux (Neuchâtel) et d'autres fiefs à Froideville près Payerne, Trey et Donneloye." Galbreath does not say that these are noble fiefs, nor that they were owned by the family prior to the time of Jean-Amey Gachet, and in fact, it is our reading that some of these properties were not particuarly large or significant, and that others came into the family as a result of marriages in the 16th Century. We might know more if the partage among Jean-Amey and his six brothers (1560) could be found — we have only an outline of the agreement, recorded by Abraham Chuard, notary at Payerne. The citation of Humbert Gachet as "donzel" in 1389 is the sole indication of nobility prior to the 16th Century that has come to our attention, and we have so far not discovered the source. The date of foundation of the private chapel in the parish church has likewise not been discovered, but we learned that the same chapel (being at that moment vacant, since the family had died out) became in 1818 the home for the modern funerary monument to Queen Berthe, whose famous but counterfiet donation was supposed to have established the adjacent abbey.
The argument for descent from knights of the Crusades thus depends on the identity of the arms for a family of the same surname. It has not been established that the Gachet of Payerne or any of the others from neighboring regions actually descend from the Gachet of Coppet, nor that the Humbert who resided there actually descends from the Crusaders. Stories such as these have been advanced for a number of families, but these stories have sometimes proved far less certain than they seemed.
Nevertheless, the manuscript armorial of Niklaus Gatschet (1736-1817) bears a striking illustration of a knight whose shield bears the Gachet arms. Did Niklaus believe this to be the origin of his own family? Apparently he did. The passages attributed to Marcel Henchoz and Arnold Gachet (op. cit.) indicate that Niklaus held this opinion, and that he had investigated the matter on the ground, in churches that are today destroyed or transformed, and collected citations of ancient documents. Henchoz and Gachet also reported that the most ancient document they could locate that placed the Gachet family at Payerne was among the parchments of the Priory of Payerne at the Archives Cantonales Vaudoises, dated 08 may 1368 or 1378, concerning a sale by Olivier Gachet, donzel, son of Pierre Gachet, donzel and bourgeois de Payerne.
Citations such as a document recorded on 10 apr 1432 by Nicod Mareschet, notary working in Vully (ACV DP 64/1, fol. 3), suggest that the present Johannes was a notary. The document refers to another transaction manu quondam Johannes Gacheti recepto (recorded by the late Johannes Gachet).
Emile Ritter states that a Hans Gatzchet of Willar owned vines at Le Landeron about 1408. This might be the same person, but see our discussion of Johannes Gachet son of Roletus, some of whose descendants also settled at Le Landeron. It seems likely that the family had holdings there over a very long period.
André Bardet, a native of the place, has published a volume entitled Villars en Vully, mon village: Six siècles de l'histoire d'une petite communauté rurale racontés par ses archives (Commune de Villars-le-Grand, 1983). He reports citations of a Pierre Gachet (1410), Rolet Gachet (1441), Aimon Gachet (1505), and that the Gachet family is mentioned as late as 1636. He does not appear to have investigated the records of the notaries or other records at the Archives Cantonales Vaudoises.
The origins of the family were also the subject of notes from the "von Mülinen genealogies", presently at the Burgerbibliothek in Bern (Gatschet Mss.Mül. 642.1, Gatschet N° 26, this collection attributed to Niklaus Friedrich von Muelinen, 1760-1833, with occasional supplements by Egbert Friedrich von Muelinen, 1817-1887, Eberhard von Muelinen, 1861-1924, and Prof. Wolfgang Friedrich von Muelinen, 1863-1917), of which we give a partial transcript by Therese Metzger:
"Ein altes zum Teil adeliges Geschlecht, welches im Jahr 1400 das Burgerrecht zu Avenches genoss, auch ansehnliche Besitzungen im benachbarten Wisselach [variant of the German name for Vully, Wistenlach], besonders zu Villar und Konstantier hatte. Von diesem Geschlecht hat sich ein Stamm nach Payerne begeben, daselbst eine Kappelle gestiftet, ist aber dort im 18. Jh ausgestorben, nachdem es [das Geschlecht] mehrere Jahrhunderte die ersten Magistraturen dieser Stadt bekleidete.
"Eine Linie dieses Stamms begab sich aber bald nach der Einnahme der Waadt durch die Berner, nach Bern und hat im Laufe drithalber Jahrhunderte diesem Freistaat viele verdiente Magistrat... gegeben.
"Diese Familie hat auch ihren Roman. Sie soll aus Savoyen ursprünglich sein, nachher zu Gachet bei Nyon ein festes Schloss ihres Namens erbaut haben, woselbst noch ein Dörfchen diesen Namen trägt.
"Gewiss ist, dass zu Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts und am Anfang des folgenden Jh. eine Familie Gachet bei Nyon lebte, freier Geburt, aber der Abtei Bonmont mit Dienst und Lehens Pflicht zugethan war.
"Ob aber die Gachet zu Avenches von diesen abstammten, wird schwerlich zu erweisen sein, ist aber gut möglich.
"Von der in Wisselach gebliebenen Linie hat sich eine Nebenlinie nach Ins begeben. Von dieser hat ... ein Arzt das Bürgerrecht zu Erlach erworben und ist daselbst 179? Schultheiss geworden.
"Es hat genügend Urkunden, die Stammlinie der Edlen Gachet zu Bern höher hinauf als Peter, den Vater des General Commissairs Niklaus auf eine gewisse weise hinaufzuführen, es sei dann das dieser Peter eben der Peter ist der 1464 Güter zu Villar, besass, in welchem Falle Niklaus der 1416 lebte, der erste urkundlich gewisse Stammvater des Geschlechts ist. "
Von Mülinen (this would have to be Niklaus Friedrich, 1760-1833) also reports seeing a family tree painted by the Landvogt Niklaus Gatschet, and Niklaus also showed him a paper from the Avoyer de Payerne attesting in 1557 to the parentage of Niklaus Gatschet, resident of Bern. This is probably the most authoritative account of the research of the Landvogt that we are likely to get, unless his papers, last known in the possession of Adèle Peyron-Gatschet, eventually come to light. The line of descent given from a Humbert Gachet of Payerne is as follows:
One piece of documentary evidence may be a fragment of the history of the Gachet family supposed originally to have lived at Coppet. A donation by Hugo Gachet of Orbe to the convent of Romainmôtier, the Thursday before the feast of St. Laurence 1287 (ACV, Registre-copies, Romainmôtier, Supplément, Tome I no. 5), reads as follows: "Ego Hugo dictus Gachet de Orba miles... Consideratis beneficiis que mihi fecerunt et impedunt prior et conventus Romani Monasterii concedo laude Nycholai filii mei eisdem, donatione inter vivos imperpetuum valitura, et pro remedio anime mee, quatuordecim cupas frumenti annui redditus, videlicet decem cupas super decimam de Hyens (=dîme d'Yens) et quatuor super decimam de Montagnie versus Yverdunum (=dîme de Montagny-le-Corbe)... In cujus rei testimonium, sigillum curie Lausann. apponi rogavimus et fecimus. Die Jovis ante festum beati Laurencii anno domini MCCLXXXVII." It is still a long way from this Hugo and his son Nicolas at Orbe to the Gachet family at Villars-le-Grand and Payerne.
He is mentioned in a series of transactions recorded by the notaries of Payerne regarding property at Villars-en-Vully in the first half of the 15th Century. He may be the same Johannes son of Roletus Gachet who is cited as a deceased citizen of Grandcour in the terrier ACV Fl 460 (1526, see fols. 24v and 44, where Stephanus Mathey of Grandcour is the husband of Johannete, daughter of Johannes Gachet bourgeois de Grandcour who was a son of Rolet Gachet of Villars-en-Vully). While it is certainly possible that other members of the Gachet family preceded him in Grandcour, this terrier seems to prove that the Gachet of Grandcour originated in Villars, as did the Gachet of Payerne.
Not only does the terrier Fl 460 list a number of relationships within the Gachet family of Villars, it also notes another branch: On fol. 26v, we find a Francesia Gachet daughter of the late Johannes Gachet of Le Landeron, son of the late Bartholomeus Gachet, son of the late Johannes Gachet, son of the late Rolet Gachet.
In spite of this, it appears that Bartholomeus either remained in or returned to Villars. By 1526, his extensive holdings had been divided, exchanged, or sold, and so were "recognized" for the purposes of the terrier Fl 460 by several different groups of people.
It is also possible that there were two men named Bartholomeus, uncle and nephew, but it seems more likely that one of the apparent genealogies of Bartholomeus is simply an error. For the moment, we are inclined to disbelieve the version inf Fl 460, which seems to have too many generations and which was compiled long after his death. The version in Fl 399, giving him brothers Johannes and Petrus, should be authoritative, as does its apparent predecessor Fl 398.
Johannes son of Roletus Gachet made a reconnaissance for the terrier Fl 398, property belonging to the church of St. Veran of Bellerive, in 1471. The next terrier for the church of St. Veran, Fl 399, dating from 1486, shows apparently the same property in the hands of Bartholomeus Gachet following the deaths of his brothers Johannes and Petrus.
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