DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland

Jean PLANCHE

(male)

TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: carnifex, masselarius
BIRTH: BEF 1500
DEATH: BEF 1591, Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland

Father: Gaspard PLANCHE (d. BEF 1525)
Mother: _____ GRISSOD (dates unknown)

Family 1 : Phillippa VUILLEMIN (b. BEF 1510, d. BEF 1591)

MARRIAGE: BEF 1527, Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland

+Benigna PLANCHE (b. BEF 1542, d. BEF 1591)
+Pettermand PLANCHE (b. BEF 1547, d. 1588)
+Marguerite PLANCHE (b. ABT 1550)
+Anne PLANCHE (dates unknown)

Jean and Phillippa Planche appear to be the parents of Pettermand Planche as well as Benigna Planche. The latter's marriage to Claude Ollevey is attested by notarial documents (recorded by Benoit Nyble), which also identify Benigna's son-in-law Georges Gorgeron as the guardian of the heirs of Pettermand Planche. Gorgeron was energetic in managing the estate; the surviving children became prominent in the government and social life of Payerne as soon as they reached adulthood. It is unlikely that that Gorgeron would have had this position if a closer relative had existed, and as there is no mention of Pettermand's wife Jacobe, it almost certainly means that she too had died about 1588. There is so far only one mention of the presumed daughter Marguerite, relating to her remarriage in 1590. The daughter Anne is identified in her marriage contract, but later records involving her husband Jacob Michiez seem not to provide any additional details.

Our Jean Planche appears to be the same Johannes Planchius, Planchiz, or Planchit with wife Phillippa Vuillomyn who appear in a document of Pierre Chuard in 1527. This Johannes is the son of the late Gaspardius, and Phillippa the daughter of the late Claudius Vuillomyn. That would put the birthdates of their children somewhere between the 1520's and the 1540's. One document appears to indicate Johannes' profession as "carniffici", often taken as a euphemism for executioner, but in this instance, as there are several men having this occupation at the same time in the records of Payerne, we believe it actually means butcher.

In several documents (1520's), Jean Planche is identified as a "universal heir" of the estate of the late Jean Grissod. That is, he inherited a full share of the estate, not merely a specific bequest. Grissod could be his uncle or grandfather, and this would probably mean that Gaspard Planche's wife was a Grissod. The most informative document found so far, dated 1532, has Jean ward of the late Jean Grissod making a settlement of the legacy to Jean Planche, and notes that the testament of Jean Grissod was recorded by Pierre Gachet.

Maxime Reymond's article "L'Abbaye de Payerne" (Revue historique vaudoise, 1912-1913) includes an incident in the fall of 1532 in which Jean Planche was accused of assaulting one of the monks of the Abbey, brother Claude Banquetaz. This occurred in the context of the political struggle between the Catholic and Protestant factions in Payerne, in which both Bern and Fribourg had inserted their influence on opposing sides. The Conseil de Payerne and the assembled populace supported Planche, and after several more years of conflict, the Reformation finally triumphed on 10 mar 1536, and a few months later, Jean Planche, credited with being one of the instigators of the Reformation at Payerne, took his seat on the Conseil.

The Archives de l'Etat de Fribourg has a document relating to this incident, AEF Payerne 54, summarized as follows: "Par acte du vendredi après la Purification de la sainte Vierge 1532 (02 jul 1533, by the modern calendar), Pierre Mistralis, donzel et avoyer de la ville de Payerne, prononça, comme charge ayant de Charles, duc de Savoie et à la réquisition des députés Antoine Pavilliard, chevalier et Peterman Gaudin, bourgeois et du conseil de Fribourg, comme protecteurs de l'église de Payerne, qu'il n'y avait pas lieu à suivre contre Jean Planchiz, bourgeois dudit Payerne accusé d'avoir blessé le frère Claude [Banquettaz] dans l'église paroissiale de ce lieu et l'absout de cette accusation." (Pierre Chuard, notary; witnesses noble Benedict de Molendino and noble Jean Coset le jeune, bourgeois de Payerne.) (Additional documentation of this affair is reported in Aimé-Louis Herminjard's Correspondance des réformateurs.)

This is apparently the same Discret Jehan de la Planche, bourgeois de Lustrier et de Payerne, who had owned property at Lutry circa 1540 that had since come into the posession of Anthoine Tillier of Bern in 1620 (ACV Ff 166 fol. 252v). The same property had been recognized even earlier (in a terrier compiled by Pierre Marchand) by Gaspard de la Planche. Property of Jean Planche that had previously been in the hands of Louis Vuillermyn (possibly the same family as the wife of Jean Planche) is mentiond in another terrier Ff 112, fol. 720, 16 feb 1586.

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                       ______ PLANCHE _____________|
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                      |                                                  
 _Gaspard PLANCHE ____|
| (.... - 1525) m 1500|
|                     |                             _____________________
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|                     |____________________________|
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|                                                  |_____________________
|                                                                        
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|--Jean PLANCHE 
|  (1500 - 1591)
|                                                   _Pierre GRISSOD _____+
|                                                  |                     
|                      _Jean GRISSOD ______________|
|                     | (.... - 1517) m 1467       |
|                     |                            |_____________________
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|______ GRISSOD ______|
   m 1500             |
                      |                             _Jaquetus DEGRANGES _+
                      |                            | (.... - 1466)       
                      |_Alixa (Alixone) DEGRANGES _|
                         m 1467                    |
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DUTOIT: A Family from Moudon, Switzerland

Jean PLANCHE

Jean PLANCHE

Judith PLANCHE

Magdelaine PLANCHE

Marguerite PLANCHE

Marguerite PLANCHE

Marguerite PLANCHE

Marguerite PLANCHE

Martin PLANCHE

Petermand PLANCHE

Pettermand PLANCHE

Pierre PLANCHE

Samuel PLANCHE

Susanne PLANCHE

Pierre PLANCHET

Adrienne PLATTNER

Andrew Todd PLATTNER

Justin PLATTNER

Gabrielle Marie PLOWDEN

Gale Anne PLUGGE

Edward Terry PLUMMER

Edward Williams PLUMMER

Margaret Faye PLUMMER

Marjorie Lee PLUMMER

Michael Duane PLUMMER