Gaspard Colet Derapelje (abt. 1505 - abt. 1577)

Born about 1505 in Chalillion-Sur Loire, France

Descendants

Died about 1577 at about age 72 in Valenciennes, Comté de Hainaut, Pays-Bas espagnols

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Biography

Name

Name: Gaspard Colet /Derapelje/

Given Name: Gaspard Colet

Surname: Derapelje^[1][2][3][4]

Gaspard Rapalie ... ^[5]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1505

Place: Chalillion-Sur Loire, France^[6][7][8][9]

Birth:

Place: Holland^[10][11]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S2: Text: Date of Import: Jan 30, 1999
2. ↑ Source: #S6: Text: Date of Import: Jan 31, 1999
3. ↑ Source: #S4: Text: Date of Import: Dec 18, 1999
4. ↑ Source: #S35: Text: Date of Import: Jan 7, 2000
5. ↑ Entered by William Osborne, Mar 3, 2013
6. ↑ Source: #S2: Text: Date of Import: Jan 30, 1999
7. ↑ Source: #S6: Text: Date of Import: Jan 31, 1999
8. ↑ Source: #S4: Text: Date of Import: Dec 18, 1999
9. ↑ Source: #S35: Text: Date of Import: Jan 7, 2000
10. ↑ Source: #S47 Page: 3
11. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: 296

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• Source S35: Abbreviation: fegely30474.ftw: Title: fegely30474.ftw: Repository: #R8: Italicized: Y: Paranthetical: Y: Repository R8

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• Source: S2 Title: Ancestral Lines Guilford S. Tingley Abbreviation: Ancestral Lines Guilford S. Tingley

• Source: S47 Title: Robinson Family History, Bklyn Standard Union, 1907 Abbreviation: Robinson Family History, Bklyn Standard Union, 190 Repository: #R2 Repository: R2 Name: C.F.Ullrich's Family Genealogy File

Research Notes

The following is from the 
American Families of Historic Lineage, Long Island Edition
Editorial Supervision of William S. Pelletreau & John Howard Brown.
Volume II, New York

The Rapelje family in the Old World, the Coligny family of France, was next to the families Montmorency, Rohun, Leval, and the semi-royal house of Lorraine, the most important in the line of French heraldry, The ancestry of the family has been traced back to the first duke of Burgundy of the sixteenth century, and at that period had been a great house for more than four hundred years.

In 1120 they founded the Abbey of Le Mirerir, and in 1202 the abbeys Montmerle and Grillon. Humbert de Coligny is reputed to have followed Conrad III in the several crusades, but this has not been definitely established. In the department of Ain, on the line from Lyons to Strasburg, about fifty miles from Geneva to the west and twenty-five miles to the north of Main, is the small village of Coligny, the origin of the family name.

One hundred years before the birth of the celebrated Admiral Coligny, the martyr who was put to death by order of Queen Catherine of Navarre, and became one of the numerous victims of the massacre of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, the family of Coligny removed to Chatillon-sur-Loing, from which latter place his titles, Gaspard di Coligny, Marquis de Chatillon, Admiral of France, Colonel of the French Infantry, Governor of Picardy, Isle de France, Paris and Havre was derived.

The Admiral's father had enjoyed the high favor of Francis I and held the position of Marshal of France, governor of Picardy, Lieutenant of the Principality of Orange and the county of Guienne. His son, the Admiral, received in 1577, collar of the order and the command of the French infantry. He opposed the English troops at Boulogne and negotiated the treaty which restored the city to the French in 1550. In 1557 he commanded the infantry in the campaign of Lorraine, helped in the capture of Metz, siege of Verdun, and in the sieges of Rodermark, Damvilliers, Ivry and Montmedy was a conspicuous chieftain, and under the Duke of Vendome he carried by assault Hesden and Seronaune in Picardy. He incurred the animosity of Catherine of Narvarre by espousing the Protestant cause, and was assassinated August 24; 1572.

Of this family, Gaspard Colet de Rapellea, nephew of the Admiral, was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing, in1505. He was a staunch Protestant, and after suffering beyond endurance he fled to the forests -of the Ardennes, and under the protection of the kingdom of the Netherlands found refuge from further persecutions.

He there married a daughter of Victor Antoine Jansen, of Antwerp, and he named his three children in the order of their births-(I) Gaspard Coligny, after his uncle and himself; (2) Gaspard Colet, thus preserving the family name; and (3) a daughter Brickje, who married her cousin, Victor Honorus Jansen, and their son Abraham Jansen became an historical painter and married the daughter of Hans Loedwick, of Amsterdam, and by this marriage we have William, Joris and Antoine Jansen de Rapella These three brothers all came to the New Netherlands, William and Joris sailing from Rochelle, in France, in 1623 and locating at Fort Orange, Rensselaerwick, followed in 1631 by Antoine, who preserved the true family name of Jansen, and was the founder of that branch of the family in America. William died unmarried.

Joris Jansen de Rapelje, the Walloon, came from the Gallo-Romance stock; this race includes the old Gallic-Belgian, intermingled with Teuton blood. The Walloons in the forests of Ardennes resisted the barbarous onslaught of the Germans, mixed themselves with the Roman element, and their language became romanized to such an extent as to become a French dialect. While akin to their Galli-Roman neighbors in France and using the French language in conversation and in literature, they have peculiar and distinctive traits which combined patience, perseverance and industry with excitability and a disposition to passion. The separation of Belgium from Holland was largely the work of the Walloons, and they constituted the leading element in Belgium statesmanship and advancements in the arts and sciences. It was largely from this stock that the early settlements in Rensselaerwick, New York, Long Island and Westchester were drawn.

I. JORIS (GEORGE) JANSEN RAPELJE and his wife Catalyntje, daughter of Joris Trico, of Paris, France, came to New Netherlands about 1632, proceeding up the Hudson river to Rensselaerwick in the ship "Unity," in which they had crossed the Atlantic from Holland. Catalyntje Trico Rapelje was born probably in Holland, in 1605 in which kingdom her parents had taken refuge from the persecutions of the Papal authorities of France. The time of her birth is fixed by her own testimony when on October 17, 1688, she stated her age to be 83 years, and that she came in the ship "Unity" in 1623 landing in Rensselaerwick, Fort Orange, and in 1626 removing to New Amsterdam Their daughter Sarah was born at Fort Orange, June 7, 1625, and their youngest child, Daniel, was born in New Amsterdam, December 29, 1650.

• He was made a colonel of the French army on December 22, 1545. He became a Protestant. When the king in 1548 began to enforce edicts issued against Protestants, Gaspard fled to Holland.

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

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