He was a very successful Merchant and Businessman in Belgium, and on arriving in South Africa started a Wine Farm called De Savoye Farm. Today known as Vrede & Lust Wine Farms in Franchhoek, and owned by the Buys Family.

"In March 1712 he left for the Netherlands in the Samson, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law. He enrolled as a member of the Walloon congregation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 16th December 1714, but only four months later, on 20th April 1715, it was reported that he had returned to the Cape. There is, however no documentary proof of his presence neither at the Cape neither after 1715, nor in C.G. Botha's assertion that he died in October 1717. "

From Juna Malherbe

"Beste Loffie, M Boucher het van die inligting, oor die ouers van Jacques de Savoye, uit die SA Biografiese Woordeboekgebruik gemaak vir sy boek French Speakers at the Cape: the European background.

Ek het in 1993 van 'n genealoog in België se dienste gebruik gemaak wat deur die Katolieke Doopregister 1582 - 1796; die Katolieke Huweliksregister 1616 - 1796 van Ath, België asook deur die "Civil Records" van Ath 1582 - 1795 en 1652 - 1674 gewerk het.

• Jacques de Savoye is op 29 Januarie 1636 gedoop en nie gebore nie.
• Hy was die tweede kind van Julien de Savoye, gedoop Ath 26 Oktober 1602 en Jeanne Dureau/Durieau
• Julien de Savoye was die sesde kind van Jacques de Savoye en Jeanne van der Zee/da la Mere.
• Jeanne Dureau was 'n dogter van Jacques Dureau/Durieau en Marie Ghersouille.

Ek weet nie of die De Savoyes Rooms Katolieke of Protestante was nie. Jacques de Savoye was 'n Protestant toe hy en sy gesin hulle aan die Kaap kom vestig het. Hy was een van die afvaardiging van 5 Hugenote wat op28 November 1689 onder leiding van Pierre Simond vir goewerneur Simon van der Stel beosek het om 'n eie gemeente en kerkraad vir die Hugenote te versoek.

Vriendelike groete Juna Malherbe Franschhoek"

de Savoye Family Progenitor Details from project

a. Jacques de Savoye b. before 29 January 1636, d. October 1717

m 4/7/1657 Christine du Pont b. c 1640, d. b 1686

b1. Jeanne de Savoye b. b 1667
b2.Catherine de Savoye (b 21 September 1663 - ) requires validation
b3. [Agatha Therese de Savoye] baptised 7/1/1667 requires validation (presently merged into Marguerite)
b4.Jacques de Savoye b. Jun 1669
b.5.Julienne-Louise de Savoye b. 16 May 1671, d. May 1671
b.6.Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye b. b 4 Sep 1672, d. Mar 1742
b7. Barbe-Thérèse de Savoye b. b 20 May 1674
b8. Chrétien de Savoye b. 27 Jun 1676, d. b 30 Sep 1676
b9. Susanne de Savoye b. 27 Jan 1678
m 1686 Marie-Madeleine le Clercq b. c 1670, d. 1721

b10. Jacques de Savoye b.b 12 Apr 1687
b11.Jacquette de Savoye b.b 12 Apr 1687 possibly twin of Jacques. Possibly died young as not on emigration boat in 1688
b12.Aletta de Savoye b. b 17 Jul 1689
b13.Philippe Rudolf de Savoye b. b 29 Aug 1694

Resources

• http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5156.htm
• M. Boucher. French Speakers at the Cape in the first hundred years of Dutch East India Company rule: The European background. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1981.pp. 264-269.
• Pieter Coertzen, The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988 (28 Wale Street, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, 1988)

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Cape Muster Roll 1695

http://www.eggsa.org/sarecords/index.php/muster-rolls/cape-archives...

Page 147

Christoffel Snijman & Margrita de Savoye 4 k.

Page 148

Jacobus Savoije & Maria Magdalena Clerck 4 k.

Cape Muster Roll of 1702 ... compiled on 23 January 1702, Cape Archives VC 49s

Page 7

Christoffel Snijman & Margarita de Savoije 8 k.

Page 12

Christiaan Eijlers & Barbara de Savoije 2 k.

Page 16

Jagus de Savoye & Maria Magdalena de Clercq 3 k.

http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy/g5/p5156.htm

French Huguenot immigrants to SA in 1688 on the ship 'Oosterlandt':

• Jacques de Savoye xx Marie-Madeleine le Clercq
• Antoinette Carnoy - mother of Marie-Madeleine
• Marguerite-Thérèse de Savoye - 17 yr old daughter of Jacques & Christine
• Barbe-Thérèse de Savoye - 15 yr old daughter of Jacques & Christine
• Jacques de Savoye - 9 mnth old son of Jacques & Marie-Madeleine

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Namen van de fransche gereformeerde vluchtelinge toe gestaen op het reglement en Eedt als vrije luijde te vertrecken naer de Cabo de bonne Esperance met het schip Oosterlant :

• Jacques de Savoije van Aeth
• Maria Magdalena le Clerck van tournay syn huijsvrouw
• Anthonette Carnoij van tournay : de schoonmoeder van Jacques d'Savoije.
• Margo out 17 jaren
• barbere out 15 jaren } Alle kinderen van Jaecques de Savoije
• Jacques out 9 maenden

   ...

En hebbe alle dese voorenstaende mans persoonen gedaen den Eedt in hande van de heer galernis tresel als schepe binnen deser stadt Middelb. op de 8 Januar : Ao 1688.

- Botha, C Graham: The French Refugees at the Cape, 2nd Ed 1921

The colonist referred to is the former merchant Jacques de Savoye who, with his second wife Marie-Madeleine le Clercq, his mother-in-law Antoinette Carnoy, his children Marguerite-Thereseand Barbe-Therese by his first marriage and a baby Jacques, reached the Cape in 1688 aboard the Oosterland. Savoye was sent out with a warm encomium from the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company as a staunch Calvinist who had suffered for his beliefs. Jacques de Savoye was born at Ath in Hainaut in 1636, the son of a father of the same name and his wife Jeanne van der Zee.

Not therefore a Frenchman by birth, but a native of the Spanish Netherlands, he came of a family which perhaps had its roots in the Cambresis, where the name was known in the sixteenth century. Savoye evidently prospered in Ath, where he lived for many years. When he left the town he possessed houses, land and investments there, the management of which he placed in the hands of a fellow-merchant Jean Henrichant. It was probably at Ath that he married his first wife Christine du Pont, whose family came from that town. Savoye was accompanied to the Cape by the Nourtiers of the Calaisis as his servants. Was there also a family connection through Christine du Pont?

From Ath, Jacques de Savoye moved to Ghent and it seems likely that, in company with many others from the small towns and villages of the Spanish Netherlands, he took refuge in the city from Turenne’s advancing troops in 1667, when the War of Devolution secured for France a number of towns beyond the border, Ath, Courtrai, Tournai and Oude- narde among them. A daughter Jeanne would seem to have been born to the Savoyes before they settled in the Flemish city and her marriage to Andre du Pont further cemented the alliance between these families.

Savoye remained in Ghent until at least the end of 1685. From neither a social nor an economic point of view was this an easy period for a Calvinist merchant. The days of the Protestant ascendancy in the city were long past and the religious orders of the Catholic church were flourishing. The closure of the Scheldt estuary, French incursions into the southern Netherlands and the occupation of Ghent itself did nothing to stimulate business. Some expansion had taken place in the linen industry and certain luxury trades had been established, but the economic situation in the seventeenth century was precarious and Ghent as a commercial centre had declined greatly since medieval times.

Although the Calvinists of Ghent were compelled to make use of Catholic churches for baptisms, marriages and interments, the reformed church “recueillie sous Id croix” and watched over by the Dutch church authorities was by no means moribund. Its itinerant pastors preached regularly and administered communion whenever the opportunity presented itself. Savoye was known to one of them, Francois Simon, evidently of a Rouen family, who considered the Ghent merchant a devout worshipper and a man of courage who did not hesitate to allow his house to be used for Calvinist services. From other Ghent sources - the merchant Martin de Lecourt, the consul Christiaan Craye-nest and a friend Jacques des Obry (De Zobry, perhaps) - it is evident that Savoye’s zealous defence of his beliefs earned him the hostility of the Catholics and particularly of the Jesuits among them. According to Crayenest and Des Obry the virulence of the persecution he endured made him even fear for his life.

These testimonials to his religious fervour were produced at the time of his quarrel with Simond and went hand in hand with favourable comment on his business probity. However, it was rumoured at the Cape that Savoye had become insolvent in Ghent. This was a matter for church censure and the former merchant was called upon to vindicate himself, an invitation he ignored. Was there in fact any truth in the allegation? It is evident that Savoye worked with his son-in-law Andre du Pont in the linen trade and although Lecourt does not associate the Cape emigrant with Du Pont’s business affairs, he notes that Savoye’s departure from Ghent coincided with his son-in-law’s insolvency. Du Pont moved to Leyden with his wife, became a successful bookseller there and died in 1699.

The case of Jacobus Pape and others against Jacques de Savoye in 1709 would suggest that the Cape settler was not in partnership with Andre du Pont and was not responsible for payment of a bill presented by Pape’s father-in-law Zacharias Pede for linen delivered to Ghent in June and July 1686. For this view we have only Savoye’s word, however, and an earlier case puts a different interpretation on his business relationships witih his son-in-law. On April 12, 1701 an Amsterdam merchant Jasper Pallet sought to recover a debt incurred by Savoye and Du Pont, who were named together on the relevant bill of exchange and had accepted liability. Pallet used the assistant mate Barend Kragt of the Berckenrode as an intermediary in his dealings with Savoye and it is interesting in the history of Huguenot commerce at the Cape to find him years later buying hides from the refugee Durand Soullier to made a stout pair of trousers suitable for a seaman. On the available evidence it would appear that the rumours of financial difficulties surrounding Savoye’s name were not without foundation.

The names of several of the children of Jacques de Savoye and Christine du Pont appear in the registers of Sint-Jacobs, the parish church for the densely populated district surrounding Ghent’s Vrijdag- markt, where in 1340 Edward III of England had been proclaimed king of France.

A son Jacques was baptized in June 1669 and a daughter Julienne-Louise on May 16, 1671. Julienne died shortly after her christening at the age of two weeks. Both the children of this marriage who settled at the Cape were born in Ghent. Marguerite-Theresewas christened on September 4, 1672 and Barbe-Therese on May 20, 1674. Two years later, on June 27, 1676, a son Chretien was baptized, but he did not survive infancy and was buried on September 30 of the same year. Finally, the baptism of a daughter Susanne took place on January 27, 1678. The name Savoye also appears in the marriage records of the cathedral of Sint-Baaf in Ghent. In August 1682 Marie-Anne de Savoye was married there to Jacques du Pre.

After leaving Ghent Jacques de Savoye settled at Sas van Gent across the Dutch border, where he spent most of 1686 and part of 1687. He gave as his reason for moving there the intensity of the religious persecution against him. The Sas lay at the end of the canal which marked Ghent’s early attempt to gain an outlet to the Scheldt. Du Ponts were already established there, for a Louis du Pont moved from Sas van Gent to Leyden in October 1683.

Savoye’s first wife had died by 1686 and it is possible that he met his second wife at the Sas. Marie-Madeleine le Clercq of Tournai was the daughter of Philippe le Clercq and Antoinette Carnoy. Her mother, then a widow, became a member of the Walloon church in Amsterdam on May 5, 1686. She does not appear to have been in easy circumstances as she was provided with help in kind from the relief funds of the church on December 11, 1686, receiving a camisole, the gift of Philippe de la Fontaine. It is interesting to note that the merchant Jean Bourla, with whom Antoinette Carnoy had business dealings in 1698 while resident at the Cape, was secretary of the Amsterdam church consistory. He too was from the southern Netherlands. Alexandre le Clercq, a merchant, who was certainly a member of this family and perhaps Marie-Madeleine’s brother, also took refuge in Amsterdam. He married Elisabeth Gilles there in 1710 and in the same year settled in Halle-an-der-Saale in Saxony. There, between 1711 and 1716, Philippe-Alexandre , Marie-Elisabeth and Anne le Clercq were born, the son, and daughter Anne, dying in early childhood.

From Sas van Gent Jacques de Savoye went to Middelburg, where his wife gave birth to a son Jacques and, it would seem, to a daughter Jacquette, baptized on April 12, 1687. It was from the Zeeland capital, after a public sale of household goods, that Jacques and his family left for the Cape of Good Hope. Two points remain to be discussed in this sketch of Jacques de Savoye’s European background. The first is that the Simonds cannot have been unacquainted with the Savoyes before they reached the Cape and probably knew something of Jacques’s earlier life in Flanders and Hai-naut. Not only had Anne de Berault spent some time in Middelburg, but Pierre Simond was also on friendly terms with Pierre de Joncourt, the former pastor of Clermont in the Beauvaisis who had been called to Middelburg in October 1677. Joncourt regarded Savoye as a man of fiery temper, quick to take offence.147 The Simonds may also have been acquainted with the Le Clercqs and in that connection it is interesting to note that a Madeleine le Clercq was received as a member of the Leyden church with attestation from Zierikzee at Easter 1688.

The second point concerns the link between Leyden and the Du Pont and Savoye families. At the time that Jacques de Savoye moved from Ghent to the Sas, both families had a long association with the Dutch university city and Jacques’s connection with Leyden was a particularly close one. He was to declare at a later date that his son-in-law settled in the city about the year 1690, but the names of Andre du Pont and Jeanne de Savoye appear as signatures at a baptismal ceremony there as early as August 5, 1685. They were not then necessarily permanent residents, however. A further link concerns Jacques’s brother Jean de Savoye who, like Jacques, was born in Ath and married a Du Pont. The baptism attended by Andre du Pont and his wife in 1685 was that of Jean, son of Jean de Savoye and Julienne du Pont, born that same day. Jean de Savoye had married Julienne at Leyden on September 12,1681. At that time he was a joiner and living on the Langegracht in the city. His wife, also from Ath, was a daughter of Benoist du Pont and Jeanne Due, who lived in the Paardesteeg. Their son Jean died in infancy, but at least two of their daughters reached marriageable age: Jeanne, born on August 19, 1682, and Marie, born on March 14, 1688. Their father died on January 5, 1692, when the family lived in Leyden’s Donkersteeg. It is worthy of note, in the context of Jacques de Savoye’s financial problems, that the Cape settler owed his brother money at the time of the latter’s death. Julienne du Pont clearly left Ath as a child to settle in Leyden with her parents, to whom several other children were born between 1657 and 1667. The surname Du Pont is, in fact, to be found in local records as early as 1600. That the Savoyes were at least visitors to Leyden before 1670 may be inferred from the fact that Jacques de Savoye, probably the Cape settler, was a witness at the baptism of Benoist’s son Jean on September 3, 1664 and Jean de Savoye at that of Benoist’s daughter Abigail on January 9, 1667. Interesting too, in the light of Jacques de Savoye's marriage into the Le Clercq family is the choice of Jeanne Carnoy as godmother to Benoist du Pont’s son Denis on March 9, 1661.

Why then did Jacques de Savoye not settle in Leyden after he left Ghent? It is true that the employment situation in the United Provinces was difficult at a time when thousands of French-speaking refugees were flooding across the frontiers, but there he would have found a wide circle of friends and relatives to help him establish himself. The prospect of life in a distant settlement controlled by a company jealous of its trading privileges can scarcely have fired the merchant class among Calvinist refugees with enthusiasm. Nor is there anything in Savoye’s earlier career to suggest that agricultural pursuits would attract him. On the other hand, although the prospect of ploughing, planting, building and raising livestock in an unknown land may have caused him some misgivings, especially as he was no longer a young man, he may have seen the end product of a fine farm as a rural paradise in which to spend his last days. That at least was the burden of the letter of recommendation concerning him sent out from Rotterdam. There is also, however, the evidence of financial difficulties and it was perhaps these which played a major part in his decision to begin a new life in a new sphere far from Europe

• Boucher.M (1981). French speakers at the Cape: The European Background. Pretoria, UNISA. CHAPTER NINE Cape settlers V: from Flanders to Alsace on the turbulent frontier pp265-9

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http://www.stamouers.com/desavoye.htm

Jacques de SAVOYE (Savoije) gebore 1636, Aeth, Hainaut (Vlaandere). Hy trou 4 Julie 1657 met Christine du PONT, sy was van Ath. Hy trou die tweede maal in 1686 met Marie Madeleine de KLERK (le CLERCQ) sy was van Doornik. Jacques sterwe Oktober 1717. Hy word ook beskryf as 'n oortuigde Calvinis, wat baie vir sy geloof gely het. Blykbaar het sy ywer vir die Protestantse geloof tot gevolg gehad dat hy deur die Jesuïete vervolg is, en daar is selfs sprake van 'n moordkomplot teen hom. Trek van Gent na Sas van Gent in 1686.

Daarna trek hulle na Middelburg. Vertrek op 29 Jan 1688 met die Oosterlandt na die Kaap. Saam met Jacques was sy tweede vrou Marie Madeleine de KLERK (le CLERQ), twee van sy dogters uit sy eerste huwelik, Margaretha 17 jaar en Barbe-Therese 15 jaar, baba Jacques 9 maande en skoonma Antonette Carnoy. Hy bring ook die 3 Nourtier-broers saam as sy knegte. Hulle arriveer op 25 April 1688.

In die Kaap kry hy die plaas Vrede-en-Lust in Drakenstein. Hy was 'n slawe-eienaar, heemraad en selfs Kaptein van die Drakenstein-militia. Ouderling in die kerk.

Jacques se geldsake wou steeds nie vlot verloop nie. Hy was in die skuld by die V.O.C. en ander, o.a. dominee Pierre Simond en was bekend daarvoor dat hy "traag was om rekeninge flink te vereffen". Desnieteenstaande beskryf ds. François Simond van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Flaandere hom as 'n eerlike man met baie ywer vir sy geloof, en verklaar "sy lewe is 'n waardige voorbeeld van reinheid en heiligheid in soverre dit moontlik was in die plek waar hy hom bevind het, waar afgodery hoogty gevier het." Ook goewerneur Van der Stel skryf in 'n brief aan die Kamer van Delft oor hom: "Jacques de Savoye en sy gesin is 'n voorbeeld van ywer vir al die vlugtelinge en uitgewekenes, en dat hy as Heemraad aangewys is n.a.v. sy vaardighede."

Interesant genoeg was hy later aktief in die Vryburgers se stryd teen goewerneur W.A. van der Stel, en is vir 'n tydperk in die Kasteel toegesluit. Hy word beskryf as 'n opvlieënde man, wat maklik aanstoot geneem het. Hy verhuis met sy vrou en haar ma terug na Nederland in 1712 as afslagtarief-dekpassassiers op die Samson.

Hy laat in die Kaap 3 getroude dogters en een seun, waarskynlik Philippe Rudolph, agter. Lg. het sonder erfgenaam gesterf. Dit is bekend dat Jacques by die Walloonse kerk in Amsterdam aangesluit het in 1714. Tog keer hy weer terug na die Kaap in 1716. Daar sterf hy op die rype ouderdom van 81 en is begrawe in Oktober 1717. Christine du Pont sterf 1686. Sy het 5 kinders gehad.

Die tweede vrou Le Clercq sterwe c1721

KINDERS

• b1 Jeanne * Ath c.1667 x Andre DU PONT
• b2 Jacques gedoop Gent Jun 1667
• b3 Julienne-Louise *Gent 16 Mei 1671
• b4 Marguerite-Therese *Gent 4 Sept 1672, x Christoffel SNYMAN, xx Henning VILJOEN.
• b5 Barbe-Therese * Gent 20 Mei 1674, x Christian EILERS, xx Elias KINA.
• b6 Chretien *Gent 27 Jun 1676
• b7 Suzanne *Gent 27 Jan 1678
• Tweede Huwelik
• b8 Jacues gedoop Middelburg 12 April 168
• b9 Aletta ~ Kaapstad 17 Jul 1689 x Pierre Meyer
• b10 Philippe-Rudolphe ~Drak 28 Aug 1694, + c1741, ongetroud, amptenaar VOC

Sterfdatums van kinders Julienne Louise + Gent Mei 1671, twee weke oud en Chretien # Gent 30 Sept 1676. Bron Boucher " French speakers at the Cape" pp. 265-267. Hy gee die doopname volgens Franse spelwyse uit registers van die St. Jacobs-kerk in Gent. Sien ook "Hugenotebloed in ons Are" pp. 19 & 20.

SAG 11 p 505 SNYMAN, Christoffel SNYMAN x MT DE SAVOYE,... uit Gent (ipv Aeth), d.v. J. DE S. en Christine DU PONT v Ath.

Bronne:

Saamgestel deur: Ekstra inligting van Jean le Roux

From http://www.genealogyworld.net/ellen/NotesonHuguenotFamilies.htm

"DE SAVOYE; Jacques, of Ath; Marie Madeleine LE CLERC, his wife, of Tournay; and their three children:--Margot (or Marguerite), 17 years old, Barbere, 15 years, and Jacques, 9 months old, together with Antoinette CARNOY, DE SAVOYE’S mother-in-law, sailed in the Oosterland from Middelburg on 29th Jan. 1688. In a despatch from the Chamber of Rotterdam dated 24th Dec. 1687, special mention is made of Jacques DE SAVOYE in the following terms:--

‘By this opportunity there will proceed to the Cape to settle there as a Colonist one Jacques SAVOYE and his wife. He has been ‘under the cross’ (persecuted), and for many years an eminent merchant at Ghent in Flanders; where he has been persecuted by the Jesuits to such an extent, and where even his life was being threatened, that in order to escape from their snares, and peacefully end his days beyond their reach, he has resolved to cross the ocean as a Colonist and to take with him various Flemish farmers of the reformed religion, who have also suffered persecution, and for the same reason as that of SAVOYE leave their Fatherland. And because we know SAVOYE as we have described him, we most willingly recommend him to your notice and request you to lend him a helping hand, and consider him in the light in which we have introduced him, hoping that for the furtherance of the intentions of the Lords Seventeen he will be an able and desirable instrument.’ (Rambles through the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, 1887.)

Jacques DE SAVOYE ‘with wife and two children’ were among those who did not need any assistance from the Relief Fund 1690; and ‘with wife and three children’ among the Draenstein inhabitants 1692. he left no sons. His daughter Marguerite married before 1690, (1) Christoffel SNYMAN (descendants still living) and (2) Henning VILLION, son of Francois VILLION (or FIGNON) of Clermont. Barbere married (1) Christiaan ELERS (no descendants), and (2) Elias KIENA (no descendants). Aletta DE SAVOYE married Pieter MEYER, presumably Pierre MEYER the refugee."

Jaques De Savoye

Jaques De Savoye was born in Ath, Belgium around 1636 and died in the Cape in October, 1717. He was a merchant and Cape free burgher and was the son of Jacques de Savoye and his wife, Jeanne van der Zee (Delamere, Desuslamer).

Jacques was a wealthy merchant in Ghent, Belgium, but his devotion to the Protestant religion led to his persecution by the Jesuits, and there was even an attempt to murder him. In 1687 he moved to the Netherlands and left for the Cape in the Oosterland on 29th January 1688. In addition to his wife, mother-in-law and three of his children, he was accompanied by the brothers Jean, Jacob and Daniel Nortier.

De Savoye soon became a leader among the French community at the Cape: he was one of the deputation which, on 28th November 1689, asked the Governor and Council of Policy for a separate congregation for the French refugees, and the following year he helped to administer the funds donated to the French refugees by the charity board of the church of Batavia. At various times he also served on the college of landdros and heemraden .

To begin with, Jacques farmed at Vrede-en-Lust at Simondium and in 1699 was also given Leeuwenvallei in the Wagenmakersvallei ( Wellington ), but settled at the Cape soon afterwards. He apparently experienced financial difficulties since in 1701 he owed the Cape church council 816 guilders and various people sued him for outstanding debts. In 1712 he described himself as being without means.

In March 1712 he left for the Netherlands in the Samson, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law. He enrolled as a member of the Walloon congregation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 16th December 1714, but only four months later, on 20th April 1715, it was reported that he had returned to the Cape. There is, however no documentary proof of his presence neither at the Cape neither after 1715, nor in C.G. Botha's assertion that he died in October 1717.

De Savoye often clashed with other people. During the struggle of the free burghers against Wilhem Adriaen van der Stel, he was strongly opposed to the Governor and was imprisoned in the Castle for a time. He was also involved in a long-drawn-out dispute with the Rev. Pierre Simond, and he and Hercules des Pré went to court on several occasions to settle their differences.

He was married twice: first to Christiana du Pont and then to Marie Madeleine le Clercq of Tournai, Belgium, daughter of Philippe le Clercq and his wife, Antoinette Carnoy. Five children were born of the first marriage and three of the second. Three married daughters and a son remained behind at the Cape, as well as a son who was a junior merchant in the service of the V.O.C. and who died without leaving an heir.

Concerning the de Savoye family, it can be noted that while the connection between Jacques de Savoye and his daughter, Marguerite (Margarethe or Margo), and the Dukes of Savoy has not been traced, Jacques was originally a subject of the King of France, and as such would only have used a surname incorporating the aristocratic prefix de if he actually belonged to an aristocratic family.

It can safely be inferred that he was in fact descended from the family of the dukes.

What is known about Jacques is that he lived a the French town called Aeth, and that in 1687 he was living in Ghent, in Flanders. He was a Huguenot merchant known for his zealous defence of his beliefs and for inviting itinerant Protestant pastors to conduct services in his house. For this he earned the hostility of his Catholic neighbours and was pursued by the Jesuits. (The Edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685, and it is likely that he fled France at this time.) At least one attempt was made on his life.

His first wife, Christine du Pont, bore him nine children, of whom six survived to adulthood. Following her death in 1686, Jacques went to live in Sas van Ghent, just across the Dutch border in Zeeland.

While in Sas van Ghent in 1686-87 he married Marie-Madeleine le Clerq from Tournai, in Hainault. They moved from Sas van Gent to Middelburg, where he immediately made plans to join a party of settlers heading for the Cape of Good Hope.

The House of Savoy can be traced back to Humbert I the Whitehanded, probably of Burgundian origin, who in the mid-11th century AD was effectively lord of the area incorporated into France in 1860 as the départements of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, as well as other districts along the Rhône south of Lake Geneva.

This feudal lordship became a county, and afterwards (as the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor diminished) was elevated to a duchy.

The Encyclopædia Britannica notes: “Among the most notable counts of Savoy were Amadeus VII (ruled 1383-91), under whom the port of Nice was acquired, and Amadeus VII (ruled 1391-40), under whom Piedmont (capital Turin), on the Italian side of the Alps, was definitely incorporated (after having belonged for nearly two centuries to a branch of the house) and to whom the title of duke was granted in 1416.”

The Kings of France coveted the district because it controlled strategic routes into Italy, but although it was captured several times by French forces, the ducal house managed to recover it each time.

For a time the family claimed royal status through inheriting the title King of Cyprus (a Crusader title which became practically ineffective when Turkey seized the island).

Victor Amadeus II (ruled 1675-1730) attained actual royal status as ruler of Sicily, which he exchanged in 1720 for Sardinia.

King Victor Emmanuel I (ruled 1802-21) added the province of Liguria, including the port city of Genoa, to the family’s holdings in 1815, and so held a solid bloc of territory from the Ligurian Sea to Switzerland (in addition to Sardinia). This was the platform from which the dynasty launched its ambition to unite Italy under a Savoyard crown, which eventually succeeded in 1861.

The arms of the Dukes of Savoy were a silver (or white) cross on red. When the family ruled Italy, the royal arms showed the cross within a blue border – these arms appeared on the white panel of the green-white-red flag of Italy from 1848 to 1946.

Jacques de SAVOYE (Savoije) gebore 1636, Aeth, Hainaut (Vlaandere). Hy trou 4 Julie 1657 met Christine du PONT, sy was van Ath. Hy trou die tweede maal in 1686 met Marie Madeleine de KLERK (le CLERCQ) sy was van Doornik. Jacques sterwe Oktober 1717. Hy word ook beskryf as 'n oortuigde Calvinis, wat baie vir sy geloof gely het. Blykbaar het sy ywer vir die Protestantse geloof tot gevolg gehad dat hy deur die Jesuïete vervolg is, en daar is selfs sprake van 'n moordkomplot teen hom. Trek van Gent na Sas van Gent in 1686.

Daarna trek hulle na Middelberg. Vertrek op 29 Jan 1688 met die Oosterlandt na die Kaap. Saam met Jacques was sy tweede vrou Marie Madeleine de KLERK (le CLERQ), twee van sy dogters uit sy eerste huwelik, Margaretha 17 jaar en Barbe-Therese 15 jaar, baba Jacques 9 maande en skoonma Antonette Carnoy. Hy bring ook die 3 Nourtier-broers saam as sy knegte. Hulle arriveer op 25 April 1688.

In die Kaap kry hy die plaas Vrede-en-Lust in Drakenstein. Hy was 'n slawe-eienaar, heemraad en selfs Kaptein van die Drakenstein-militia. Ouderling in die kerk.

Jacques se geldsake wou steeds nie vlot verloop nie. Hy was in die skuld by die V.O.C. en ander, o.a. dominee Pierre Simond en was bekend daarvoor dat hy "traag was om rekeninge flink te vereffen". Desnieteenstaande beskryf ds. François Simond van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Flaandere hom as 'n eerlike man met baie ywer vir sy geloof, en verklaar "sy lewe is 'n waardige voorbeeld van reinheid en heiligheid in soverre dit moontlik was in die plek waar hy hom bevind het, waar afgodery hoogty gevier het." Ook goewerneur Van der Stel skryf in 'n brief aan die Kamer van Delft oor hom: "Jacques de Savoye en sy gesin is 'n voorbeeld van ywer vir al die vlugtelinge en uitgewekenes, en dat hy as Heemraad aangewys is n.a.v. sy vaardighede."

Interesant genoeg was hy later aktief in die Vryburgers se stryd teen goewerneur W.A. van der Stel, en is vir 'n tydperk in die Kasteel toegesluit. Hy word beskryf as 'n opvlieënde man, wat maklik aanstoot geneem het. Hy verhuis met sy vrou en haar ma terug na Nederland in 1712 as afslagtarief-dekpassassiers op die Samson.

Hy laat in die Kaap 3 getroude dogters en een seun, waarskynlik Philippe Rudolph, agter. Lg. het sonder erfgenaam gesterf. Dit is bekend dat Jacques by die Walloonse kerk in Amsterdam aangesluit het in 1714. Tog keer hy weer terug na die Kaap in 1716. Daar sterf hy op die rype ouderdom van 81 en is begrawe in Oktober 1717. Christine du Pont sterf 1686. Sy het 5 kinders gehad.

Die tweede vrou Le Clercq sterwe c1721

KINDERS

b1 Jeanne * Ath c.1667 x Andre DU PONT

b2 Jacques gedoop Gent Jun 1667

b3 Julienne-Louise *Gent 16 Mei 1671

b4 Marguerite-Therese *Gent 4 Sept 1672, x Christoffel SNYMAN, xx Henning VILJOEN.

b5 Barbe-Therese * Gent 20 Mei 1674, x Christian EILERS, xx Elias KINA.

b6 Chretien *Gent 27 Jun 1676

b7 Suzanne *Gent 27 Jan 1678

Tweede Huwelik

b8 Jacues gedoop Middelburg 12 April 168

b9 Aletta ~ Kaapstad 17 Jul 1689 x Pierre Meyer

b10 Philippe-Rudolphe ~Drak 28 Aug 1694, + c1741, ongetroud, amptenaar VOC

Sterfdatums van kinders

Julienne Louise + Gent Mei 1671, twee weke oud en Chretien # Gent 30 Sept 1676. Bron Boucher " French speakers at the Cape" pp. 265-267. Hy gee die doopname volgens Franse spelwyse uit registers van die St. Jacobs-kerk in Gent. Sien ook "Hugenotebloed in ons Are" pp. 19 & 20.

SAG 11 p 505 SNYMAN,

Christoffel SNYMAN x MT DE SAVOYE,... uit Gent (ipv Aeth), d.v. J. DE S. en Christine DU PONT v Ath.

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Saamgestel deur:

Ekstra inligting van Jean le Roux

Jaques de Savoye is in Aeth, Hainaut (Vlaandere) gebore. Hy was 'n sakeman daar, en het goed gedoen. Verhuis na Gent in 1667. Hy was bekend as ietwat van 'n dweper, en het die redelik verdraagsame owerhede in Gent geïrriteer. Hy word ook beskryf as 'n oortuigde Calvinis, wat baie vir sy geloof gely het. Blykbaar het sy ywer vir die Protestantse geloof tot gevolg gehad dat hy deur die Jesuïete vervolg is, en daar is selfs sprake van 'n moordkomplot teen hom. Trek van Gent na Sas van Gent in 1686. (Daar is later in die Kaap geskinder dat dit was omdat hy in Gent bankrot gespeel het. Hy het die plek verlaat omtrent dieselfde tydstip dat sy skoonseun (moontlik sy vennoot) bankrot gespeel het en na Leiden vertrek het). Jacques se broer Jean de Savoye het ook in Leiden gewoon. Daarna trek hulle na Middelberg.

Vertrek op 29 Jan 1688 met die "Oosterlandt" na die Kaap. Saam met Jacques was sy tweede vrou Marie Madeleine, twee van sy dogters uit sy eerste huwelik, Margaretha (17 jaar) en Barbe-Therese (15 jaar), baba Jacques (9 maande) en skoonma Antonette Carnoy. Hy bring ook die 3 Nourtier-broers saam as sy knegte. Hulle arriveer op 25 Apr 1688. In die Kaap was hy 'n boer (hy het die plaas Vrede-en-Lust in Drakenstein besit), 'n slawe-eienaar, heemraad en selfs Kaptein van die Drakenstein-militia. Ouderling in die kerk.

Jacques se geldsake wou steeds nie vlot verloop nie. Hy was in die skuld by die V.O.C. en ander, o.a. dominee Pierre Simond en was bekend daarvoor dat hy "traag was om rekeninge flink te vereffen". Desnieteenstaande beskryf ds. François Simond van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Flaandere hom as 'n eerlike man met baie ywer vir sy geloof, en verklaar "sy lewe is 'n waardige voorbeeld van reinheid en heiligheid in soverre dit moontlik was in die plek waar hy hom bevind het, waar afgodery hoogty gevier het." Ook goewerneur Van der Stel skryf in 'n brief aan die Kamer van Delft oor hom: "Jacques de Savoye en sy gesin is 'n voorbeeld van ywer vir al die vlugtelinge en uitgewekenes, en dat hy as Heemraad aangewys is n.a.v. sy vaardighede." Interesant genoeg was hy later aktief in die Vryburgers se stryd teen goewerneur W.A. van der Stel, en is vir 'n tydperk in die Kasteel toegesluit. Hy word beskryf as 'n opvlieënde man, wat maklik aanstoot geneem het. Hy het die plaas "Vrede en Lust" in Drakenstein besit.

Verhuis met sy vrou en haar ma terug na Nederland in 1712 as afslagtarief-dekpassassiers op die Samson. (Hy moes waarskynlik sy hele fortuin verloor het). Hy laat in die Kaap 3 getroude dogters en een seun, waarskynlik Philippe Rudolph, agter. Lg. het sonder erfgenaam gesterf. Dit is bekend dat Jacques by die Walloonse kerk in Amsterdam aangesluit het in 1714. Tog keer hy weer terug na die Kaap in 1716. Daar sterf hy op die rype ouderdom van 81 en is begrawe in Oktober 1717.

Jaques De Savoye (Jonnie Wahl's 7 times great grandfather on his maternal side) was born in Ath, Belgium around 1636 and died in the Cape in October, 1717. He was a merchant and Cape free burgher and was the son of Jacques de Savoye and his wife, Jeanne van der Zee (Delamere, Desuslamer).

Jacques was a wealthy merchant in Ghent, Belgium, but his devotion to the Protestant religion led to his persecution by the Jesuits, and there was even an attempt to murder him. In 1687 he moved to the Netherlands and left for the Cape in the Oosterland on 29th January 1688. In addition to his wife, mother-in-law and three of his children, he was accompanied by the brothers Jean, Jacob and Daniel Nortier.

De Savoye soon became a leader among the French community at the Cape: he was one of the deputation which, on 28th November 1689, asked the Governor and Council of Policy for a separate congregation for the French refugees, and the following year he helped to administer the funds donated to the French refugees by the charity board of the church of Batavia. At various times he also served on the college of landdros and heemraden .

To begin with, Jacques farmed at Vrede-en-Lust at Simondium and in 1699 was also given Leeuwenvallei in the Wagenmakersvallei ( Wellington ), but settled at the Cape soon afterwards. He apparently experienced financial difficulties since in 1701 he owed the Cape church council 816 guilders and various people sued him for outstanding debts. In 1712 he described himself as being without means.

In March 1712 he left for the Netherlands in the Samson, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law. He enrolled as a member of the Walloon congregation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 16th December 1714, but only four months later, on 20th April 1715, it was reported that he had returned to the Cape. There is, however no documentary proof of his presence neither at the Cape neither after 1715, nor in C.G. Botha's assertion that he died in October 1717.

De Savoye often clashed with other people. During the struggle of the free burghers against Wilhem Adriaen van der Stel, he was strongly opposed to the Governor and was imprisoned in the Castle for a time. He was also involved in a long-drawn-out dispute with the Rev. Pierre Simond, and he and Hercules des Pré went to court on several occasions to settle their differences.

He was married twice: first to Christiana du Pont and then to Marie Madeleine le Clercq of Tournai, Belgium, daughter of Philippe le Clercq and his wife, Antoinette Carnoy. Five children were born of the first marriage and three of the second. Three married daughters and a son remained behind at the Cape, as well as a son who was a junior merchant in the service of the V.O.C. and who died without leaving an heir.

Jaques de Savoye is in Aeth, Hainaut (Vlaandere) gebore. Hy was een of ander sakeman daar, en het goed gedoen. Verhuis na Gent in 1667. Hy was bekend as ietwat van 'n dweper, en het die redelik verdraagsame owerhede in Gent geïrriteer. Hy word ook

beskryf as 'n oortuigde Calvinis, wat baie vir sy geloof gely het. Blykbaar het sy ywer vir die Protestantse geloof tot gevolg gehad dat hy deur die Jesuïete vervolg is, en daar is selfs sprake van 'n moordkomplot teen hom. Trek van Gent na Sas van

Gent in 1686. (Daar is later in die Kaap geskinder dat dit was omdat hy in Gent bankrot gespeel het. Hy het die plek verlaat omtrent dieselfde tydstip dat sy skoonseun (moontlik sy vennoot) bankrot gespeel het en na Leiden vertrek het). Jacques se

broer Jean de Savoye het ook in Leiden gewoon. Daarna trek hulle na Middelberg.

Vertrek op 29 Jan 1688 met die "Oosterlandt" na die Kaap. Saam met Jacques was sy tweede vrou Marie Madeleine, twee van sy dogters uit sy eerste huwelik, Margaretha (17 jaar) en Barbe-Therese (15 jaar), baba Jacques (9 maande) en skoonma Antonette

Carnoy. Hy bring ook die 3 Nourtier-broers saam as sy knegte. Hulle arriveer op 25 Apr 1688. In die Kaap was hy 'n boer (hy het die plaas Vrede-en-Lust in Drakenstein besit), 'n slawe-eienaar, heemraad en selfs Kaptein van die Drakenstein-militia.

Ouderling in die kerk.

Jacques se geldsake wou steeds nie vlot verloop nie. Hy was in die skuld by die V.O.C. en ander, o.a. dominee Pierre Simond en was bekend daarvoor dat hy "traag was om rekeninge flink te vereffen". DECnieteenstaande beskryf ds. François Simond van die

Gereformeerde Kerk in Flaandere hom as 'n eerlike man met baie ywer vir sy geloof, en verklaar "sy lewe is 'n waardige voorbeeld van reinheid en heiligheid in soverre dit moontlik was in die plek waar hy hom bevind het, waar afgodery hoogty gevier

het." Ook goewerneur Van der Stel skryf in 'n brief aan die Kamer van Delft oor hom: "Jacques de Savoye en sy gesin is 'n voorbeeld van ywer vir al die vlugtelinge en uitgewekenes, en dat hy as Heemraad aangewys is n.a.v. sy vaardighede." Interesant

genoeg was hy later aktief in die Vryburgers se stryd teen goewerneur W.A. van der Stel, en is vir 'n tydperk in die Kasteel toegesluit. Hy word beskryf as 'n opvlieënde man, wat maklik aanstoot geneem het. Hy het die plaas "Vrede en Lust" in

Drakenstein besit.

Verhuis met sy vrou en haar ma terug na Nederland in 1712 as afslagtarief-dekpassassiers op die Samson. (Hy moes waarskynlik sy hele fortuin verloor het). Hy laat in die Kaap 3 getroude dogters en een seun, waarskynlik Philippe Rudolph, agter. Lg. het

sonder erfgenaam gesterf. Dit is bekend dat Jacques by die Walloonse kerk in Amsterdam aangesluit het in 1714. Tog keer hy weer terug na die Kaap in 1716. Daar sterf hy op die rype ouderdom van 81 en is begrawe in OCTober 1717.

Bron: http://www.mypeoplepuzzle.co.za/cornel_viljoen_research/2510.htm

Ships Passenger List for Huguenot Ship Oosterlandt to South Africa 1688

Oosterland - 3rd ship to leave Netherlands, 160 feet long, could carry 275 passeners. Left Goeree February 3, 1688, no deaths on board and nobody sick when the ship arrived in Table Bay, 2 months & 22 days, arrived Table Bay April 25, 1688.

Jean De Bus of Marck, Calais

Jacques Therond

Jacques de Savoye from Aeth

Marie-Madelaine Le Clerk de Savoye from Doornik (Tournai) France

Antoinette Carnoy from Doornik

Margo de Savoye - 17

Barbere De Savoye - 15

Jacques de Savoye - 9 months

Jean Nortie (servant of Jacques de Savoye), farmer

Jacques Nortie ( " " " " ), farmer

Daniel Nortie ( " " " " ), peasant carpenter

Marie Vitout Nortie

Jean Prieur du Plessis, doctor from Poitiers

Magdalena Menanto (Menanteau) du Plessis from Poitiers

Charles du Plessis (born aboard ship)

Isaack Taillefert from Chateau-Thierry in Brie, wine farmer &

milliner

Susanna Briet Taillefert from Chateau-Thierry

Elyasbet Taillefert - 14

Jean Taillefert - 12

Isaack Taillefert - 7

Pierre Tillefert - 5

Susanna Taillefert - 2 1/2

Maria Taillefert - 1

Sara Avice from Chateaudun

Jan Cloudon from Conde

Jan de Bruisji, farmer from Calais

Jan Parisel, farmer from Paris

24 Huguenots

Ath, provinsie Henegouwe in Spaanse Nederlande =29.01.1636 †1717 : 2de s.v. Julien de Savoye en Jeanne Dureau/Dureau; vlug 1667 na Franse verowering van Ath na Gent in Vlaandere; uitgesproke Calvinis; verhuis 1686 as wewenaar na Sas van Gent in Zeeland. In 1687 gaan hy en gesin na Middelburg, Zeeland, en in 1688 op die skip Oosterland na die Kaap; een van die afvaardiging van 5 Hugenote wat op 28 November 1689 onder leiding van Pierre Simond vir goewerneur Simon van der Stel besoek het om 'n eie gemeente en kerkraad vir die Hugenote te versoek

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'Jeanne DUREAU(DURIEAU)

Christened 30 May 1611 Aeth, Hainant, België

Father Jacques DUREAU(DURIEAU),

Mother Marie GHERSOUILLE,

Family

Spouse - Julien DE SAVOYE, c. 26 Oct 1602, Ath, Province Henegouwe In Spanish Netherlands ,

Married 23 Sep 1631 Aeth, Hainant, België

Children

• Jacques DE SAVOYE, b. 1610, Aeth, France ,
• Jacques DE SAVOYE, progenitor, b. 1636, Aeth, Hainant, France , d. 8 Oct 1717, Cape Town, Cape, South Africa
• Gillette DE SAVOYE, c. 5 Feb 1633, Aeth, Hainant, België ,
• Jean DE SAVOYE, c. 22 Apr 1646, Aeth, Hainant, België , d. 5 Jan 1692, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland

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Emigration: 29 Jan 1688 Middelburg, , Zeeland, Netherlands on the ship "Oosterlandt"
Source: My People's Puzzle

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1688 - 1702 JACQUES DE SAVOYE AND MARIE-MADELEINE LE CLERCQ The story of Vrede & Lust starts in 1686. In Flanders, 50-year-old Jacques de Savoye is being persecuted by religious fanatics, he has just lost the wife who endured labour nine times to provide him with heirs, and his textile trading business in Ghent is ruined. De Savoye relocates to nearby Middelburg in Zealand and when the widower meets and marries 26-year-old Marie-Madeleine le Clercq, life is looking up. The newlyweds decide to make a clean break when the opportunity arises to join the exodus to the Cape. Ever since the Jesuit assassination attempt in retaliation against De Savoye’s hosting of Reformed services in his home, he has felt as threatened as the French Huguenots. The travelling party includes De Savoye’s mother-in-law, Anthonette Carnoij, two children from his first marriage, Margo (17) and Barbère (15), the new baby, Jacques (9 months), plus three servants, the Nortier brothers, Jean, Jacob and Daniel. The latter, a carpenter, will be accompanied by his wife, Maria Vijtou. To smooth his way in the new country, De Savoye sets about obtaining letters of commendation, which refer to De Savoye as well as his servants as eminent people: “his [DeSavoye%E2%80%99s] life seemed a worthy example of purity and holiness, in an environment where idolatry reigned supreme and such a lifestyle was almost impossible”. The 160-foot Oosterland, captained by Carel van Marseveen, departs from Middelburg on January 29, 1688. Amongst the European passengers are the families of Jean Prieur du Plessis and Isaac Taillefert and the soldier Jacques Therond. After 70 days, the immigrants arrive in Table Bay on April 26, a fine day. Instead of having to divert to Saldanha, the Oosterland anchors and the passengers are ferried ashore by rowing boat. Their first impressions of the awesome mountain are counterbalanced by the diminutive size of the settlement. They have arrived on a new continent, to start a new life. Some will adapt and survive, others not. Madeleine du Plessis will last five years before returning to Europe. The Tailleferts will lose two children within the year. In De Savoye family records, there is mention of a second child, Jacquette, but because one does not read about her in later documents, she may have been born at sea and died during the southbound journey. Undeterred, the resolute Savoyes, as can be predicted from their colourful past, now embark on a most wondrous adventure. A farm in Africa The scene shifts to Drakenstein, the furthest outpost of the Cape colony, still sparsely populated with only 23 Dutch freeburghers having settled there the year before. The valley is majestically beautiful, though quite rugged, with dense forests, game, notably lion and tiger, and nomadic Khoi (Hottentot). The pioneers live in simple clay and reed homes. Nothing in De Savoye’s earlier career suggests that agricultural pursuits such as ploughing, planting, building and raising livestock would attract the merchant, but he now becomes the owner of a magnificent piece of property against the foothills of the Napoleonsberg (today known as Simonsberg). He calls his farm Vrede en Lust (Peace and Delight), nurturing visions of a rural paradise where he can spend his last days. Although the land becomes his full and free property with immediate effect, he only receives the title deed to the 120 morgen 1
six years later, on 15 April 1694. It is then signed and issued by Simon van der Stel, Council Extraordinary of India and Governor of the United Netherlands Chartered East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope 2
, on condition that De Savoye regularly replace trees felled on his farm with young oak trees or other afforestation, and supply the Honourable Company with one tenth of his annual wheat crop. 3
As a novice farmer, De Savoye prospers, unlike most of the Huguenots, who complain so much about stony and marshy soil that they qualify for handouts from Batavia. Even though he runs up far more debt for initial supplies than any of the other newcomers, he makes a concerted effort to pay back his dues. In 1688 he owes 783 florins, the following year only 144 florins.1 The Rhineland measure was usually adopted in surveying land. It was approximately three times the size of the equivalent Dutch measure. 2 The seal of the VOC used on documents at the Cape was a representation of the ship Dromedaris in which Van Riebeeck voyaged to the Cape. 3 Translation of the original title deed of Vreede en Lust, a farm in the District of Drakenstein, April 1694. Granted in 1688 to the Huguenot Jacobus de Savoijen. “We Simon van der Stel, Councillor Extraordinary of India, Governor under the United Netherlands Chartered East Indies Company at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island Mauritius and the territory thereabouts, and We, the Councillors, herewith make known “That in the year 1688 was granted, ceded and given to the Free Agriculturist and Heemraad Jacobus de Savoye in full and free ownership and is granted, ceded and given to him by these, certain piece of land named Vrede en Lust, situated in Drakestein, extending W.S.W. upwards to the Simonsberg and E.N.E. downwards to the properties of Roelof van Wijk and Hendrik Eekhof, S.S.E. to that of Charl Mare and N.N.W. to that of Daniel Noodje, measuring in length AB and CD six hundred, in breadth AD and BC one hundred and twenty roods, altogether in extent measuring 120 morgen Rhineland measure as indicated by the above figure ABCD by the Surveyor; with full power and authority to plow, sow, cultivate, afforestate, to possess in full ownership, to administer and thereafter should he so desire to sell the said land, to hire it out or to alienate it in any manner whatsoever, in accordance with such laws as may be in force in this Government; and he shall continue to be responsible for and to construct beside his cornfields, a common wagon road for the use and convenience of himself as well as for the other settlers; and also a ford across the river the same width as the road; and further he shall be responsible to replace from time to time the trees chopped down on his farm with young oaks or other timber; and over and above all this, he shall be liable to bring in yearly to the Governor of the Honourable Company a tithe of his grain crop, under penalty that should he fail to carry out promptly these conditions, or should he not plant and cultivate the land in accordance with the laws proclaimed, the authorities shall be free to take the said land from him for the benefit of and to remain under the control of the Government; and he shall be liable to such taxes and perform such public duties as are laid down by the Government here, or as may be imposed in the future for the benefit of the Honourable Company and for the welfare of the Colony. “Thus granted and given in the Castle of Good Hope “15 April Anno 1694 S. v.d. Stel “SEAL “By Order of the Hon. Governor and Councillors J.G. De Grevenbroek. Secretary.”

De Savoye contributes greatly to the development of the Drakenstein valley. On 4 January 1689 he is elected Heemraad (Magistrate) because of his efficiency and knowledge of the Dutch and French languages, as well as his comprehension of the Portuguese spoken in the Indies. Van der Stel writes to the Delft Chamber, saying that De Savoye and family are an example for all the refugees and exiles. On 28 November 1689 De Savoye, together with the Reverend Pierre Simond and three other Huguenots, requests that the French farms be spaced closer together so that a church council can be nominated. Two thirds of the community are unable to follow a Dutch sermon, and living one, two or even three hours on horseback from each other, the new farmers struggle to learn the Dutch language. Despite Van der Stel’s indignation, the request is forwarded to the Netherlands and the Here XVII of the Dutch East India Company comply. Two years later De Savoye finally becomes a member of the first French church council comprising four elders and five deacons. By 1692 De Savoye is running a successful mixed farming enterprise. Bar one, he produces the most wheat and barley of all the burghers. He owns four horses, 30 cattle, 10 000 vines and slaves such as Jan from Madagascar and Maria of Bengal. Carpenter Barent Jansz is engaged to build a proper house and when the two men later become involved in a dispute regarding remuneration, the Magistrate determines that De Savoye actually paid too much! Meanwhile, the Nortier brothers are doing extremely well for themselves, considering that most young men who came to the Cape were soldiers and sailors and, if they were lucky, farmhands. Daniel, the carpenter, is making money in his spare time doing woodwork. Soon he is ready to claim independence for him and his young family. He and Marie lost their first-born, Jacques, born shortly after their arrival, but a mere two years after arriving in the Drakenstein valley, Nortier becomes the brand new owner of the neighbouring farm La Motte. His brother, Jean, acquires the deed of grant to the adjacent farm Fredericksburg. The De Savoyes find it easy to adjust to the predominantly Dutch society at the Cape. Jacques is soon known to all as Jacobus, and the lady of the house, Marie-Madeleine, becomes Maria Magdalena. For Maria one feels a fair amount of admiration. She seems to be adapting well to her new circumstances, so far removed from European culture in every conceivable way, but she is astute and no stranger to hard work. Maria is in fact so capable that she holds power of attorney for Jacobus when in the Cape. For all intents and purposes, she is an active business partner, a no-nonsense type of woman, blessed with a lot of common sense, like her mother, who was destitute but emancipated. In The Hague, Anthonette Carnoij was often at the mercy of charity from the Walloon Church, but in the Cape she confidently engages in dealings with her church in Holland. The well-known De Savoyes are held in high esteem. When little Aletta is born a year after their arrival in the colony, Simon van der Stel acts as witness to the christening in Cape Town on 17 July 1689. Not long afterwards Jacobus’ eldest daughter, Margo (in her will, she writes her name as Margarita Theresia de Savoy) who married Christoffel Snyman, also spelt Cristoffle Cnayman, Senayment, Sceniemen, Seniman or Snijman, not long after the family’s arrival in the Cape, gives birth to the infant Catharina. Christoffel is the son of a free black called Antony from Bengal and Catharina of Palicatte. Far from the scandal one would imagine, interracial marriages between whites and freed slaves were not uncommon at the Cape and in the Stellenbosch and Drakenstein districts. For a man like Christoffel it was not unusual to integrate with the local community, both socially and economically. Nothing prevented him from owning a farm, as did Jonkershoek landholders Anthonie from Angola, Louis from Bengal and Jan from Ceylon.

Church controversy

De Savoye is a man of contrasts. He has a fiery temper and is quick to take offence, but is willing to share prosperity, as proven by his support of the Nortier brothers’ attempt at gaining their independence. Unfortunately, a number of incidents cloud De Savoye’s reputation in a small community that thrives on malicious gossip. Rumours that such a well-known and respected citizen as himself has been declared bankrupt in the Netherlands hurt him deeply, and although they are not unfounded, De Savoye feels that he has to clear his name. The Reverend Pierre Simond, for whom the hamlet Simondium was named, takes his position as shepherd very seriously and places De Savoye under censure. A bitter argument ensues and De Savoye is refused communion. Each of the two men has his supporters, thereby creating a rift in the tightly-knit community of Drakenstein. De Savoye approaches the Stellenbosch parish for membership and is accepted. In the interim, he writes to the Netherlands, accusing Simond of various wrongs, such as the intention of importing an oven which everyone else will be forced to use for baking bread, and the fact that Simond’s wife is selling all sorts of things! Moreover, he is upset that Simond demands one tenth of the parish income and opposes a church council so that he can rule like a pope or a bishop. Simond denies everything and in support of their minister, forty-eight of the French testify that they have nothing but praise for him and that the accusations are mere libel. The plot thickens when Christoffel Snyman, presents his baby for the christening with his father-in-law, De Savoye, as witness. Simond declares, in front of the entire congregation, that he will christen the child but cannot accept De Savoye. De Savoye, his wife and daughter then launch a vociferous attack in front of the pulpit. Not only do they insult Simond, they threaten to expel him into everlasting perdition. He is called a “tartufle” (hypocrite), a priest, a Jesuit, a Judas, a “caffre” (infidel), a false shepherd, and they promise that their influential friends will teach “ce beau petit Monsieur” (this pretty little chap) a lesson! Simond retaliates in the form of 37 written pages, in which he shows himself to be a master of rhetoric! The council nevertheless investigates Simond’s affairs and in retrospect, this was a spurious attack on officialdom. The combined church councils of the Cape, Stellenbosch and Drakenstein conclude that Simond should have accommodated De Savoye in his church and that the brothers should reconcile, expressing their dismay at the unforgiving nature of the French Calvinists who cannot control their disputes. In essence De Savoye remains a querulous character. He has a habit of becoming embroiled in court cases, often over mere trifles. On 26 February 1693 he takes Pieter Beuk to court over a handsaw. Shortly afterwards, it is Pieter Meyer’s turn to take his employer to court for not paying his wages in full. In 1694, Coert Helm and Daniel Bouvat sue him for the same reason. Several other court cases are noted, such as the maintenance of a drift, De Savoye being responsible for the upkeep of the road between his farm and Klapmuts. Governor Van der Stel even receives a letter from the Rotterdam Chamber concerning De Savoye’s crotchety temper. It reads: “[%E2%80%A6] his nature can only be effectively altered and improved by time, kind intercourse, and treatment. This we readily entrust to your discretion.” Ironically, the first Huguenot church, little more than a barn, was probably located on land belonging to De Savoye, since the address of the church is “The French Huguenot Parish, Vredeen-Lust, Simonsberg”. One of the most impassioned advocates for the erection of a church, De Savoye acquires an annex of 60 morgen to the south of his farm and north of the Grootrivier, on 22 December 1694. Of this, 48 morgen are allocated to the Drakenstein parish. This eastern part of the annex is now known as Rust-en-Vrede and forms part of Plaisir de Merle. In 1695, De Savoye is elected one of the first officers when Stellenbosch establishes its own burgher military force and, his status reaffirmed, he proudly leads the company of foot soldiers. As a captain in the Drakenstein Infantry, serving until 1700, De Savoye attends annual military manoeuvres which include drilling and shooting at targets with flint-lock muskets loaded with loose powder. These manoeuvers are a popular social event with the burghers. That same year, a signal canon is erected on Simonsberg to tie in with the signalling system at Cabo, defence having become an important matter to the far-off community. When rumours suggest that the French may attack the Cape, the burgher unit, consisting of 100 inhabitants of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, perform active duty every 14 days, reinforcing the Cape garrison on a relay base. In future they would be called up on a regular basis for duty at the Cape and in the interior, for example in 1715, when commando’s were mounted against the San who stole cattle.

Family matters The family’s living conditions probably consist of a tiny, flat-roofed structure. In all likelihood, the church building is probably De Savoye’s first attempt at building a house, since it is described as the “hut of one of our Frenchmen who has moved” (loge d’un de nos français qui a changé de place”). The traveller Valentyn describes it as a small, low building with walls not higher than three or four feet, made of clay with a flat thatch roof. 4 The first houses were all rudimentary, built with the most basic implements and dependent on the natural materials that are available – a mixture of clay and reeds, the bricks moulded roughly, dried in the sun and cemented with burnt limestone. Free burghers who did not find clay often built ‘hardbieshuise’, believed to be named after the hard reeds or ‘biesies’ used to build them. These huts were similar to the grass huts of the blacks further north, although larger and more commodious. Building homes took second place to establishing crops and livestock herds that would enable the burghers to repay the company for their land. 5
As early as 1658, fuel for the firing kilns had become so scarce at the Cape that the search for wood had extended to the settlements of the free burghers. The Company then prohibited the brick and lime makers from collecting the small bushes growing on the Cape flats, as the settlers used to for plaiting the walls of their huts. Meanwhile, Jacques and Maria are blessed with another child. Little Aletta is five when her brother is born. Philippe Rodolphe (spelt Rodolf in Dutch) is the first baby to be christened in the new Drakenstein church, according to the entry in the register, which dates from August 1694. With Jacques attending to judicial, religious and military matters, it is Maria who holds the fort, not only inside her little clay house, but also on the surrounding land, with the help of servants, mostly soldiers granted as contract workers. Two sons-in-law, Pieter Meyer and Christian Ehlers, are also occasional employees of the family. For the sake of his two sons, De Savoye acquires two more farms: in 1698, one at Simonsvlei, and soon thereafter the farm Kromme Rivier in Wagenmaker’s Valley, to the north of the current Wellington. In 1705, he purchases another farm in this vicinity. He applies for permission to hunt, like many farmers who thus provide for their families, and permission is granted to shoot eland and hartebees in the vicinity of Roodesand. The land is leased to other farmers, the first being Lanquedoc’s Jacques Therond, the soldier who was also on board the Oosterland when they first journeyed to the Cape, on condition that he build a house and kraal and plant 5 000 vines. De Savoye retains a third interest in the farm and never gains much profit from its operations. Although he appears to flourish, the opposite is true. His finances at the Cape have become just as precarious as they were in Europe. The turn of the century is not a very joyous occasion on Vrede en Lust. The inhabitants are no longer optimistic, merely stoic. The southernmost tip of Africa brought opportunity for De Savoye and his family, but life is difficult – in fact, it is one long struggle for survival. So much remains to be done, so much wilderness to be tamed. At heart De Savoye is a European gentleman, an entrepreneur, a businessman, not a farmer. It will take another century, and many more hardworking men, born to the land, before the farm is sufficiently developed to claim its rightful place amongst the thriving Cape wine estates. Barely a year into the new century, De Savoye gives up full scale farming. By 1701, the Company, to whom De Savoye is heavily indebted, insists on repayment of the loan. He raises some cash by selling Vrede en Lust to his son-in-law, Christiaan Ehlers, and accepts a mortgage bond for the balance of the sale price. This bond is immediately transferred to his old enemy Pierre Simond, possibly to cancel the debt for the house in Table Valley, on the corner of the present-day Burg and Castle Streets, which De Savoye buys when the 50-year-old Simond returns to Europe. At Cabo, De Savoye engages in a commercial venture dealing in agricultural produce, but fails to meet with great success. He buys skins and makes pants for sailors to earn extra pocket. Aged 70, having lost none of his fighting spirit, De Savoye also attempts to expose the corrupt government of Governor Willem Adriaen van der Stel and becomes a leading champion of the burgher cause. He is arrested in 1706, together with two of his sons-in-law, namely Pierre Meyer of Dauphine (Aletta’s husband) and Elias Kina (Barbe-Thérèse’s second husband). The dissidents are imprisoned in the infamous ‘Dark Hole’ in the Castle, which Adam Tas, the wellknown diarist, describes as the most putrid prison in the world, where usually only prisoners condemned to death spent their last days. When Pieter Meyer becomes ill, he relents in a (4 Kolbe, Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Beschryving van De Kaap de Goede Hoop 5 Hartdegen, Paddy (1988). Our Building Heritage – An Illustrated History. Halfway House: Ryll’s Publishing Company. p 12) diplomatically worded statement, saying that he regrets all his wrongdoings, but De Savoye shows no fear and says he signed the petition because the Cape was going to the dogs. His only goal, he insists, is to prevent officials from owning property and allow the burghers free trade in cattle, grain and wine. On 12 February 1712 De Savoye applies for free passage back to the United Provinces for him, his wife and mother-in-law. This is not granted, but in view of their age and indigence, they pay half-fare as deck passengers on Cornelis de Geus’s ship the Samson. Why does De Savoye not ask for assistance from his three sons-in-law? Is he too proud, or are relations strained? The house in Table Valley is only sold in April 1713, the year of the small-pox epidemic, which means that those proceeds could not be used either. When De Savoye and his wife are admitted to membership of the Walloon Church in Amsterdam in 1714, with a Cape attestation, there is no mention of Anthonette Carnoij. She may have passed away in the course of the journey. Yet another major and unforeseen upheaval awaits the family. The next year, the couple’s son, Philippe Rodolphe, who had been sent to Europe as a young man for his education, returns to the Cape, taking passage on the Westerdijxhom as a soldier and subsequently joining the shore establishment, where he rises to the rank of junior merchant. With three daughters and numerous grandchildren also in the colony, the parents are induced to leave Holland once again and make the long journey back to the Cape, where they are admitted as members of the congregation on 16 March 1716. On 15 September of that year, Jacobus de Savoyen presents his son, then aged 22, for church membership. Philippe Rodolphe leads a respectable life as book-keeper and military paymaster, a member of the Orphan Board and the Marriage Board, a Cape deacon and cellar master of the East India Company in Cape Town. He is appointed to the latter position in 1721 and still occupies it at the time of his death in 1741, when the surname De Savoye dies out in South Africa. Jacques, the baby who accompanied his parents on their long south-bound voyage, never farms near Simonsvlei. The farm on the Kromme River was promised to his mother by Simon van der Stel in 1689 and held in trust for the minor, together with another property in the region, but his early death occurs some time before 1708. Margo becomes the founding mother of the Snymans in South Africa. The couple have nine children before Christoffel passed away and in 1707, the 36-year-old widow marries Henning Viljoen. The following year, her eldest, Catharina, marries Johannes Viljoen, the brother of her stepfather. The descendants of both Henning Viljoen and Johannes Viljoen are therefore also descendants of Jacobus de Savoye. Aletta, the first of the De Savoye children to be born on African soil, marries Pierre (Pieter) Meyer, a Huguenot from Dauphine, one of the original immigrants in 1688. One of Aletta’s sons, Philippe Rudolph Meyer, becomes deputy-merchant and cellar master of the Cape government. The Meyers have seven children and countless Meyers are also direct descendants of Jacques de Savoye. Two years after his return to Africa, in October 1717, Jacques de Savoye passes away – aged 81 and a pauper. His wife, Maria Magdalena, dies in May 1721. Vrede en Lust’s first owner was a man of great vision, a megalomaniac, whose great strength lay in his powerful religious life and voluntary efforts as a missionary for the Protestant cause.

1702 CHRISTIAAN EHLERS AND BARBÈRE DE SAVOYE The second owner of Vrede en Lust fell in love with Jacques de Savoye’s second daughter while working as a labourer on the farm. Christiaan Ehlers (or Eijlersz, Eelers or Eybers), brother of Hendrik, the Lion’s Head signaller before leaving the Cape, marries Barbère and with her active participation in his business affairs, makes a lot of money as a baker. In 1701, when Jacobus de Savoye is so heavily indebted to the Company that he cannot repay his loan, Christiaan buys Vrede en Lust from his father-in-law, thus presenting him with enough cash to satisfy his creditors. There is one minor complication though: Christiaan Ehlers has no interest whatsoever in farming. His business is flourishing and his wife enjoys the comfort of the settlement in Table Valley. Neither of them is keen to exchange their relatively relaxed and complacent existence for one of hardship in the countryside. Ehlers immediately sells the property to the farmer Willem van Zyl, merely acting as an intermediary in a curiously rapid transaction. The transaction is concluded in two stages starting in January 1702. To the Cape authorities, the mobility of the early Drakenstein population is a problem. On 2 December 1697 the Political Council issues an ordinance that inhabitants of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein will only be able to move to the Cape providing they pay 50 rix-dollars to the Stellenbosch magistrate. This measure is intended to prevent colonists who received free land from selling the property shortly afterwards and settling in Table Valley. Ehlers does not have to pay the fine, for those who have the likelihood of earning a good living in town, are excluded from the stipulation. However, he pays ratherly dearly for the farm, perhaps only for the benefit of his in-laws, for he was an astute businessman. For his 5 010 guilders Indian valuation Ehlers acquires 120 morgen of cultivated land and “seekere hofstede, en opstaande behuisinge en verdere betimmeringe” (some buildings and timber structures). This refers to the rough attempt at housing made by his father-in-law. When Christiaan dies in 1703, Barbère is left with four children under the age of six. Supporting herself and her young family as a baker and confectioner, she remarries a former sailor and clerk in the Company’s pay department in 1706. Elias Kina (also spelt Quina or Nina), originally from Amsterdam, learns the baker’s trade from his wife. After four more pregnancies, Barbère is widowed once again in 1714. A well-off and cultured businesswoman, Barbère owns a house in Table Valley, a farm and assorted household effects. She raises her children to be not only resourceful, but also to enjoy a taste for the finer things in life. They attend church services in the Groote Kerk, consecrated in 1704. Her youngest daughter, Christina, marries Nikolaus von Dessin, who bequeathes his entire library with books, manuscripts, paintings, objets d’art, mathematical and astrological instruments to the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town for the founding of the first public library in the country.

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=Note on Birth Place by Chris Steyn:

Ath, where he was born in 1636, is in Wallonia which was part of the Burgundian territories which were under Spanish rule from 1556 to 1648. The region was known as Spanish Netherlands during this period.

Later on he moved to Gent, which is in Flanders...

Today, Ath is in the Hainaut province, Walloon region, Belgium as is indicated on the profile at this stage

Gebeurtenisse: Monsieur Jacqes de Savoy

1. Daniel Nourtier uit die buurt van Calais in Frankryk, s.v. Jean Nourtier, 'n baastimmerman, en Eva du Pont, aankoms 1688 op die Oosterland','n timmerman en in diens van die edelman Jacques de Savoye. Hy ontvang Plaas La Motte'- Reeler Family Tree- Selected Families and Individuals

2.	Monsieur Jacqes de Savoy

i. Le 29 aoust 1694

Philippe Rodolf fils de monsieur jacqes de  Savoye Et madame le clair, le temoins Et Rodolf passemant Et sa famme –

ii. The 29 August 1694, Philippe Rodolf son of Monsieur Jacqes de Savoye and Madame le Clair. The witnesses: Rodolf Passeman and his wife

a. Visconte Jacques de Savoy: 1636-1717

a. Jacques de Savoye se van word geskrywe: Savoij; Savo; Savooij en Savoy

b. Sy voorgeslagte skryf sy naam Giacomo vir Jacobus, James, Jaime en Jacques

c. De Memours verwys na die gebied van afkoms in die Alpe, wat deel van hulle erfenis en adelike tittel geword het

d. Adelikes sonder ‘n titel noem hulleself: Écuyer(Skilddraer/Jonkheer/ Jonkvrou/Young Lord)

e. Jonkheer (female equivalent: Jonkvrouw) is a Dutch honorific of nobility. In Belgium, the title of Écuyer (in French) or Jonkheer/Jonkvrouw (in Dutsh) is the lowest title within the nobility system-Wikipedia

f. VISCOUNT

I. Fr. Vicomte; Ger. Vicomte; Ir. Biocun; Ital. Visconte; Lat. Vice Comes; Sp. Vizconde) A title meaning, essentially, "Vice-Count," an assistant or deputy Count. It is now the fourth grade of nobility, situated between Counts/Earls on the one hand, and Barons on the other.

II. In these families it is more usual that only the oldest male descendant bears the family title while other descendants bear the predicate of Jonkheer (m) or Jonkvrouw (f).

g. Die gebied Nemours het alreeds in die Middeleeue deur die Heilige Romeinse Ryk sy beslag gekry

h. Amadeus V111(1391-1436) het die gebiedsgrense aansienlik verbreed en word daardeur tot ‘n duke gepromoveer

b. Jacques se Lewensmilieu:

a. Gebore: 1636-Aeth, Hainaut, Frankryk

b. Gedoop: Rooms Katoliek: 29 Januarie 1636-Ath

c. Taal: Spaans/Nederlands/Frans

d. Werk: i. Jacques de Savoye en sy skoonpa Dennis du Pont was venote in die sakewêreld

e. Die volgende boek is geskrywe: Grootboek or Accounts ledger of the firm de Savoye and Du Pont of Ghent, Belgium, November 1683 - May 1685

f. Word as ’n vermoënde en suksesvolle handelaar beskou

g. Jacques se broer Jean de Savoye het in Leiden gewoon

c. Rigtingveranderende Omstandighede:

Aanloop tot die Huguenote:

a. Die eerste Huguenote het Frankryk in 1555 vir Switzerland en Nederland verlaat

b. Die benaming Huguenoot is moontlik van die Switserse Protestanse leier Besancon Hugues(1500) afkomstig.

‘n Ander suggestie is, dat Hugenoot van die franse woord Huguon afgelei is. Huguon beteken een wat loop in die nag.

c. Henry 1V, Koning van Frankryk het deur die Edik van Nantes sy voorkeur aan Protestantisme getoon

d. Gedoop as katoliek het hy saam net sy moeder Jeanne d’Abret, Koningin van Navarra protestant geword

e. Word Koning 1572

f. Trou met Margaret van Valois, dogter van Henry 11 en Catharine de ‘Medici op 18 Augustus 1572 te Notre Dame Katedraal

g. Op 24 Augustus 1572 het die St. Bartholomeus Dag Slagting plaasgevind

h. Oorleef ‘n sluipmoordaanval met die St. Bartholomeus Dag Slagting

e. Die Edik van Nantes het die Katolieke geloof as Staatsgodsdiens bevestig. Godsdiensvryheid, asook politieke vryheid word in hulle gebiede gewaarborg. Daarby mag geen Protestanse Kerke in oorheersend Katolieke gebiede gebou word nie

f. Die Edik van Nantes het aanvanklik ‘n bydrae tot kalmte gelewer

g. Louis XIV het met sy ‘dragonnades{soldate}’ en ander vorme van vervolging het die wil om die land te verlaat, versterk

h. Teen 1620 het die Huguenote sterker weerstand teen die opbouende druk van die regering gebied

i. Tussen 1610-1635 het hierdie toestand tot sporadiese godsdienstige burgerlike opstande gelei

j. Louis 1V het al hoe meer aggressief geword om die Huguenote tot ander insigte te bring

k. Die volgende het Louis 1V gedoen: Sendelinge moes die Protestante tot Katolisisme laat terugkeer. Die teruggekeerdes sou finansiële kompensaie kry. Die Protestante se skole is gesluit en hulle sou nie in belangrike werke geplaas word nie

l. In 1685 herroep hy die Edik van Nantes en inisieer hy die Edik van Fontainebleau

                                             . m.	Die Edik van Fontainebleau het alle Protestantse aanbiddinge verbied. Kinders is Katoliek opgevoed. Emigrasie is veban

n. Dit was die begin van toegewyde gelowiges om hulle stand, bloed en goed te verlaat

o. Jacques se lewe voor 1688

I. Jacgues was ‘n lojale onderdaan van die Koning van Frankryk Louis 1

II. Trouens op daardie stadium was hy nog deel van die Rooms Katolieke Kerk en Adelstand. Die ‘de’ voor sy van getuig, dat hy nog deel was van die aristokrasie

III. In die jaar 1685 word die Edik van Nantes herroep

IV. Christiana du Pont sterf in 1686

V. Vertrek in 1686 as wewenaar van Gent na Sas

VI. Trou 1686 met Maria Madelene de Clerq van Doornik

VII. Verhuis na Middelpunt

VIII. In die jaar 1687 moes hy ‘n godsdienstige kentering ondergaan het. In hierdie jaar het hy Protestanse predikante in sy huis laat optree

IX. As ‘n oortuigde Calvinis het sy ywer vir die Protestantse geloof blykbaar tot gevolg gehad, dat hy deur die Jesuïte vervolg is

X. Daar is ook sprake van ‘n moordkomplot teen hom

XI. Die Kamer van Rotterdam maak op datum 24 Desember 1687 van die volgende gewag: He has been ‘under the cross(Persecuted),” and for many years an eminent merchant at Ghent in Flaanders; where he has been persecuted by the Jesuits to such an extent, and where his life was being threatened

XII. Vertrek na die Kaap met die skip Oosterlandt 29.01.1688

XIII. Saam met hom was sy tweede vrou Marie Madeleine de Klerk(le Clerq), twee van sy dogters uit sy eerste huwelik, Margaretha 17 jr., Barbe-Therese 15 jr., Jacques 9-maande en sy skoonma Antonette Carnoy

XIV. Hy bring drie Nourtier-broers saam as sy knegte(Domestiques). Hulle was deel van sy adelike lewenswyse. Dit was die gebruik, dat adelikes vir ander adelikes gaan werk het; juis om in die adelike leefwyse ingelyf te word

XV. Daniël Nourtier wat eers as timmerman in diens van die Edelman Jacques de Savoye was; ontvang die plaas La Motte(www.reeler.co.za

XVI. Daniël Nourtier se moeder Eva Dupont en Jacques de Savoye se vrou Christiana Dupont is susters

XVII. Die Nourtiers is dus uit ‘n adelike linie. Min sou Daniël Nourtier kon dink, dat die Here God uit sy lendene ‘n toekomstige Eerste Minister sou laat kom

Jacques se lewe na 1688:

a. Arriveer in die Kaap 25 April 1688

b. In die Kaap kry hy die plaas Vrede-en-Lust te Drakenstein

c. Op 17 Julie 1689 word hy ‘n volwaardige lidmaat van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk te Drakenstein en skryf sy naam as Jakobus de Savo.

d. Jacobus(Giacomo) en Savo doodgewoon die plek van herkoms en van alle adelikheid gestroop

e. Op 17 July 1689 tree Goeweneur Simon van der Stel as getuie by Aletta de Savoye se doop

f. Op 28 November 1689 was hy deel van ‘n Deputate om by die Goeweneur en Politieke Raad vir ‘n afsonderlike Gemeente vir Franssprekendes te vra

g. Dien op die bestuur in 1690 om gelde aan vlugtelinge deur die Kerk in Betavia geskenk, te administreer

h. Hy en sy huis was van die weinige, wat nie as vlugteling en uitgewekene geld van die Relief Fund van 1690 gekry het nie

i. Slawe-eienaar, Dien as Heemraad, Kaptein van die Drakenstein-militia en Ouderling in die Kerk

j. Ds. François Simond van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Flaandere beskryf hom as ‘n eerlike man met baie ywer vir sy geloof

k. Goeweneur Van der Stel skryf aan die Kamer van Delft, dat Jacques ‘n voorbeeld van ywer vir al die vlugtelinge en uitgewekenes is, en dat hy as Heemraad vanweë sy vaardighede aangewys is

l. Op 15 April 1694 word Vrede en Lust in Jacques se naam geregistreer en geteken deur Simon van der Stel in sy hoedanigheid as: Council Extaordinary of India and Govener of the Netherlands Chartered East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope

m. Jacques raak aktief betrokke by die stryd van die Vryburgers teen Willem Adriaan van der Stel seun van Simon van der Stel

n. Jacques word in die Kasteel gevange gehou

o. Hy word beskryf as ‘n opvliënde en liggeraakte persoon

p. Die stryd van die Vryburgers het sy merk op Willem Adriaan van der Stel se vrou Maria de Haze gelaat

q. Maria probeer om in 1705 selfmoord te pleeg

r. Gelukkig het Anna de Coningh, vrou van Olof Bergh(Lid van die Politieke Raad) tot haar redding gekom

s. ‘n Vete met wedesydse verwyte tussen Jacques en Ds. Simond bars los

t. Die saak word op die spits met die doop van sy dogter se kindjie gedryf

u. Ds. Simond verklaar voor die kansel; dat hy die kindjie sal doop, maar aanvaar nie vir Jacques voor die kansel nie

v. En daar voor die kansel vind woede, belediginge en dreiginge plaas

w. In die internetstuk: Infamous Coenraad de Buys for walk through time staan die volgende: They(Jacques se familie) threaten to expel him(Ds. Simond) into everlasting perdition. He is called “tartufle(hypocrite),” a priest, a Jesuit, a Judas, a “caffre(infedel),” a false shepherd

x. Die gekombineerde Kerkrade van die Kaap, Stellenbosch en Drakenstein het Jacques op sy onvanpaste optrede gewys en dat Jacques in die situasie geakkommodeer moes word

y. Ds. Petrus Kalden opvolger van Ds. Pierre Simond praat van Jacques as Jacobus(Oorspronklike naam Giacoma) de Savoye

z. 1698 het hy nog ‘n plaas te Simonsvlei bekom; asook in 1699 die plaas Kromme Rivier by Wagenmakersvallei (Wellington)

aa. Vestig hom hierna spoedig in die Kaap

bb. In Nederland word hy bankrot verklaar

cc. Jacques probeer om sy naam in ere te stel deur Vrede en Lust aan sy skoonseun te verkoop

dd. In die Kaap het Jacques se geldsake in die jaar 1701 drasties versleg.

ee. Was by die V.O.C. en ander in die skuld. In die verband skryf Ds. Pierre Simond, dat hy ”traag was om rekeninge flink te betaal”

ff. Vanweë sy bankrotskapverklaring word hy onder kerklike sensuur geplaas; deur nie die Sakrament van die Heilige Nagmaal mag te gebruik nie

gg. In 1712 beskryf hy homself “as being without means”

hh. Hy verhuis in 1712 met sy vrou en skoonma met ouderdomsvoordeel van ‘n sewentigjarige afslagtarief dekpassasiers op die Samson terug Nederland toe

ii. Word in 16 Desember 1714 Lidmaat van die Walloonse Kerk te Amstedam

jj. Keer na vier maande op 20 April 1715 terug na die Kaap

kk. Sterf Oktober 1717 in die rype ouderdom van 81-jaar

ll. Met die dood van sy seun Philippe Rodolphe in 1741 het die De Savoye-van in Suid-Afrika uitgesterf-Ingestuur Ds. MG Muller

Jacques de Savoye sailed on the Oosterland from Middelburg to the Cape on 29 January 1688. The ship docked on 26 Apr 1688. Jacques owned the farms Vrede-en-Lust and Simondium.

Spellings: Jacob de Savoij, Jacobus de Savo, Jacobus de Savoye, Jacobùs Savooij.