Madeleine Tornebüe

• Not the daughter of Jean Luillier, Lord of Boullencourt and Presles and Renée Luillier.
• Not the mother of John Fernald, {Fictional - Fernald fraud} and Rev. Dr. François Fernel, {Fictional - Fernald fraud}, or of Magdalene Guedeville

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Biography

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Madeleine Tornebüe, was the daughter of a conseiller to the Parlement of Paris. She married in 1531, Jean Fernel, who was a physician to the royal court of Henri II, King of France. They had two daughters (there may have been other children, but these are the only 2 to survive him):

1. Marie, the elder, who married Philibert Barjot, also a conseiller to the Parlement;
2. Madeleine, who married Gilles Riant, a lawyer[1]

Death and burial

Madeleine, died perhaps at Fontainebleau in 1558, and her husband Jean apparently only survived her by a month and died there on 26 April 1558. He was buried in the Church of Saint-Jacques de la Bourcherie in Paris.[1]

Fabricated Genealogy

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Torneb%C3%BCe-1

According to the bizarre genealogy of the Fernald family, Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families,< Archive.Org >, by Charles Augustus Fernald, published in 1909, Jean Fernel is described as an ancestor of the Fernald family.

Fernald also changes the surname of Jean Fernel's wife, naming her Magdalene (instead of Madeleine) Luillier, the daughter of Jean Luillier, Lord of Boullencourt and Presles, and a descendant of an Anne Washington. He does name the two daughters as above, but reverses their birth order, naming Magdalene (again instead of Madeleine) as born 1 May 1544 and Maria Fernelius, born 5 September 1546. Though there seems to be no reason to accept these birth dates as factual.

He also names two sons; Francis Fernel, born 3 March 1533 and Joannes Fines or Funel, born 3 February 1535, who both survived to marry and have children of their own, but both of them must be fabrications.

None of Fernald's fabrications can be confirmed by any sources contemporary to the period, although they have proliferated in online genealogies.[2]

Sources

1. WikiTree contributors, "Madeleine (Tornebüe) Fernel (abt.1510-abt.1558)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Torneb%C3%BCe-1 : accessed 12 January 2024).
   1. de Beauvillé, Victor, Histoire de Montdidier, Livre IV - Chapitre II - Section XXVII. Electronic version, http://santerre.baillet.org/communes/montdidier/v2b/v2b4c02b27.php : viewed 2 February 2017.
   2. Cutter, William Richard. American Biography: A New Cyclopedia - Volume 7, American historical society, 1920. Page 329-320. < GoogleBooks >;
   3. Fernald family, Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families,< Archive.Org >, by Charles Augustus Fernald, published in 1909. “Bizarre genealogy.”