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While this should be Antoine de Vulliens (alias Cornu, Cornut, Cornuti, Cornuz, etc.) the elder, some historians seem to believe he was the (other ?) Antoine de Vulliens, the one who was bailli de Vaud in the 1340's.
The subject is complicated. The conclusion of Monique Fontannaz (La ville de Moudon, 2006, see note 241 on fol. 502: ACV Fn 106 fol. 263, 02 apr 1357, and C XVI 30/148, 24 apr 1425 — Antoine Cornu le jeune, bailli de Vaud entre 1342 et 1345, fils de Jean, � distinguer d'Antoine Cornu l'a�n�, fils de Pierre, seigneur de Vulliens) — as to which was which, is taken as sound. However, it is not always obvious which one was intended in a number of documents. Both were called "miles" at one time or another, so attempts to distinguish them by their relative degree of status or nobility are unsuccessful.
The Anthoine de Vulliens alias Cornuti whose claim on various properties later subject to the ch�teau de Moudon is mentioned repeatedly in terriers of the area is frequently called "the elder" (antenatus, senior, etc.) in those sources. There are at least two different scenarios that would occasion this label. First, an opinion attributed to Maxime Reymond in the Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse (vol. 7, 1933) suggests that the first Anthoine de Vulliens, father of the Isabelle de Vulliens who married Pierre de Fernex, seigneur de Lullin, was a member of the city council of Moudon in 1303 and was still alive as late as 1367. In this version, the Anthoine de Vulliens who was bailli de Vaud (intermittently) during the period 1342-1345 was a different man, not necessarily the son of the first. This version would seem to make everyone too old. Anthoine the councillor of 1303 (and the citation for that date has not been found) would not likely achieve this position before reaching the age of majority, and so must have been born before 1278, and possibly much earlier. The Anthoine who was the father of Isabelle was also the father of the Marguerite de Vulliens who married the Nicod or Nicolas de Blonay who died in 1401. However, in spite of the difficulties of the 1303 date, this opinion seems to have been accepted in the article on the de Vulliens family in the online edition of the Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, citing B. Andenmatten, La maison de Savoie et la noblesse vaudoise (XIII3e s.), 2005, which, however, does not delve into the genealogy, but cites some interesting documents regarding the Vulliens family. This online account further states that Antoine Cornu le Vieux was a "parent" (meaning in French, a relative) of Antoine Cornu the bailli de Vaud 1342-1345, and that Antoine the elder ("le Vieux") had married Elinode de Vulliens. One consequence of these statements is that Antoine "the elder", whoever he was, might have acquired the family name de Vulliens through marriage rather than from his father, although it is equally possible that Elinoda was in fact a distant cousin, daughter of some other branch of the de Vulliens family. However, we have not found any document that explicitly states that Elynoda was related to her husband.
A contrary opinion would be that these two Antoines (the father of Isabelle and the bailli de Vaud) are in fact the same person, and that the Antoine who was the councillor in 1303 (whether he was Cornu or de Vulliens by birth) was a different but as yet unidentified person, irrelevant to the problem of the de Blonay connection. Until the source of the date is found, there does not seem to be any other indication of such an early Antoine de Vulliens.
What can we learn from the timeline of Nicolas de Blonay and his wife Marguerite de Vulliens? Nicolas or Nicod de Blonay was first married to Marguerite de Grammont (Grandimonte) about 1356 (assignation de dot). She died no earlier than 1388 (her testament). By 1397, the wife of Nicolas de Blonay was Marguerite de Vulliens (her testament). Marguerite and her sisters Jaquette and Isabelle were heirs of their father Anthoine de Vulliens the elder. Marguerite had previously married Jean Mayor de Lutry, donzel (C XXII NF06754, 14 jan 1385, , where she is his widow; presumably the original of this document is to be sought somewhere in C XX, or else perhaps among papers relating to the priory of Lutry, by matching the date&mdsh; however, no such document has yet been found based on a date search). Jean Mayor had died before 1363 (C XVI 288/11). Jaquette's testament is dated 03 mar 1361 (C IX b 586, donation to the priory of Lutry). Before that, Jaqueta had married Petrus son of Jacobus de Goumoens, Sire de Bioley, on the occasion of which certain documents were deposited with the Fr�res Pr�cheurs de Lausanne. These papers, or at least the copies that remained in the de Goumoens family (ACV P de Goumoens 32, 33, and 34 — the papers were to be returned to the family if Jacobus and his son Petrus should die before Jaqueta and if Jaqueta at that time was survived by one or more living children by Petrus) bear the date of the main document (with the consent of Jaqueta and Petrus) of 28 oct 1354. Petrus had been emancipated in 1339, so he was surely born after 1314, and possibly as late as 1325. At the time of the marriage of Jaqueta and Petrus (apparently 1354, but the summary in the inventory of the ACV is difficult to follow), Anthoine de Vulliens the elder had already died.
Of Elinoda, we found the notice of a bequest (C VIII b 730) by Elyonoda, widow of Anthonius de Vulliens (Willyens), miles antenatus, of censes equivalent to a principal of 100 livres to the abbey of Hautcr�t, redeemable for 100 livres by her two daughters Jaqueta and Isabella, 07 aug 1360. From this, we see that Anthoine the elder had already died by 1360. The description of this item does not include Marguerita, but it is likely that she was already married by 1360, and that she had therefore received her share of her parents' estate as her dowry.
Another document, perhaps bearing on the question of the chronology of two Anthoines, is a sale dated in 1339 (no further information on the date), in the Archives communales de Moudon, M 58 149, by Nicolas Vuarrens and his wife and sons, to Jaques Paczod clerc de Moudon, the censes payable to "Antoine Cornut seigneur de Vulliens chevalier" and another to "Antoine Vulliens l'a�n� chevalier". Whatever the exact language in the document itself (it was certainly in Latin, not French), the terminology establishes that, as early as 1339, there was already the possibility of confusion between two adult Anthoines, one termed "the elder", and that both were alive at that time.
Regarding the circumstances by which Anthoine Cornut, chevalier, had acquired his interest in the various properties that are the subject of so many terriers, another document in the Archives communales de Moudon (M 58, 2139, dated in 1514), notes that a later Noble Jean de Blonay (son of Georges) was at that time the latest in his family to inherit from the estate of Anthoine Cornut, to whom Louis de Savoie, seigneur de Vaud, had sold certain censes owed to him (Louis de Savoye) by individuals, among others, those relating to a mill on the M�rine, entre le bois du Devens au nord, et la c�te Enversaz, devers vent, lieu-dit � l'Aiguage (Aquagio) de la M�rine, which "easements" had been vacant for a long time, then partly reconstructed by the late Claude de la Cour, but without paying the required censes to the de Blonay family. But from the language of the terriers, it was not the case that the de Blonay family had simply "inherited" these rights. Rather, they had made a claim on them (cause ayant), a claim that evidently succeeded, adjudicated or at least accepted in their favor. The claim by the de Blonay family would have to involve the fact that Marguerite de Vulliens, daughter of Anthoine Cornut de Vulliens the elder, should have brought with her into the marriage to Nicod de Blonay, as her dowry or estate, her share of the estate of Antoine the elder. It is also possible that the de Blonay family claimed that additional sums were owed to them by Anthoine�s heirs as a result of a loan or some other financial transaction. Louis de Savoie, the one who figures in this story, is Louis II, son of Louis I. Louis II succeeded his father as Sire de Vaud in 1302, and died in 1349. If there exists today a document in which Louis de Savoie conveys rights, censes, or property to Anthoine Cornut or to the Vulliens family, it does not seem to have surfaced. Its date and exact terms would be extremely useful in establishing the chronology of the various claims on the fiefs in the vicinity of Moudon. It could well be similar to a transaction between Louis de Savoie and Girard de Disy in 1339 (see Fn 330).
Additional documents referenced: C XXII NF13616, 10 dec 1356, various items, clausule de testament d�Antoine Cornu de Vuillens, chevalier, also with reconnaissance by Jean de Blonay 21 feb 1464 for debt to the Hospital of St. Jean de J�rusalem at Moudon, formerly bequeathed by feu Jean de Vuillens, chanoine de Gen�ve, brother of the said late Anthoine Cornu de Vuillens. Translating back into the original Latin, this would have to be Antoine the younger, designated as "miles". The original document, of which NF13616 is a brief summary in an inventory, appears to be C XX 207/47, with dates 10 dec 1356 to 21 feb 1464 (not yet examined). The bequest from his brother Jean de Vulliens is found in Archives Communales de Moudon, M 58, 190, dated 17 apr 1342, "I, ffeu le donzel I de Vulliens, chanoine de Gen�ve, l�gue � l'h�pital St-Jean de J�rusalem, de Moudon, une cense de 2 sous payable par son fr�re le chevalier Antoine Cornu, de Vulliens." The two men called "I" are both Johannes, father and son. That document should be referenced (and either summarized copied) somewhere in the terriers for the hospital, but it has not yet been located.
Also, C XV 7/40, 22 jan 1346/1347 ? (ref. Aa 29/1/II pp. 386-387, and p. 398), arbitrage between the de Montagny family and the universal heirs of Richard de Prez, who are named in the inventory of the ACV as follows: Antoine Cornu de Vulliens chevalier (but see below, this must be Antoine the younger), Rodolphe de Vulliens son frere, Johannod and Mermet freres, fils de Jean de Prez donzel, and Rolet de Prez. However, it is not completely clear from the description whether Antoine and Rodolphe are among those universal heirs, but the subject of the dispute involves rights sold by the de Montagny family to Richard de Prez with the right of redemption. This question is resolved, at least in part, in other documents, but note that Rodolphe is called Rolet in what follows.
More explicitly, C II 78, 25 sep 1346, Obligation de Louis de Savoie, seigneur de Vaud, pour la somme de 445 livres lausannoises, en raison du reste du compte de feu Richard de Prez, ch�telain de Rue, en faveur des nobles suivants, h�ritiers dudit Richard. Assavoir, pour une moiti� de la somme, suscrite, en faveur de Vulliens (Antoine Cornut, de Vulliens, chevalier, et Rolet de Vulliens, son fr�re, chevalier, pour deux tiers, Vuillelme, ffeu Girard de Vulliens, chevalier, et les autres enfants m�les dudit Girard pour un tiers — the proportions of the division suggest that Antoine, Rolet, and Girard were brothers, but that Girard had died, leaving several sons, of whom Vuilliermus was likely the oldest) et l'autre moiti� en faveur des de Pr�z (Rolet et Etienne fr�re et fils de feu dom Pierre de Prez, chevalier, pour un quart, Johannod, Mermet et Perrod, fr�re et fils (?) de Jean de Prez, donzel, pour l'autre quart). L'int�r�t annuel de la somme, soit 22 livres 5 sous de cense annuelle � payer aux h�ritiers dudit Richard de Prez, est assign�: 1� Sur la messeillerie de la paroisse de Promasens pour 9 livres lausannoises de cens payables � la Saint-Andr�. 2� Sur la ferme de la messeillerie de Porsel, pour 50 sous lausannois de cense annuelle payables au terme pr�dit. 3� Sur toutes les tailles dudit Louis de Savoie ri�re la ch�tellenie de Rue, pour 10 livres 15 sous lausannois de cense... Notaire Jaques de Saint-Rambert. Sceau de Louis de Savoie manquant." This account shows that the estate of Richard de Prez (devolving to his universal heirs), was divided as follows: 1/2 to three members of the Vulliens family (Anthoine Cornut, Rolet or Rodulphe his brother, and the sons of the late Girard, presumably their late brother), 1/4 to the sons of the late Pierre de Prez, and 1/4 to the sons of the late Jean de Prez. From the values listed, the loan was financed at 5% simple interest, and the interest payments were guaranteed on a small number of separate incomes in the district of Rue held by Louis II de Savoie, none of them involving the known fiefs of the Vulliens family. In other words, the income from the debt originally owed to Richard de Prez, even if Antoine the younder had bought out his brother and nephews, would amount to no more than 11 livres annually, and would not concern any of the properties in the district of Moudon in the series of terriers from Ab 6 to Fn 27, where certain censes are payable to the heirs of Antoine Cornu de Vulliens the elder.
It is believed that Richard de Prez, who was survived by his widow, Noble Dame Bonarein, Bovaren, Bonarem, Bonarent etc. de Ch�tel, at least until 1366 (C XVI 215/5), had no children — among other reasons, that bulk of his estate went instead to the de Vulliens family and to some of the de Prez relatives. Bonarent was also, some years later, the widow of Anthoine de Vulliens the younger. Citations of this woman include: PP 637 V/8/1/007bis, 03 jan 1374, Partage de l'hoirie de Bonarein de Ch�tel et de Richard de Prez, par Jean de Blonay, chevalier, en son nom et au nom de Catherine de Vuillens, son �pouse, Guillaume, Pierre et Richard de Vuillens, d'une part, et Jean, Aymon et Yanny de Prez, donzels, d'autre part, tous h�ritiers des biens sp�cifi�s dans l'acte, notaire: Girard Choupar, de Moudon, sceau annonc� de Humbert de Colombier, bailli de Vaud. PP 219/1, 14 feb 1351, Guillaume, fils et h�ritier de feu Perronet Patin, de Chillon, doit 20 livres lausannoises � dame Bonarent, veuve de Richard de Prex et �pouse de noble Antoine Cornut, seigneur de Vulliens. La dette provient du non paiement d'une rente annuelle et perp�tuelle de 3 muids de vin ou de mo�t, mesure de Vevey, due sur une vigne et une maison sises � Veytaux. Antoine Cornut, qui repr�sente sa femme, obtient restitution de la vigne et de la maison par acte du 27 janvier 1351, puis il met le bien fonds en vente. L'ench�re a lieu � Chillon, sur la place publique, entre le ch�teau et la maison de feu Hugonod Patin, une premi�re fois le 6 f�vrier 1351. L'unique amateur offrant 20 livres du bien fonds grev� de rente est Perrodus de Granges, clerc, bourgeois de Vevey. Le d�biteur est inform� de la vente. Une semaine plus tard, le 13 f�vrier, nouvelle mise en vente au m�me endroit. Antoine Cornut et sa femme sont repr�sent�s par Perrod Antoine. Perrodus de Granges maintient son offre. Le 14 f�vrier1351, � Villeneuve [la suite manque]. (This item proves that Bonarent, had remarried to Anthoine Cornut at least by 1351. The role of Catherine, wife of Jean de Blonay, in this dispute is noteworthy. She would not be involved, we think, unless she had some claim in her own right to the estate of Richard de Prez, and that situation strongly implies that she was an heir, along with Guillaume, Pierre, and Richard de Vuillens, of one or more of the parties named in the testament of Richard de Prez. Catherine is known from other sources to be the daughter of Am�d�e de Vulliens, the same Am�d�e who was the son of Anthoine de Vuilliens the younger, the one whose testament was dated in 1356 and whose (Antoine's) universal heirs were his sons Pierre and Am�d�e, and whose bequest to the chapel of St. Jean de J�rusalem at Moudon later involved Jean, seigneur de Blonay, comme h�ritier et tenant des biens de feu Anthoine Cornu de Vuillens, chevalier. To reconcile the estates of Jaqueta, Marguerita, and Isabella with the status of Pierre and Am�d�e as universal heirs, we would have to suppose that the daughters had already received their shares of their paternal estate in their dowries.)
The explanation for these facts is found in a long note by Fran�ois Ducrest, based on communications by the Abb� Gremaud and the archivist of Fribourg, Schneuwly, as well as the archives of Fribourg and the cartularies of Rue and Promassens, in the author�s possession, Note compl�mentaire sur Richard de Prez, in Revue d'histoire eccl�siastique suisse 2:293-296, related to an article preceding it, in Italian, concerning Richard�s service and death during the Crusades. Richard de Prez was the son of Etienne de Prez and his wife Alexie (she died by 1313, at which time Richard and his brother Jean appear to have reached the age of majority). Richard had an aunt Agnes de Prez who married Jean de Vulliens. Richard married Bonarein de Ch�tel, but they had no children (or at least, none survived or are mentioned in any source, although one account, by the baron of Estavayer, gives him three illegitimate sons). He made a testament 14 fev 1345 before leaving for the Crusade. He died on the island of Negrepont. Having no living children at that time, evidently, his universal heirs included various nephews and other relatives, with his wife as usufruct. Among his debtors was Louis de Savoie. He asked for burial at the abbey of Hautcr�t, although it is not known if his remains were ever transported there after burial on Negrepont. His donation to the abbey carried the promise of a daily mass at the alter of Ste.-Croix in that abbey. He died in 1346.
The widow Bonarein made her first testament 06 apr 1348, mentioning her brother Jaques de Ch�tel. A little later (certainly before 1352), she remarried to a 'cousin' (the source of this term is not specified), Antoine Cornu, chevalier, who had been ch�telain de Rue when Richard de Prez was away for the Crusade. She made other testaments in 1359 (in favor of the convent of Part-Dieu in Estavayer-le-Lac), and again in 1369 and 1373. The testament of 06 apr 1348 is apparently the same one discussed under the name Bonarent de Ch�tel-St-Denis (citation indicates Arch. Cant. Frib., Part-Dieu, l 12) in an article by Dom Albert Courtray, "Les personnages de la maison de Corbi�res qui se sont donn�s � l'�glise", Revue d'histoire eccl�siastique suisse 16:52-65 (1922). The parentage of Bonarent is not given directly, but she was evidently a niece of the chanoine Guillaume de Ch�tel-St-Denis. Among the genealogies of Hubert de Vevey on doc.rero.ch, there is one for de Fruence et de Chastel (Ch�tel-Saint-Denis), BCU ms. L 1935/5. We know from documents in the terriers of Vaud that Bonarent had a brother Jaques, and from the information above, that she must have been a nephew of Guillaume (or Vuillielme). The genealogy does not reveal her parentage directly, but it is clear that the Jaques in question must be #50 in the genealogy, Jaquier (d. 1378), son of Hudric (who is thus presumably the father of Bonarem; this Hudric or Uldric is not identified with any certainty in the genealogy). De Vevey seems not to have made use of the ACV, so it is possible that more can be learned about this family from the more recent inventories. Of note is that the impression of the seal of Bonarein still exists (AEF, apparently) and it combines the arms of Ch�tel and Vulliens. Whether this seal predates her marriage with Anthoine de Vulliens is not certain from the accounts we have discovered so far. Further (ACV C XVI 188/2 CXXII NF08388, 09 jun 1343), a clear impression of the seals of Louis de Savoie sire de Vaud, Anthoine Cornuz de Wulliens bailli de Vaud (thus presumably the younger), and Louis de Neuch�tel are said to exist on a document by which Aymon, Seigneur de Montagny, appoints Richard de Prez as ch�telain de Montagny. Can the seal of the other Anthoine Cornuz be identified?
P Loys 2275, 19 mar 1327, Concession octroy�e par Louis de Savoie, sire de Vaud, � Antoine dit Cormi (error for Cornu!), de Vulliens, concernant l'acquisition de divers cens, notamment � Sottens, � M�zi�res et � Servion. This should be Antoine the elder ?
PP 637 V/8/1/004 bis, 04 jul 1336, sale by Guillaume de Blonay, ch�telain de Vaulruz, and his wife Mermette, in favor of Richard de Prez, for 1/2 of the "d�mes per�ues sur le territoire de Chavannes-sur-Moudon, pour le prix de 120 livres lausannoises". . ACV Fn 106, Extraits d'actes en faveur de biens eccl�siastiques, bailliage de Moudon, compiled 1563, fol. 263-275v, copy of the foundation of the chapel of St. Anthony Confessor, fond�e en l'eglise de Nostre Dame de Mouldon, by Dominus Anthonius de Vuillens miles, mentioning his wife Bonnarem Castellano (=de Castel, de Ch�tel, etc.), dated 02 apr 1357. (This is Antoine the younger.)
Thus, we seem to have two contemporary men of the same name, Anthonius de Vulliens, one leaving a widow Elynoda , the other a widow Bonarent or similar. The first of these, with his wife Elynoda and daughters Jaqueta, Marguerita, and Isabella, must certainly be the one designated "the elder", in order for the properties in the terriers for the district of Moudon to have descended through Isabella, and through Marguerita and perhaps also the de Blonay family. And the other, presumably the younger Anthonius de Vulliens, with his widow Bonarenta, must have been the one who held various offices at Rue and Moudon in the 1340's and 1350's, leaving sons Pierre and Am�d�e by his (first ?) wife.
However, as the Anthoine who was associated with Richard de Prez seems to be Anthoine the younger, the one who married Richard's widow, Bonarent, and who, presumably, was in the best position to inherit various assets, including rights to the remainder of a large debt that Louis II de Savoie owed to Richard de Prez, the source of the rights of Antoine the elder must have resulted from other transactions that remain to be explained.
An article in the Archives h�raldiques suisses 70:49-52 (1956), Ad. Decollogny, "Dans la chapelle de Ropraz", describes a sort of heraldic history of the seigneurie of Ropraz, painted in the choir of the chapel of that village in 1764, as part of the reconstruction of that chapel in 1761. The history begins with the foundation of this chapel in 1282 by Jean de Vulliens, chevalier, seigneur de Ropraz et de Carojoz. The article notes that his seal from 1316 is known, and that he was active at Moudon. His son Girard de Vulliens, donzel, was granted Ropraz as a separate seigneurie by his father. Girard was among the "conseillers" for the hospital of Moudon. Pierre, son of Girard, became the next seigneur de Ropraz in 1354, and was associated with the Comte Vert at Cl�es and Jougne in 1365.
Next in the line of the seigneurs of Ropraz comes Pierre de Fernex and "Fanchette" de Vulliens. The author explains this as follows: "Pierre de Vulliens �tant mort sans post�rit�, sa soeur Isabelle-Fanchette, dame de Ropraz, �pousa en 2es) noces Pierre Fernex, seigneur de Lullin en Genevois, en 1369. Elle avait en outre des droits importants au ch�teau de Moudon." Isabelle and Pierre de Fernex had a son Fran�ois who succeeded them as seigneur de Ropraz in 1415. He inherited from his mother a large house in Moudon, officially the Ch�teau de Carrouge, which, in 1956, housed a well-known school for deaf-mutes. He also inherited the seigneuris of Vulliens, S�pey, Villangeaux and a part of the seigneurie of Chapelle. Fran�ois had no children, however, and so the seigneurie passed in 1419 to Guillermette de Fernex, his sister, widow of Thomas de Gen�ve, seigneur de Lullin, who son Aymon de Gen�ve was then the last bailli de Vaud under the house of Savoie. The seigneurie was then sold to the Glannaz family and changed hands several times. By 1764, it was in the hands of the Clavel family. Here again, there is apparent confusion: Isabelle-Fanchette, dame de Ropraz, is said to be the sister of the Pierre de Vulliens (son of Girard) who died without issue. But Isabelle was the daughter of Antoine the elder and Elynoda, not the daughter of Girard de Vulliens, who was a brother ? of Antoine the younger. The account cited here says that it was from Pierre de Vulliens, son of Girard, that Isabelle acquired her title to the fief of Ropraz, and that, in addition, she had important rights or holdings at Moudon. So, at least according to this version, the properties at Moudon had apparently come to Isabelle by a different route, and it was only the rights at Ropraz that had come from Pierre de Vulliens. If it were the case that Pierre was the last surviving descendant of Girard, and that Rolet or Rodulphe, brother of Girard had also died without heirs, and that no heirs of Anthoine the younger remained, it could be quite logical for Isabelle, one of the last of the de Vulliens, to end up with Ropraz. Did Girard actually have a son Pierre and a daughter Isabelle ? It is possible that the title to Ropraz passed from Girard to a nephew Pierre, perhaps Pierre son of Antoine the younger ? But if that were the solution, then how was Isabelle, daughter of Antoine the elder, involved in this scenario? If Pierre son of Antoine the younger had died without heirs, his estate would most naturally have gone to his brother Am�d�e, or to Catherine daughter of Am�d�e. The descent of the title to Ropraz, then, seems to present difficulties that the known genealogies do not resolve. Why would it have gone to Isabelle, from a different branch of the family, rather than to Catherine?
Some of the essential documents were located by Monique Fontannaz in preparation for her volume on La ville de Moudon (Les monuments d'art et d'histoire du canton de Vaud, tome VI, 2006. These include: C XVI 30/148, 24 apr 1425, relating to the foundation of the altar of St. Anthony Confessor (and Mme. Fontannaz notes that this chapel was founded by Antoine Cornu le jeune, son of Jean, to be distinguished from Antoine the elder, son of Pierre and seigneur de Vulliens); C XX 207/52, 02 oct 1360, foundation of an altar in honor of Saint Marguerite by Am�d�e, son of Antoine, also C XX 207/93, 17 juin 1398; additional foundations etc. IB 37/64, 25 jan 1358, and C XX 207/50, 09 and 11 sep 1360.
A trace of the brother of Anthoine the younger is found in Archives Communales de Moudon, M 58, 190, dated 17 apr 1342, "I, ffeu le donzel I de Vulliens, chanoine de Gen�ve, l�gue � l'h�pital St-Jean de J�rusalem, de Moudon, une cense de 2 sous payable par son fr�re le chevalier Antoine Cornu, de Vulliens." The two men called "I" are both Johannes, father and son.
A possible financial connection between the de Vulliens and de Blonay families might have arisen from ACV PP 637 V/9/1/013, 02 may 1355, a mandate (from Am�d�e VI de Savoie ?) to Anthonius Cornut de Vuillens (the younger), castellanus de Rota, to pay 100 livres per year to Johannes de Blonay, ballivus de Vuaud, during his tenure in that office. If any part of that salary had not been paid or was still owed upon the death of Anthonius de younger, would the heirs of this Johannes de Blonay have a claim on his estate? PP 637 V/9/1/014 is a fragment of the accounts for the balliage of Moudon for 1356-1357.
Also possibly of interest, PP 637 V/10/0/013, 1404-1406, "comptes de tous les cens et recettes re�us par le Seigneur Jean de Blonay et dame Catherine (eius consores) sur leurs possessions � Moudon, Bussy, Oulens, Sottens, Villars-Mendraz, Thierrens, Dommartin, Vucherens, Hermenches ... pendant 5 ans, 29 pages.
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