GIGNILLIAT

Records of this ancient and honorable Huguenot family go back to 1400, in Switzerland. The Gignilliat men included Francois, a Judge at Lausanne, his son who was head of Lausanne in 1610; Jerome ws the Squire of Vevey and of laTour;and Jean Louis, a Judge and a Baliff's Assessor at Vevey.(He was the brother of my direct ancestor Jean Francois Gignilliat)

While a few hundred colonial emigrants from the British Isles could boast royal descents, only a handful from Continental Europe have been found with such descents. This article shows that Jean Francois Gignilliat, an early Swiss settler in South Carolina, also had royal descent, albeit a rather remote one. (source-A South Carolina Royal Descent by Henry B. Hoff) Jean Francois Gignilliat descended from Charlemange, Holy Roman Emperor. I have the lineage directly from" Amorial et Nobiliare de l'Ancien Duche de Savoie" by Comet E. Amedee de Foras, if you are interested in learning more about this royal line.

The GIGNILLIAT Family Line

Armond b. ca. 1411 married ?

Jean b. ? married Marguerite de Radice

Pierre b. ? married Jeanette Rosset

Claude b. 1509 married ?

Jean b. ? married Bonne Torney

Gaspard b. 19 July 1598 married Stephe Seigneux (daughter of Jean and Jeanne de Praroman Seigneux)

Abraham b. 24 Oct 1622 married Marie deVille

Jean Francois b. 17 May 1657 married Susanne LeSerrurier

John b. 1700 married Mary Magdalen DuPre

James b. 30 July 1746 married Charlotte Pepper

Elizabeth b. ? married Col. John Cooper