Contrat de mariage entre Pierre JACOB et Suzenne DEVOS, le 03/07/1667, à Guînes

Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais - cote 4 E 76/119

Wedding. Folio 35. In front of the notaries and royal tabellions resident and established in Guisnes and countries reconquisited undersigned. Pierre Jacob, husbandman, residing at Offequerque, son of Fremin Jacob and Margueritte de Nyelle, was his father and mother, a native of Vieille Esglise, and about twenty-seven years of age, on the one hand; And Suzenne Devos, a young girl to marry, daughter of Jean de Vos and Suzenne Absolon, her father and mother, a native of [N ...] / Esglise and aged about twenty-one years old ; Assisted, knowing, the said Pierre Jacob: of his said father and mother, of Jean Denin on account of Marie Jacob, and of his sister Jeanne Jacob; And the said Suzenne de Vos, similarly assisted by her father and mother, of Jean, Marie and Eslizabeth de Vos, her brothers and sisters, and Pierre de Vos, her uncle on the paternal side. The above-named Pierre Jacob and Suzenne de Vos, with their good intentions, without constraint, inductions or seductions, acknowledged and declared, with the consent of their said relatives and friends, and they, on this well advised and warned, that to arrive at the Treaty and marriage alliance among themselves talks, having made, will make and make by agreement the agreements, treaties, gifts and / ports and marriage benefits that ensue. That is to say, that the future bride and bridegroom have promised and promised each other, by their solemn faith and oath, to take as husband and wife, wife and loyal wife, at the first will and requisition of the other, One or the other, provided that it is the pleasure of God. For which marriage to come, and previously no bond in it, it was declared on the part of the said Pierre Jacob, future spouse, and declared that it belongs to him and that it has in his possession the value of five hundred livres, Have been appraised several movable goods, consisting of cattle, green grains, and other things, which serve him in his household as a plowman, to which he is now occupied, which he promises to bring to the said marriage. And on behalf of the said Suzenne Devos, the said Jean de Vos and Suzenne Absolon, his father and mother, in favor of the said marriage, submitted themselves and obliged to pay by advance of hoard and on their future estates to their said daughter, The sum of two hundred and seventy livres, as soon as the said marriage is completed, besides clothed it and other things, thus and as they will wish to have honor. By means of which the married shall be and shall remain united and common in all movable property, acquests, and real conquests, which they shall make and acquire during the said marriage. And when the said marriage was dissolved by the death of the said Jacob, formerly the said of Vos, in this case, whether there be children or not of the said marriage, it shall have by precipitate and without debt charges all his clothes, linen, and jewels serving his body; And by renouncing to the said community the sum of ninety pounds to be taken from the clearest property and moneys of the said community, with his customary right of dower over the inheritances and immovables of the said Jacob, To take and apprehend her right and half of the said community by paying half the debts thereof. And, on the contrary, when the said De Vos predeceases her future husband by death, or that there are children or the name of the marriage, he will also have all his clothes, arms, and a cavalry which he will have for that moment . All of these conditions have been accepted by the said bride and groom; And ceasing which one or the other of such marriage would not take perfection or accomplishment, at the cost of all costs, damages and interest; Promising and so on, obliging and so forth, giving up and so on.

Done, passed and acknowledged at Guisnes, on Sunday, the third of July, MVIc, sixty-seven, and signed. Pierre Jacob. Mark of said Suzenne de Vos. Mark of the said Jacob Fremin. Mark of the said Jean Devos. Jan Denai [n]. Mar. Jacob. Mark of the said Jeanne Jacob. Mark of said Suzenne Absolon. Mark of the said Devos Stone. Jean of Vos. Mark of said Eslizabette de Vos. Mark of the said Marie de Vos. Saarland. Denoeufville.