Claudin Ruttan

Abt 1560 - Abt 1613  (~ 53 years)

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• Name	Claudin Ruttan
  Born	Abt 1560	Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1564	Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France
  Reference Number	7602
  Died	Abt 1613	Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France   [2]
  Person ID	I7602	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Florentine Blaise Rutant,   b. Abt 1545, Metz, Nievre, Bourgogne, France ,   d. Abt 1560  (Age ~ 15 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Marguerite Decraon,   b. Abt 1545,   d. Abt 1600  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F2262	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Unknown,   b. Abt 1584, Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France
  Children	+ 1. Claud Ruttan,   b. 19 Oct 1590, Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France ,   d. 2 Sep 1658, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France  (Age 67 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  EXTRACT FROM "10 GENERATIONS OF THE DESCENDANTS OF CLAUDIN RUTTAN" FIRST GENERATION 1. Claudin RUTTAN Furrier was born about 1564 in Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France. Died about 1613 in Saint-Mihiel, Lorraine, France. ORIGINS: "The Ruttan family were huguenots who fled from France after the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572 and went to England, then back to Holland where they amassed a large fortune." (Reaman, 1964 pp. 218-219). ORIGINS: "Dumont, a Judge of Saint-Mihiel, author of Nobiliaraire de Saint-Mihiel, printed in 1864 at Nancy, quotes an earlier author, one Dom Pelletier, who wrote Nobiliiaire de Lorraine, as placing the Rutants among the aristocratic families of France for over a century and as saying that it had been indicated, probably without proof, that the family came from England. Dumont goes on to say that the first of the name in Saint-Mihiel were of the middle class and were entirely engaged in commerce where by there knowledge and energy they prospered. He suggests that the first of the name could have been one Philippe who, in 1506, was a leading draper or cloth merchant. Ferri, said to be a son of Philippe, had a son Jean, who had four sons, Nicolas, Jaques, Jean, and Pierre. Dumont provides biographies of these four and of another member of the family named Florentine, who were enobled by Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, between 1567 and 1599. We are told by Dumont that Jean, in 1554, lent the Town of Saint-Mihiel fifty gold crowns to present to the Duchess of Lorraine and that in 1589 the Abbe of Saint-Mihiel bought from Jaques 'quantities of Buckram and Silk and Gold thread' required by Abbe Merlin for uniforms for his soldiers at the time of the Holy League. Many other Rutants are recorded as being appointed to high civil and military positions. So far as the writer knows, no evidence has been found that proves that the Rutans or Ruttans of America and Canada are direct descendants of the Rutants of Lorraine. But in the final paragraph of his record of Florentine and his family, Dumont states that it was often said that there were in Saint-Mihiel many other Rutants, nobelmen and commoners, who had not been listed in his book for lack of certainty. He mentions one Blaise Rutant, by profession a dealer in trimmings of lace and braid, who being unable to make a living in Saint-Mihiel, obtained permission to move to Metz, which he did in 1608. Dumont adds, 'he was a son of Claude.' Dumont closes by saying that, in 1636 other Rutants, descendants of Ferri, left Saint-Mihiel in order to avoid persecution as Protestants. The earliest documented records of the ancestors of the Rutan or Ruttan family of North america were found in the Saint-Mihiel civil registers of the year 1590 where Claudin Ruttan, furrier, and Catherine, his wife, are recorded as parents of Claude at his baptism on October 19, 1590." (Ruttan, 1986 pp.9-10). He married Catharine about 1584 in France. Catharine was born about 1568 in Saint Mihiel, Meuse, France. They had the following children: +2 i. Blaise RUTTAN +3 ii. Claude RUTTAN

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] Ruttan_Farmily_History.html, Ruttan Family History.html, (Name: online source;). http://www.jgenea.com/Ruttan_Farmily_History.html [S788] 10 Generations of the Descendants of Claudin Ruttan, Unknown.