♂Jean Canaple

Jean Canaple (died 1 March 1625) was a master glazier who lived and worked in the faubourg Saint-Marcel, the suburb outside the southern walls of Paris, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. He was the ninth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Élisabeth Canappa.

Marriage and family

In 1601 Jean Canaple and Françoise Potardeau, the daughter of the Paris innkeeper Thomas Potardeau, had their marriage contract drawn up in Paris. As a master of his trade Jean took at least one apprentice, under a contract made before a Paris notary. Two daughters are known, most likely both born of this marriage: Élisabeth, who married the master needle-maker Cosme Loupiat of the rue Saint-Honoré before April 1625, and Marguerite, who married Louis Billion, a master glazier like her father.

Death

Jean died on 1 March 1625 at his house in the faubourg Saint-Marcel. On 18 April Françoise, as his widow and as guardian of their under-age children, had a notary draw up an inventory of his goods; Cosme Loupiat attended on behalf of his wife Élisabeth, named as the dead man’s daughter and heir, and as deputy guardian of the younger children. Among the papers listed was a copy, made in 1624, of the 1601 marriage contract. Françoise later married again.

Notes

The records

Jean is known from the Archives nationales’ summaries of acts in the Minutier central, the archive of the Paris notaries. The inventory after his death, dated 18 April 1625, was drawn up in the study of the notary Jean Charles; its summary gives the day of his death, his trade and his house in the faubourg Saint-Marcel, and lists the 1624 copy of the 1601 marriage contract, which names Françoise’s father as Thomas Potardeau, marchand hôtelier. Marguerite is known from the marriage contract of her niece Jeanne Loupiat, Élisabeth’s daughter, on 31 August 1642, at which Louis Billion, master glazier, appeared as the bride’s uncle through his wife Marguerite Canaple. The apprenticeship contract with Jean Canaple, master glazier, and a later act of the same study, catalogued as the acknowledgment of a rente (an annual payment) by his remarried widow, are known from the same archive’s summaries.

The name

The notaries wrote the surname Canaple, de Canaple, Decanaple and Canapé. His daughter appears on this site as Élisabeth Canappa, the spelling of the 2024 abstract of her own daughter’s marriage contract.

Élisabeth’s mother

The 1625 inventory calls Élisabeth the dead man’s daughter and heir, and calls the under-age children the children of Jean and Françoise, but it does not name Élisabeth’s mother. She was already married by April 1625, which fits a daughter born in the first years after the 1601 marriage; a first wife of Jean’s cannot be ruled out. Françoise is therefore most likely, but not certainly, her mother.