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- BIOGRAPHY
Gauthier was the son of Amédée III von Mömpelgard, sire de Montfaucon, and Mathilde, Gräfin von Saarbrücken. With his wife Mahaut, dame de Chaussin et de la Marche, daughter of Jean de Mailly, seigneur de Palis, and Yolande de Chaussin, he had three sons and three daughters, of whom Jean II, Henri I, Girard and Marguerite are recorded with progeny.
On the death of his father, Gauthier inherited the lordship of Vuillafans-le-Neuf and the lands of Orbe and Échallens in the canton of Vaud. In 1304 his brother Jean I died without children, and the lands of Montfaucon reverted to Gauthier. He continued the work of his father to form the lordship of Échallens into a castellany, and later he built other castles on the borders of his lands. In May 1304 Renaud de Bourgogne, Graf von Mömpelgard, and Guillemette von Neuenburg, Gräfin von Mömpelgard, gave him the town of Goumoens on the banks of the Doubs near Maiches, in consideration of several services he had done for them. On the bank of the Doubs, on the hill between the mill of Theusseret and the village of Goumois, he promptly built a castle he called Franquemont. At about the same time he took back from Jean, comte de La-Roche-Saint-Hippolyte, all his holdings on the right bank of the Doubs.
Gauthier died in May 1309.
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