The Gometz Family Start Page

As anyone who searches for "Gometz" on the Internet will quickly discover, there are two places in France with that name:

Gometz-la-Ville 48°40'N - 2°07'E, altitude: 162 m./561 ft.
Gometz-le-Châtel 48°41'N - 2°08'E, altitude: 128 m./419 ft.

In the 1962 edition of the Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Quillet both of these were listed as very small places in the province of Seine-et-Oise. Gometz-la-Ville had a population of 337 and Gometz-le-Châtel had 604 inhabitants. The encyclopedia remarked that there was an agricultural school in Gometz-la-Ville and that there were remnants of a "chateau fort" of the 13th century at Gometz-le-Châtel.

(Note: These places are now in Essonne.)

Gometz-le-Châtel has even achieved a fleeting literary mention in a poem, "Présentation de la Bauce à Notre-Dame de Chartres", by Charles Péguy who lived there at one time.

In recent times the area around the two Gometzes has become a suburb of Paris and a center for research and high tech industry. (See the web site for Le District du Plateau de Saclay if you are interested and read French.) There is information for Gometz-le-Châtel on Yahoo France and you can get more information on the general area.

Anyone who does that Internet search for "Gometz", especially in genealogy sites, will also find their browsers loaded with references to Guillaume de Gometz-la-Ferte BURES [William de Gometz] and his daughters Hodierne de Gometz-la-Ferte and Bertrarde du GOMMETS [note the spelling difference]. See, for example, Paul B. McBride's Genealogy. (I have chosen to cite this particular genealogy page because Mr. McBride cites his sources.) These people lived before the era of modern surnames; Guillaume de Gometz means Guillaume "of" or "from" Gometz. Thus, as interesting as this ancient reference is, it carries no genealogical meaning for our modern Gometz family . (However, it may also be of interest if you are one of the thousands of descendants of these people through lines with other surnames).

This page last updated: 7 January 2001

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