The Viljoen coat of arms: a gold saltire on a red shield, beneath a helm crested with a pair of gold eagle's wings seen in profile, with red and gold mantling and a scroll reading Viljoen

Viljoen

Stamouers

  1. a · Stamouers · The founding couple

    Francois Vilion & Cornelia Campenaar

    of Clermont, France · of Middelburg, the Netherlands
    married 17.05.1676 Cape Town

    1. b1

      Pieter

      baptized 07.02.1677 Cape Town

      never married

    2. b2

      Anna

      baptized 19.05.1678 Cape Town

      married 09.12.1691 Heinrich Venter

    3. b3

      Henning

      baptized 19.05.1682 Cape Town

      married 1707 Margaretha de Savoye

      c generation to follow

    4. b4

      Johannes

      baptized 24.09.1684 Cape Town

      married 14.08.1708 Catharina Snyman

      c generation to follow

    5. b5

      Cornelia

      baptized 13.10.1686 Stellenbosch

      married, first 1702 Herculé du Preez, married, second 1722 Christian Maasdorp

    6. b6

      Francina

      baptized 24.04.1689 Stellenbosch

      married Jacob Cloete

born baptized married, x1 and x2 for a first and second marriage died

Numbered in the South African de Villiers/Pama system: a is the stamvader, b1 to b6 his children, and b3c4 the fourth child of b3. The Viljoen name was carried forward through the lines of Henning and Johannes. Names and dates are those of the Viljoen Family Association.

OriginsOorsprong

The Viljoens of South Africa descend from Francois Vilion, a French Huguenot from Clermont who reached Table Bay in 1672, well before the main Huguenot settlement of 1688.

In 1676 he married Cornelia Campenaar of Middelburg in the Netherlands, and from 1682 he farmed Idasvallei near Stellenbosch. Their six children were baptized in Cape Town and Stellenbosch between 1677 and 1689. By the second generation the family name had already taken its present spelling, Viljoen.

The ArmsDie familiewapen

Gules, a saltire Or. Mantling Or and Gules. Crest: a pair of eagle's wings folded Or.

A gold St Andrew's cross on red, derived from the arms of the French family Villon de Varennes. Their crest was a golden mural crown. At the Viljoen Festival of 1976 the Viljoen Family Association voted to replace it with the pair of golden eagle's wings shown above.