Joseline Fraselle: Mother of Vincent Kompany

Full name	Joseline Fraselle (also spelled Jocelyne)
Nationality	Belgian
Profession	Employment agent, ORBEM Brussels
Parents	Jean Fraselle and Ginette Gobert
Spouse	Pierre Kompany
Children	Christel, Vincent, and François Kompany
Died	November 2007, after a long illness
Known for	Mother of Vincent Kompany

Joseline Fraselle was a Belgian woman best known as the mother of football manager and former professional player Vincent Kompany. She lived a largely private life, working as an employment agent in Brussels, and declined to seek any public profile of her own. She died in November 2007 after a long illness. Her name appears as Joseline in English-language sources and as Jocelyne in French- and German-language records, including Belgian documents; both spellings refer to the same person.

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Who Was Joseline Fraselle?

Joseline Fraselle was Belgian by birth, and her background is documented most clearly through family records and reporting connected to her son Vincent. German sports reporting from 2007 refers to her directly as “seine Mutter Joseline Fraselle” — his mother Joseline Fraselle — while Vincent Kompany’s own Wikipedia entry uses the French spelling Jocelyne. A Belgian funeral notice for her mother, Ginette Gobert, lists “Jocelyne(+) FRASELLE, sa fille” among the bereaved, and then names Christel, Vincent, and François Kompany as Ginette Gobert’s grandchildren, creating a clear documentary link between Joseline Fraselle and the three Kompany children.

She was, by all accounts, an intensely private person. One football biography notes that she did not like being in the media and would politely refuse interviews whenever they were requested. As a result, almost everything known about her comes through family reporting and her son’s public recollections rather than from any statements she made herself.

Her Work in Brussels

Joseline Fraselle worked as an employment agent at ORBEM, the Brussels public employment service. Before her death she was living in a small village in Hainaut, a province in Wallonia, and made the train journey to Brussels-North every weekend. Her work in public employment services fits with the political outlook her son later described publicly. Vincent Kompany has spoken about his mother’s values and characterised her as a socialist — “borderline communist,” in his own words. That description reflects the worldview she passed on to her children rather than any formal political office she held.

The Fraselle Family

Joseline Fraselle was the daughter of Jean Fraselle and Ginette Gobert. This is confirmed by the Belgian funeral notice for Ginette Gobert, who is identified as the widow of Jean Fraselle. The same notice lists Jocelyne Fraselle as her daughter — marked with a cross to indicate she had already died by the time the notice was published — and names Christel, Vincent, and François Kompany as grandchildren, and Pierre Kompany as son-in-law.

That single document ties together the Fraselle and Kompany sides of the family in a way that no other source does quite so clearly. It confirms not only that Joseline Fraselle was the daughter of Jean and Ginette, but that she was indeed the mother of all three Kompany children.

The Kompany Family

Joseline Fraselle and Pierre Kompany — a Congolese immigrant who later became a Belgian politician and public figure — were together long enough to raise three children. Their daughter Christel Kompany is the eldest, followed by Vincent and then François Kompany. Multiple biographical sources and the Belgian funeral record confirm all three as her children.

Pierre and Joseline later separated, though no primary source gives a clear timeline for when that happened or why. What is clear is that Joseline remained closely involved in her children’s lives. The detail that she made weekend train journeys from Hainaut to Brussels-North to spend time with Vincent speaks to that closeness, even in the period when her health was already declining.

Profiles of the Kompany family on sites such as First Business Mag often highlight the role that both parents played in shaping Vincent Kompany’s values and sense of identity — his father’s story of immigration and political ambition, and his mother’s grounded, working-class Belgian outlook.

Her Death in 2007

Joseline Fraselle died in November 2007 following a prolonged illness. German sports newspaper reports from that time describe how Vincent Kompany learned of her death after a training session and recorded his grief publicly. A follow-up piece from December 2007 noted that Kompany had the initials “JF” — for Joseline Fraselle — displayed on his car as a way of keeping her memory close, the report noting she had died around six weeks earlier. Those German reports remain the strongest contemporary source for the timing of her death.

She was not a public figure in any conventional sense, and she left no recorded interviews or public statements. What survives is the impression she made on her children, a clear family record connecting her to two generations of the Fraselle and Kompany families, and the work she did quietly in Brussels for the people who came through the doors of the public employment service.