Notes:

Marie-Marguerite-Anne Mius d'Entremont married Pierre in 1665, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of the following:

1) Philippe-Charles (1666-1744) md Catherine-Marie Dugas
2) Cecile (1668-1753) md Jean Landry
3) Pierre (1670-1752) md Marie-Rosalie Blanchard
4) Marie-Madeleine (1673-1714) md Germain Landry
5) Marguerite (1676-1744) md Alexandre Bourg
6) Elisabeth (1679-1718) md (1) Pierre-Alain Bujold and (1) Rene Leblanc
7) Jean (1681-) md Marguerite Dugas
8) Madeleine-Catherine (1683-) md Louis-Simon LePoupet
9) Anne-Marie (1686-) md Thomas-Jacques Jacob
10) Paul-Pierre (1691-) md Marie Theriault

Marie married Pierre Melanson Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Pierre (son of Pierre Melanson and Priscilla Melanson) was born 1632, Yorkshire, England; died 1720, Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France; was buried 1720, Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Marguerite Melanson was born Abt 1676, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France; died 15 Jul 1744, Acadia, New France; was buried 16 Jul 1744, Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia , Canada.
2. Paul-Pierre Melanson was born 1686, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1774, Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States.
3. Jean Dominique Melanson was born 1681, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 23 Nov 1760, France.
4. Marie Madeleine Melancon was born About 1673, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 15 Jul 1744, Saint Gabriel, Iberville, Louisiana, United States or St Charles, Mines, Canada.
5. Pierre Melanson was born 1670, Acadia, New France; died 1751, Acadia, New France.
6. Isabelle Melanson was born 1679, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 1679, Saint-Charles des Mines, Grand Pre, Acadia, New France; died About 1719, Acadia, New France.
7. Philippe-Charles Melancon was born 1666, St Charles Des Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 24 Jun 1744, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Saint-Charles-des-Mines Grand Pré, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada .

Notes:

Baron Mius d'Entremont was born in Cherbourg, Normandy and came from a longtime noble family. He was brought to Acadia with his family in 1651, by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. The governor in July 1653 awarded him one of the few fiefs to constitute territory in North America, the Barony of Poboncoup, extending from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth), and in 1670 appointed him lieutenant-major and commander of the king's troops, and procureur du roi (crown attorney), which post he retained until 1687.

One year after the foundation of this barony, in 1654, Major Robert Sedgewick of Massachusetts made his pass through Acadian lands, initially seizing de La Tour's fort in Saint John and taking him captive, finally devastating the settlements of Port-Royal, Pentagoët and La Hève, but not that of Pobomcoup. During the English occupation, which lasted until the treaty of Bréda in 1667, Philippe Mius d'Entremont was nowhere to be found. His whereabouts would not be known until the census of 1671 when he surfaced in Pobomcoup with his family that included four children, namely Jacques, Abraham, Philippe and Madeleine. The census specifies that the head of family, Mius d'Entremont, had six arpents of land in tillage, 26 horn cattle, 29 ewes, 12 goats and 20 pigs.

d'Entremont was important to the colony's history as an administrator, and because he promoted agriculture on his seigneury. The settlement and d'Entremont's residence were established at Pubnico, the modern spelling of Poboncoup.

Source: Wikipedia

The family of Philippe MIUS and Madeleine ÉLIE:

MIUS, Philippe, sieur d'Entremont, Royal protonotary (1686) (protonotaire du roi (1686), born about 1609 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died fin 1700 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie)

Married about 1649, from Normandie (province) (France, known area)
ÉLIE, Madeleine, born about 1626 (rec. 1671) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died between census 1671 and census 1678 Port-Royal (Acadie)

1) Marguerite, born about 1650 (rec. 1686) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died after census 1714 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie), married about 1665 Pierre MELANÇON dit LAVERDURE

2) Jacques, born about 1654 (rec. 1671) or 1659 (rec. 1686), married about 1678 Anne LATOUR

3) Abraham, born about 1658 (rec. 1671) or 1662 (rec. 1686), married about 1676 Marguerite de SAINT-ÉTIENNE de LATOUR

4) Philippe, born about 1660 (rec. 1671) or 1662 (rec. 1686), married about 1678 .., married about 1687 Marie ..

5) Madeleine, born about 1669 (rec. 1671) or 1670 (rec. 1686)

http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/086/086987.php

Philippe's patronymic name was not d'Entremont, but Mius, probably of Germanic origin, from the word majus, maius or mius. However, the name of d'Entremont was added to the patronymic surname Mius. The historical connection is as follows, dating back to the French Wars of Religion and the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572:

Nicolas Mius was killed at the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murdered at the side protecting Gaspard de Coligny. Gaspard's wife, Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont (16 February 1541 - 17 December 1599) was a French noblewoman and only daughter and heiress of the Savoyard family of Montbel d'Entremont who has many fiefs in Savoy, Bresse, Bugey and Piedmont.

After Jacqueline's husband's murder, the Countess felt indebted to the children of Nicolas Mius. Jacqueline took under her protection a son of Nicolas. (Unfortunately, there is no record of his first name.) The boy was actually under the care of Jacqueline?s mother, the Countess Beatrice d?Entremont of the House of Montbel d?Entremont of Savoie.

THE NAME OF 'd'ENTREMONT" was THEN added to his surname "MIUS". This was Jacqueline?s wish, since she was the only child who survived her parents' marriage, and had only a daughter from her marriage to the Admiral. The following clause appears in the marriage contract between the Admiral and Jacqueline:

The following clause appears in the marriage contract between the Admiral and Jacqueline:

"The first son originating from the marriage and his descendants, whether male or female, would carry the name and coat of arms of Count D'Entremont" (Jacqueline's father). The name of d'Entremont is an adopted name, probably from the grandfather who would have adopted Jacqueline d'Entremont, Nicolas Mius having died at the side of Jacqueline's husband Gaspard de Coligny at St-Barthelmy."


Philippe Mius d'Entremont arrived in Acadia with his wife and daughter about 1651, as adjutant to Governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour and commandant in the colony during the latter's absence. He received, jointly with Pierre Ferrand, by letters patent from La Tour dated 17 Jul 1653, the fief of Pobomcoup, at Cape Sable. in 1670, he became King's attorney.

On 20 Jul 1684, in his capacity as attorney, he signed an order of the King that was registered at Port-Royal. On 5 Oct 1687 he signed an attestation in favor of the accomplishments of Governor d'Aulnay. in 1688 he was replaced as attorney by Pierre Chenet Dubreuil who had received the retainer for the office on 23 Sep 1687.

A deposition by Sr. de Tenville (sic for Tienville), taken before Mathieu de Goutin on 31 Jul 1699, related to statements of Sr. d'Entremont, residing at Les Mines, concerning the boundaries of Acadia.
A letter from Mathieu de Goutin to the Minister on 23 Dec 1707 contained the following: "Sr. Philippe Mius d'Entremont, a native of Normandy, who died seven years ago at the age of ninety-nine years and some months, with all his teeth, had been adjutant under the late M. de la Tour, governor of this country. He had since been obliged to carry out the duties of King's attorney for eighteen years, and had only left off because of his great age."?

MIUS (Muis) D?ENTREMONT, PHILIPPE, esquire, first baron of Pobomcoup (Pubnico), near Cap de Sable, lieutenant-major, king?s attorney, settler, the first of the d?Entremonts of Nova Scotia; b. c. 1601 (or 1609) in Normandy (probably at Cherbourg); d. c. 1700 (or 1701).

According to Placide Gaudet, the Norman Philippe Mius was related by marriage to the Bourbon family and was made Sieur d?Entremont by Louis XIV; but according to a descendant, H. Léandre d?Entremont, the titles of nobility are said to go back to the 11th century in Savoy, and a branch of the Savoy family is thought to have emigrated to Normandy during the 16th century. In 1649 the Sieur d?Entremont married Madeleine Hélie (or Élie) Du Tillet (b. 1626). He was then a captain in a regiment. It was in 1650 (Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 329) or 1651 (R. Le Blant) that he, with his wife and a daughter, were brought to Acadia by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, a childhood friend, as lieutenant-major and commander of the king?s troops. To reward him for his services, La Tour offered d?Entremont in 1651 or 1653 the letters patent of the Pobomcoup fief, as a barony. The feudal rights conferred upon the baron a territory stretching from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth). The feudal castle was built near the entry to the natural harbour of Pubnico, on the east side.

D?Entremont played an important part in the colony?s history both because of what he did as an administrator and because he was one of the rare Acadian seigneurs to concern himself with cultivation and with clearing land; he attracted to his estate ?several indentured workers and a few families from Port-Royal [now Annapolis Royal, N.S.] and this seigneury eventually formed a small centre of population.?

Besides their daughter whom they had brought from France, the d?Entremonts had four children who were born on Acadian soil: two of their sons, Jacques, b. 1659, and Abraham, de Plemazais (or Plemarch), b. 1661 or 1662, married respectively Anne and Marguerite, the daughters of Governor Charles de La Tour and Jeanne Motin; the third son, Philippe, whose life is more difficult to piece together, evidently married a daughter of Jean-Vincent d?Abbadie* de Saint-Castin. As for the daughters, Marie-Marguerite, born in France, married Pierre Melanson, dit La Verdure [see Charles Melanson]; the other, Madeleine, seems to have remained a spinster.
Around 1670, at the time when the Treaty of Breda was being put into force, Governor Andigné de Grandfontaine was establishing himself at Pentagouet on the Penobscot. D?Entremont was named king?s attorney, an office which he held for 18 years despite his advanced age. We know of reports which were made by Mius d?Entremont and Jacques Bourgeois* on the subject of the Acadian frontiers, and sent to the minister, Pontchartrain, by Joseph Robinau de Villebon. Towards the end of his life d?Entremont left his seigneurial estate, bequeathing the title of baron to his eldest son Jacques, and went to settle at Port-Royal with his wife and two of his children. He died at the end of 1700 or the beginning of 1701, a venerable patriarch more than 90 years old.

According to tradition it was at Port-Royal that he died, but Léandre d?Entremont indicates Grand-Pré, where d?Entremont may have gone to reside with his daughter Marie-Marguerite Melanson, as the more likely place of death. Philippe Mius d?Entremont has left a large number of descendants in Acadia; the barony of Pobomcoup remained in the family until the expulsion of the Acadians; and after more than three centuries some hundred families of the same name can still be counted at Pubnico.

Clément Cormier
Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 134, 329. Recensement de 1686 (Acadie). Placide Gaudet, notes preserved in the PAC and at the Université de Moncton; études published in Moniteur Acadien (Shediac, N.B.), 17 Dec. 1886, 11 and 25 Jan. 1887. George S. Brown, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: a sequel to Campbell?s history (Boston, 1888), 151?52. A. Cameron, study published in the Halifax Herald, 1 Jan. 1886, of which the translation was published in the Moniteur Acadien, 21 Jan. 1886; see also issues of 7, 14 Jan. 1886, 17 Dec. 1886, 11 Jan. 1887. H. L. d?Entremont, The Baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians, a history of the ancient ?Department of Cape Sable,? now known as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia (Yarmouth, 1931); The forts of Cape Sable of the seventeenth century (n.p., 1938); study on the genealogy of the Acadian families of Yarmouth county, published in the Yarmouth Herald beginning 20 Feb. 1940. Robert Le Blant, ?Les trois mariages d?une Acadienne, Anne d?Entremont (1694?1778),? NF, VII (1932), 211. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, II, 320. P.-G. Roy, ?Les marquisats, comptés, baronnies et châtellenies dans la Nouvelle-France,? BRH, XXI (1915), 48. Webster, Acadia, 121.

General Bibliography
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Philippe married Madeleine "Helie du" Tillet 1648, Calvados. Madeleine was born 1626, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died 1678, Pubnico, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Old Acadian Cemetery Lower West Pubnico, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Claude married Beatrice D'entremont 17 Jun 1600, Savoy, France. Beatrice was born 21 Dec 1572, Savoie, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died 1671, , Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet]

Claude married Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont 1561. Jacqueline (daughter of Sébastien de Montbel and Béatrix Pacheco d'Ascalana) was born 16 Feb 1541, Paris, Île-de-France, France; died 17 Sep 1599, Ivrea, Torino, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont (16 February 1541, in a house near the Louvre Palace, Paris - 17 December 1599, whilst imprisoned in the castle at Ivrea) was a French noblewoman. After her first husband's death, she converted to Protestantism and married Gaspard II de Coligny, who was later killed in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Jacqueline was the only daughter and sole heir of the Montbel d'Entremont family, a family with several fiefdoms in Savoy, Bresse, Bugey and Piedmont. Her mother was lady Béatrix Pacheco d'Ascalana, a young Spanish woman of Portuguese descent. Béatrix's father was Jean, count of Sifuente and duke of Ascalana, who was descended from Juan Pacheco da Silva, a Portuguese page who had gone to serve the prince of the Asturies around 1440, fought with distinction at the battle of Olmedo and was made duke of Ascalana by the king of Castille and Leon.[1] A drawing of Béatrix by Jean Clouet is now at the Musée Condé.[2] She was maid of honour to queen Eleanor of Habsburg (1498-1558), sister of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - on the death of Eleanor's first husband Manuel I of Portugal in 1521 she remarried in 1530 to Francis I of France and moved her Spanish courtiers and ladies in waiting into the Louvre Palace - one of them was Béatrix. Louise de Montmorency, countess of Coligny and mother of Gaspard de Coligny was also in the Louvre at around the same time, whilst another of Eleanor's ladies in waiting was Diane de Poitiers, wife of the count of Brézé, daughter of Jean de Poitiers and Jeanne de Bastarnay and aunt of Claude de Bastarnay.

After the Duchy of Savoy was occupied by French troops in 1536, the lords of Savoy were all invited to the French court. Charles III, Duke of Savoy fell and was forced into exile in Nice, forcing the lords to abandon Turin and go to meet Francis I. One of them was Sébastien, count of Entremont and Montbel, lord of Montellier, Natage and Saint-Maurice. In Paris he met Béatrix and married her on 17 September 1539 in the presence of the Dauphin (the future Henry II of France), Jean de Menthon, Philibert de Gilly and Louise de Montmorency, wife of Gaspard I de Coligny.[3] Their only daughter and heir Jacqueline was born in Paris on 16 February 1541 and grew up in the Louvre until she was six.

When Francis I died in 1547 his widow Eleanor took refuge in the Spanish Netherlands, home of her sister Mary of Hungary. Béatrix and Jacqueline went with her and Jacqueline remained in the royal court in Brussels until she was sixteen, at which age she was chosen to be maid of honour to princess Marguerite of France (1523-1574), Henry II's sister and future duchess of Savoy via her marriage to Emmanuel-Philibert de Savoie. Jacqueline thus returned to the Louvre in 1557, whilst her mother moved to the château de Saint-André at Briord in Bugey.

The Duke of Savoy beat the French at the battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557 and two years later the treaties of Cateau-Cambrésis agreed to the gradual evacuation of the French occupation forces from Savoy and Piedmont. However, he had to fight hard to defend his territories from incursions by Protestant forces from Geneva and by French forces which still held certain strategic positions. He recalled the Savoyard noblemen who had been in the French court for the last twenty-five years and gave them posts in his new army and government. He also forbade Savoyard noblewomen from marrying foreigners or Protestants, so that estates of Savoy remained in Savoy's hands. His biggest prize was the comte de Montbel (they had a family connection and the duke had been baptised in the arms of the count's paternal great aunt in 1528[4]) and the duke demanded that he come to court for the duke to present him with the collar of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation. However, he placed two conditions on its presentation - "when she reaches marriageable age, Jacqueline must marry a Savoyard lord of identical rank and of Catholic religion. The safety of the States of Savoy is at stake."

First marriage[edit]
The French court became a battleground between Protestant and Catholic factions until 30 June 1559, when Henry II of France died of wounds incurred at a joust he had organised in honour of his sister Marguerite's marriage to Emmanuel-Philibert, Duke of Savoy. Henry's son Francis II of France succeeded him and his wife Mary became queen consort. Francis entrusted ruling the kingdom to princes of the House of Guise, accelerating the French Wars of Religion. He died himself in 1560 and his younger brother Charles succeeded him aged only ten years old. Real power lay with the regent, his mother Catherine de Medici and on 24 August 1572 the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre broke out.

Aged twenty, plans arose to marry Jacqueline to a French lord, despite her father's assurances that she would marry a Savoyard. Her mother favoured Claude de Bastarnay, the nephew of Diane de Poitiers, who she had served alongside as a lady in waiting to Eleanor. De Bastarnay, count of Bouchage and baron of Anthon, was the son of René de Bastarnay and Isabelle de Savoie (daughter of René de Savoie, known as "the Great Bastard of Savoy". In his Histoire de la Bresse et du Bugey, Samuel Guichenon states that the marriage "had great difficulty in succeeding, since -as the countess Jacqueline was extraordinarily rich and powerful in estates - the Duke of Savoy, her natural prince, wished her to marry one of his lords. However, king Charles IX having written in favour of the comte du Bouchage, their marriage took place on 16 February 1561.".

Basternay was kept away from his young wife fighting as a Catholic in the Wars of Religion and so the marriage remained childless. He was killed at the Battle of Saint-Denis, where the Protestant forces were led by Jacqueline's future second husband Gaspard II de Coligny. The 74-year-old constable Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567) was shot in the back by a Protestant whilst being captured - he was the uncle of both Basternay (his sister-in-law Isabella of Savoy's son) and Coligny (his sister Louise's son).

Second marriage[edit]
Jacqueline took refuge with her mother at Briord where she met her old friend the Savoy poet Marc-Claude de Buttet and Théodore de Bèze, previously part of the 'brigade of poets' who were the forerunners of La Pléiade of Ronsard, who she had previously known at the Louvre.[5] De Buttet had taken refuge in his village at Tresserve beside Lac du Bourget - he had been a protégé of Odet de Coligny and Margaret of France. He chose Béatrix Pacheco Da Silva as his muse and his platonic love, giving her the alter-ego of Amalthea. Twelve years later, Jacqueline d'Entremont arrived at Henry II's court and took over from her mother as de Buttet's muse on her return from Brussels. She may also have taken over the pseudonym of Amalthea, though historians are still divided on which woman exactly is behind that name.[6]

Théodore de Bèze was then a Protestant minister in Geneva, famous for his conviction and eloquence - he converted the countess of Entremont to Protestantism and she went on to abjure Catholicism officially at the Duke of Savoy's high court. Bèze was also a close friend of admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, leader of the French Protestants. They both took part in the Colloquy of Poissy between 9 and 26 September 1561, disputing with Catholic theologians - from then on all Coligny's actions were influenced by Bèze.

Despite the Colloquy's setbacks, Bèze and Coligny went on to get the twelve-year-old Francis II to sign the Edict of January 1562, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, which gave French Protestants official legal recognition and the right to gather for worship in certain villages. However, this settlement was broken by the Massacre of Wassy by Francis, Duke of Guise's troops on 1 March 1562 and the religious wars broke out again. Francis was stabbed by an assassin on 18 February 1563 and died of his wounds six days later - in his Histoire Eccleésiatique, Bèze wrote that "Solemn thanks were rendered with great rejoicings" for Francis' death.

On 3 March 1568 Coligny's wife Charlotte de Laval died - they had had eight children and he grieved deeply for her. Bèze advised Jacqueline to marry Coligny - she had met him many times at the Louvre since her return from Brussels in 1557 and knew him well, whilst both their mothers had both been ladies in waiting to Eleanor (Coligny's mother had been summoned to court for that purpose in 1530 and Coligny and his brothers Odet and François came with her and studied alongside the king's children).

However, Coligny was unenthusiastic about the match, feeling preoccupied by his campaigning, thinking that the twenty-three-year age-gap between them was too large and self-conscious about the major wound which he had received on 3 October 1569 at the battle of Moncontour against a royal force under the future Henry III (he had been shot in the face by the Rhingrave, though he had managed to fire back at point blank range and defeat him). Even so, Bèze insisted in a letter to Renée of Ferrara: "Mme d'Entremont is a lady endowed with virtues and God's rarest gifts, and is one of the richest jewels of the land in which she lives". He insisted on Coligny to "work towards this union as it pleases God" and managed to convince him.

In deep secrecy Jacqueline rode across France with a small escort, meeting no obstacles, and she and Coligny signed their marriage contract in the house of François III, count of La Rochefoucauld on 24 March 1571 in the presence of Jeanne d'Albret, Henry of Navarre, François de Bourbon-Conti and Louis of Nassau.[7] The nuptial blessing took place the following day, 25 March, at La Rochelle, then a Protestant fiefdom.