21,17,38Fille du Roi. Arrivée en 16663
Décédée entre le 20 janvier 1692 et le 11 juin 16963
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Jeanne Denotte was born about 1645 in the parish of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. The daughter of Antoine Denotte and Catherine Leduc.
The Church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois is a Roman Catholic church in the First Arrondissement of Paris, situated at 2 Place du Louvre, directly across from the Louvre Palace. It was named for Germanus of Auxerre, the Bishop of Auxerre (378–448), The current church was built in the 13th century, with major modifications in the 15th and 16th centuries. From 1608 until 1806, it was the parish church for inhabitants of the palace, and many notable artists and architects, who worked on the palace, have their tombs in the church.
During the Wars of Religion, its bell, "Marie", was rung on the night of 23 August 1572, to signal the beginning of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Thousands of Huguenots, who were visiting Paris for a royal wedding, were killed by the city's mob.
Jeanne came to Canada as a "fille de roi" (this term was not used at the time it was applied to them years later) We know from her marriage record that her mother was still living in Paris, so she was not an orphan as many of the "filles du roi" were, but her father was deceased. She arrived onboard the first ship to sail from France in the year 1667 and arrived in the city of Quebec that April.
At the time she set sail in order to do just about anything in Nouvelle France, including to hold land, hunt or trap, a sanction had been imposed by Louis XIV that one must be married, and men outnumbered women 6 to 1. A woman in Nouvelle France held much greater power than her sisters in France. The marriage was of her choice and if she decided it wasn't the proper match prior to co-habitation she could annul the marriage as several did. She also obtained a dowry from the king (ergo the origin of "fille de roi") which consisted of the necessities for setting up a household, along with food stores and some money all valuable to her suitors along with their ability to legally work the fur trade. With the death of her father she offered little or no dowry because of her place in a family of so many daughters. It's likely that she was of a devote nature & came to emigrate through the church as that time as most often the young women were recommended by the church to go to the colony because of their devotion to Christ as a means of bringing the faith to the frontier through procreation rather than the conversion of the native population.
She would have made the two hundred fifty mile journey from Paris to Larochelle in the company of others like her and one or more chaperons by coach. On 13 May 1666 Jeanne leaves from La Rochelle aboard Le Saint-Jean-Baptiste, a ship originally hailing from Dieppe. 11 August 1666 after first stopping at the Gaspe Peninsula, the ship carrying Jeanne arrives in Quebec. Between 11 August 1666 & 17 June 1667 Jeanne resides at a house on the grounds of the Ursuline monastery in Quebec until she marries. From the length of time between arrival & marriage she was taking her time in choosing. On 16 May 1667 she signs a marriage contract with Andre Robido L'Espagnol. They are married 7 June 1667 at Notre Dame de Quebec. She gives her surname as Leduc of the parish of St Germaine l'Auxerre, Paris, France & gives her parents as Antoine Leduc (deceased) & Catherine _____ (no last name given). There was some confusion here as at her second marriage she gives her father’s name as Denotte & her mother’s as Leduc. Andre Robido was born about 1640 the son of Manuel Robido and Catherine Alva, of the parish of Santa Maria, in Galicia, Spain, See (bishopric) of Burgos that at that time covered most of northern Spain.
We know nothing of Andre's life in Galicia prior to 20 April 1661 when he is engaged contractually as a sailor in Nantes, Brittany (now Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France). Andre, now in La Rochelle, Aunis (currently Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France) enters a contract of engagement with Antoine Grignon, on behalf of merchant Eustache Lambert, obligating Andre to go to Nouvelle-France to work for 3 years.
Late spring or summer working as a member of the crew, Andre sails from La Rochelle, France to Ile-Perce (on the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec), Acadia and finally to Quebec aboard La Marguerite, a ship originally hailing from Dieppe, Normandy, (now Seine-Maritime), France. He arrives in the city of Quebec in late summer. He came in some capacity for the fur trade but also establishes himself as a habitant.
The land in Nouvelle France was setup in seigneuries; tracts of land that were granted to the petty nobility and high-ranking officers who came for the fur trade. It was based on the feudal system that had existed in France for centuries but not as oppressive. It was a hierarchy, starting with the governor, down through the seigneurs, to the tenants, known as habitants, of small holdings. The land divisions were known as cotes. There was a nominal rent, usually about a sou and a pint of wheat for each acre, as well as the obligation to use the seigneurial mill for grinding of grains. Each habitant must also provide a few days labor each year to his seigneur. They would of course take up arms if attacked & importantly clear the forest behind which the Iroquois could hide and plunder. The cotes began at the river and were laid out in long strips that were later broken up between descendants.
About 1664 Andre receives a concession of land in what is now Saint Laurent on Ile d'Orleans down river from Quebec. On 13 May 1665 Andre Robidou signs on as a sailor aboard the royal galiotte, a type of small ship that worked the river trade hailing from Quebec. He then receives a concession of land on Cote Lauzon (now Levis, Quebec), on 15 June 1665. He later gives up his concession of land on Cote Lauzon and Ile-D'Orleans.
In 1666 Andre, age given as 26, appears in the census of New France living in the city of Quebec, in the home of Eustache Lambert a merchant. His profession "mathelott" or sailor. Several other men listed as "engages" (engaged in service to Lambert) are also living there.
At his marriage to Jeanne he gives his parents' names as Manuel and Catherine Alva, that they are living and the parish and diocese of his birth. Witnesses are Francois Blanche and Pierre Lamperiere, notary deBernieres.
Their first child, a daughter Marie Romaine is born in the city of Quebec July 11, 1669.
Sometime around 1671 they move to the seignurie of Laprairie, southeast across the St Lawrence River from Montreal, having acquired property there, property that was legally Jeanne’s as well. French Jesuits were the first Europeans to occupy the area which was named La Prairie de la Magdeleine but was also called François-Xavier-des-Prés. After the arrival of the Carignan-Salières Regiment in 1665 with the reduction of Iroqouis attacks habitants began settling the area. Their daughter Marguerite is born there November 10, 1671, but only lives until January 15 1672 and buried the same day in Laprairie.
April 12 1672 they acquire property on Cote de la Riviere Saint-Jacques, Laprairie.
On 04 December 1672 Andre exchanges the property to Jean Caillault for property on Cote de la Tortue, La Prairie. He also sells the property in the village of Laprairie to Pierre Lefebvre.
22 January 1673 the prior concession to Andre by the Compagnie de Jesus of the property on Cote de la Riviere Saint-Jacques, Laprairie, is confirmed. Their daughter Marie Jeanne is born there September 19, 1673.
Around 1674 Andre receives a concession of land on Cote Saint-Lambert, Laprairie, from the Compagnie de Jesus, and gives up his concession of land on Cote de la Tortue, Laprairie.
On 08 December 1674 Andre's concession of land on Cote Saint-Lambert, Laprairie, is confirmed by the Compagnie de Jesus. Andre continues to work the fur trade along the St. Lawrence River. Here his two sons Guillaume and Joseph are born. Guillaume the 28th of November 1675 and Joseph on the 13th of January 1678. Unfortunately, Joseph would never know Andre as he would die 3 months after his birth.
It's not noted how he died. He dies in Laprairie and the same day his body is taken across the St. Lawrence River and buried in Montreal. His death record from Notre Dame de Montreal simply states:
Le Premier Avril Seize cent soixante-huit A E(indeciperable) enterrer Andre Robidou L’Espagnol habitant de La prairie la Magdeleine age de trente-cinq ans ou enuiron pris cher.
Monsieur Fomblanc Chiurgien
The first of April 1678 With (indeciperable) inter Andre Robido the Spaniard, habitant, of Laprairie de la Magdeleine 35 years of age or thereabouts taken dear. Fomblanch, Surgeon.
Pris cher means "dearly taken from us". Andre was the only person of the surname Robido to appear in Canada, so all of those with similar spellings whose ancestors resided or came originally from Canada are necessarily related. There some 67 known spellings of the name.
Jeanne, 33, was now widowed with four children, the youngest, Joseph just 3 months old marries Jacques Suprenant, called Sansoucy (the Carefree) four months after Andre’s death 11 August 1678, in Laprairie. He had arrived in 1665, with the Cariqnan Regiment, Company Contrecoeur. Born around 1650, Jacques Suprenant, son of Jacques and Louise Roquet, from his marriage contract, was originally from the parish of St-Martin-d'Asprès or St-Martin du Vieux-Bellême, Mortagne, Perche. It is the only landlocked department in Normandy. He came with the Carignan-Salières Regiment a Piedmont military unit formed by merging two other regiments in 1659. They were led by the new Governor, Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, and Lieutenant General Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (c. 1596) named in 1662 Lt. General of North and South America by Louis XIV. In April of 1665, the Marquis left for New France, arriving in Québec on June 30th with orders to end attacks by the Iroquois in New France. Over the next three months the rest of the Regiment some 1,200 officers and soldiers arrived. Jacques arrived in New France, August 17, 1665, as a private in the Company Contrecoeur, of the regiment. He served at Fort Saint-Louis the initial wooden fortification erected on the shores of the Richelieu River. Over time it was replaced by stone and is now known as Fort Chambly. This work was accomplished by Jacques de Chambly and his men of the regiment.
In the next two years, the Regiment manned garrisons and launched attacks. By the end of this period the Iroquois had been pushed back and the situation became peaceful for a time. 800 of the soldiers returned to France. Approximately 400 stayed. Officers were encouraged to stay with promises of seigneuries (land containing many square miles). Their troops were promised concessions of large tracts of land in these same fiefs.
Jacques leaves his regiment in 1668 and lives in Longueuil prior to 29 Apr 1674 when in Montréal, Jacques Surprenant dit Sansoucy partners with Pierre Rebours to trade with Amerindian: The Association entre Pierre Rebours & Jacques Supernan dit Sansoucy & Annulment. Greffe de notaire, Bénigne Basset dit Deslauriers.
On 09 October 1674 Jacques Surprenant dit Sansoucy's concession of land on Côte Saint-Lambert, Laprairie, is confirmed by the Compagnie de Jesus.
On 04 June 1674 Jacques Surprenant becomes godfather to Jacques Benoît at Montréal.
The Compagnie de Jésus, as seigneur of Laprairie, inventories all of the concessions, the inventory lists on 09 October 1674 the concession to Jacques and includes the land Jacques acquired from Rebours. Greffe de notaire, Romain Becquet.
Jacques Surprenant and Pierre Rebours end their partnership on 26 January 1676.
On 03 March 1697 he sells his land on Côte Saint-Lambert, La Prairie, to Étienne Trudeau.
17 November 1676 Jacques is summoned as a witness involving a theft which occurred in Montréal 08 March 1677 and gives testimony as a witness involving the theft in Montréal.
Thirteen years after his arrival, 16 August 1678 at Laprairie, Jacques Suprenant marries Jeanne Denot nee Leduc.. Somehow, he had stayed in Canada those thirteen years without marrying. Perhaps his nickname explains this. At this marriage she gives her surname as Denotte. She gives her parents as Antoine Denotte and Catherine Leduc. "King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673" agree, as does Tanguay, with this parentage. Uncharacteristically of the records of that time it does not give that she is the widow of Andre.
Their first child Jean Suprenant was born 4 Dec 1679.
On 04 June 1680 Sepulture for Jean Surprenant (age 6 months) at Saint-François-Xavier, Laprairie.
On 23 July 1680 Jacques Surprenant dit Sansoucy & Jeanne Denot contract Marie Romaine Robidou, age 11 years, to work for a period of one year for Catherine Houart in Québec.
On 05 February 1681 Jeanne Denot becomes godmother to Romaine Gervais at Laprairie.
The Census records of 1681 shows Romaine living & working as a maidservant for innkeepers Pierre Nolan & Catherine Houart in Québec, while Jacques, Jeanne , Jeanne Robidou, Guillaume Robidou, Joseph Robidou & Marguerite Surprenant live together in La Prairie. Jacques is 37 years old, and Jeanne gives her age as 36.
Marguerite Suprenant is born in Jun 1681 christened on 5 Jun 1681. She dies on 26 Jul 1684 at age 3 and buried on 26 Jul 1684.
Pierre Suprenant is born on 19 Jan 1683 and christened on 21 Jan 1683 and survives to have children. He's named for his godfather Pierre Foubert.
Romaine Robidou marries Jean Roux dit Laplant, son of Samuel Roux and Antoinette Chateau, on 8 Oct 1683 in Laprairie. Jean was born about 1650 in Fontaine Chalandray, St Jean D'angely, Saintes, Saintonge, France and died before Dec 1686 in Laprairie. They had one child Marie Anne Roux born 28 Apr 1686 in Laprairie dying on 29 May 1687 in Montreal 5 months after her father's death.
Laurent Suprenant is born about 1684 surviving to have children.
Romaine alone with a small infant remarried Jean Patenaude, son of Nicolas Patenaude and Marguerite Breton, born 10 Aug 1654 in Sillery, on 10 Dec 1686 in Laprairie.
Catherine Suprenant is born on 24 Jul 1686, baptized 29 Jul 1686 surviving to have children. Her sister Jeanne Robidou acts as godmother.
Claude Suprenant is born on 19 Sep 1688, baptized 21 Sep 1688, godfather Claude Caron. He dies on 9 Sep 1689 and was buried on 10 Sep 1689.
11 October 1689 Jacques Surprenant dit Sansoucy & Jeanne Denot contract with neighbors Jean Roy & Françoise Saulnier to share harvest responsibilities. Marie Suprenant was born about 1690. She was the last of Jeanne's children that survives to adulthood and to have children but dies young.
Jeanne Robidou marries Gabriel Lemieux, son of Gabriel Lemieux and Marguerite Leboeuf, on 5 Dec 1690 in Laprairie with Jacques as witness.
Jeanne spent her entire life in Laprairie all of her 10 children were born and buried there. Gabriel is born on 4 Sep 1663 in Laprairie. His father, a Bowman, came from Rouen, France as early as 1640. Marguerite came from Troyes, in Champagne, France. In 1696 he's a master cooper (maître tonnelier) living in Quebec City.
Gabriel contracts as a engage' ouest 5 Aug 1690 and 16 Aug 1692.
On 13 January 1692 Jeanne Denot becomes godmother to Jean-Gabriel Lemieux, son of Gabriel Lemieux & Jeanne Robidou, at Laprairie.
Anne Suprenant was born on 20 Jan 1692. She is buried on 1 Feb 1692.
On 28 September 1693 Jacques contracts their son Laurent, age 10 years, to work until age 25 years for Nicolas Janvrain in Montréal.
On 02 June 1696 before Jesuit priest François Valliant, Jacques Surprenant dit Sansoucy agrees to Jean Patenaude, Marie Romaine Robidou, Gabriel Lemieux & Jeanne Robidou being the adult heirs of André Robidou dit L'Espagnol & Jeanne Denot, and to distribute certain assets to the heirs.
On 03 August 1696 Jacques becomes godfather to Jeanne Lemieux, daughter of Gabriel Lemieux and Jeanne Robidou, at Laprairie.
We know Jeanne Denotte dies between July, 1697 when she is present at Guillaume's marriage to Francoise Guerin, daughter of Sylvain Guerin and Marie Brazau and 24 February 1698 when Guillaume confirms his inheritance which means she would no longer be living. She would not see son Joseph Robidou marry Jeanne Seguin, daughter of Francois Seguin and Jeanne Petit 10 October 1701 in Longueuil. She would have been in her fifties when she died. The three youngest would still be at home. She was likely buried in Laprairie. When she died Jeanne had been in Canada over thirty years and had borne thirteen children, eight surviving to adulthood. Jacques did not remarry. Jacques dies 14 July 1710 and buried the same day.
Le 16th July 1710 a ete' inhume par moy soussigne' dans le cy (?) metiere de lte' la prarie de la magdeleine Jacques Suprenant dit Sansoucy age' environ 60 ans apres avoir recu tous ses sacrement a ite' present Pierre Gagne, Fr. Gagnes, Pierre Suprenant le fils du defunt.
The 16th July 1710 interred by me in my role at Laprarie de la Madeleine Jacques Suprenant dit Sansoucy about 60 years received the sacrement present Pierre Gagne, Francois Gagne, Pierre S

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