Joseph ROBINEAU

Born

22 August 1655 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

5 July 1700 , Acadia, Canada

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René ROBINEAU

Mother

Marie-Anne LENEUF DE LAPOTERIE

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Died at Fort Saint-Jean

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Recorded occupation: officer, captain, governor of Acadia

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
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1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Baptism

Joseph Robineau
22 August 1655
Notre-Dame-de-Québec

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Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography

ROBINAU DE VILLEBON, JOSEPH, officer, captain, governor of Acadia; b. 22 Aug. 1655 at Quebec, son of René Robinau de Bécancour and Marie-Anne Leneuf de La Poterie; d. 5 July 1700 at Fort Saint-Jean in Acadia.

Robinau de Villebon’s personality dominated the Acadian scene for a period of about ten years (1690–1700), at the time of the War of the League of Augsburg. To carry out the policy of Versailles a soldier was needed in Acadia, a man who was capable of holding out with very little aid. The choice of Villebon seems to have been a good one: a native of the country, he knew Acadia; in addition he had gone to France in his youth to finish his education and to serve in the army. Indeed, after serving as an officer in a dragoon regiment, he had been promoted to the rank of captain. Around 1681 he had returned to New France. He seems to have lived with his parents at the manor-house of Portneuf until 1684, in which year he took part in Le Febvre de La Barre’s expedition against the

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003