Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur (; 1596 – May 1, 1688) was an officer in the

Carignan-Salières Regiment The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a 17th-century French military unit formed by the merging of two other regiments in 1659. Approximately 1,100 men from the regiment were sent to New France in 1665 to deal with the threat of the Iroquois to the ...

and the first seigneur of Contrecœur. His son,

François-Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur François-Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur (; 1676 – July 2, 1743) was a military man by career (Carignan-Salières Regiment) and had inherited the seigneury of Contrecœur from his father, Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur. His son, Claude-Pier ...

, inherited the seigneury from his father. Antoine Pécaudy came to

New France New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br ...

in 1665 and was still an active military man attaining the rank of captain. He led numerous campaigns and was wounded several times. He stayed in Canada at the time the regiment disbanded. A number of the officers who stayed were granted generous lands. His seigneury gave its name to present-day Contrecoeur, Quebec.

External links

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
People of New France 1596 births 1688 deaths {{KingdomofFrance-stub