♂Hector Salazar

Hector Salazar (about 1540 – 1579) was a nobleman of Baigneux, near Saint-Just in Champagne, whose daughter Marie married into the family that carried the line to Acadia: her son, Charles Saint-Étienne de La Tour^W, became governor of Acadia. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie de Salazar (about 1571 – 1609).

Life at Baigneux

He was probably a kinsman of the Salazars, barons of Saint-Just. Hector Salazar married Antoinette de Courcelles, and the couple lived at Baigneux, where the parish priest styled him “Noble Seigneur”. Their daughter Marie de Salazar was born about 1571. On 15 January 1581, still a child, she stood godmother at Baigneux to Hector, the son of Jacquet Bertrand, and on 18 January 1585 her mother stood godmother there in turn, to a daughter of Jehan Trutat.

Marie married twice, the second time about 1592 to Claude Saint-Étienne de La Tour, who followed her kinsman Poutrincourt^W to Acadia. Hector is said to have died in 1579, though the baptism of 1585 still calls Antoinette the wife, not the widow, of “Honorable homme Hector de Salazar”.

Notes

Sources

The couple’s life at Baigneux rests on Léopold Lanctôt’s Familles acadiennes, tome II (1994), p. 54, a compiled history that quotes the parish register of Baigneux: Marie stood godmother in 1581 as “Marye, fille de Noble Seigneur Hector de Salazar”, and in 1585 the godmother was “Demoiselle Anthoinette, femme de Honorable homme Hector de Salazar”. A compiled genealogy by Stephen White names Marie de Salazar as the daughter of Hector and Antoinette de Courcelles. Lanctôt gives their marriage about 1560.

His death

A WikiTree profile gives his death in 1579, at “St Just, Haute-Loire”; the Saint-Just of this family is Saint-Just-Sauvage, in Champagne. The register entry of 18 January 1585 calls Antoinette the wife of Hector de Salazar without marking him as dead, which sits uneasily with a death in 1579. The year 1579 is kept here.

His parents

Who his parents were is not settled. Lanctôt traces the Salazars of Saint-Just to Jehan de Salazar, a Basque knight in the service of Charles VII of France, and takes this Hector to be probably a grandson of an earlier Hector de Salazar, baron of Saint-Just. René Jetté’s Traité de généalogie (1991) makes him either a son or a nephew of François de Salazar, baron of Saint-Just, who married Marie de Rouvroy in 1521. The longer pedigrees built on that link are left out here.