♀Marie de Salins

Marie de Salins (born about 1590) married Louis Motin, seigneur of Reux and of Corcelles in the Charolais, in southern Burgundy, and was the mother of Jeanne Motin, who married two governors of Acadia. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Jeanne Motin (about 1615 – about 1666).

Life

She was probably born about 1590, the daughter of Claude de Salins and Anne de Chantepinot. On 9 November 1607 she married Louis Motin, who served as controller of the royal salt store at Mont-Saint-Vincent. The couple had eight children, six sons and two daughters, among them Jeanne, born about 1615. Marie appears to have died before 1636, the spring her daughters and two of her sons sailed for Acadia; Louis married again on 8 April 1637.

The family

Of the couple’s other children, Anne, who married Nicolas Le Creux, sieur du Breuil, in 1635, settled with him in Acadia, but the couple went back to France before 1650. Jean and Claude came to Acadia in 1636 and returned to France about 1640, and Jean became a priest. The eldest son, Nicolas, seigneur of Reux, was a captain of the ships of the Company of New France^W.

Notes

Sources

Her parents (her father is given as Claude III de Salins), her marriage on 9 November 1607, the list of her children and her husband’s second marriage come from the Motin family notice in Léopold Lanctôt’s Familles acadiennes, vol. 2, pp. 117–118, a compiled genealogy. Lanctôt describes Louis as already a widower when his children left for Acadia, which is the basis for her death before 1636. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography and Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens both name her as Jeanne Motin’s mother. Her birth about 1590 in the Charolais is given only by a WikiTree profile, without a source.