Person:Philippe Mius (1)

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• Sieur Philippe Mius d'Entremont Baron of Pobomcoup
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!FAMILY: Clarence Joseph d'Entremont, A BRIEF HISTORY OF PUBNICO/BREVE HISTOIRE DE PUBNICO; West Pubnico, N.S.: La Socété historique acadienne, 2000. Philippe MIUS d'ENTREMONT's grandfather would seem to be Nicolas MIUS, a German who interpreted for Gaspard de COLIGNY, with whom he was massacred in 1572 during the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre. One of his sons would have been adopted by Jacqueline d'ENTREMONT, widow of COLIGNY, whose name he would have added to his own, to make MIUS D'ENTREMONT. Philippe, born in 1609, would be the son of this adopted son.

!FAMILY-ROYALTY: Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Communication," to the WALPOLE TIMES; 1925. The House of d'ENTREMONT was one of the most ancient and illustrious houses of Savoy and France, originating in the Valley d'Entremont, located in the Savoyan Alps. Rudulf, Lord d'Entremont and Montbel (born about 990-died 1040) was qualified Lord of the above territories in 1020. Other illustrious ancestors include the noble blood of the Pacheocos of Spain, one of the family being a commander in the army of Julius Caesar. Also descended from Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, Gouvenor of Paris, leader of the Huguenot party in the 16th century, who was the first victim of the St. Barthelemy massacre on the morning of 24 Aug 1572.

!BIRTH-IMMIGRATION-OCCUPATION-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 502 (Port Royal); own copy; each volume has genealogies within a specific area. Born in 1601, Philippe arrrived from La Rochelle, France to Acadia in 1651, "en qualité de major-general" of Charles de Latour, who conceded him the seigneurie of Pobomcoup (Pubnico) at Cape Sable, where he settled.

    Own entry on p. 1593 (Cap-de-Sable), contradicts, says born in 1609. Named Philippe MIUS, sieur d'ENTREMONT, seigneur de POBOMCOUP. Says originally from Normandy, but did arrive from La Rochelle, France. He arrived from France in the company of his wife and the oldest of their children. Gives date of seigneurie at Pobomcoup as 1653, where he settled. He was procurer for the King at Port Royal. Footnote cites further article in Memoires de la Societe Genealogique Canadienne-Francaise, vol. 191, no. 3 & 4 (1968).

!NAME-FAMILY: "Progenitors--Those Most Misunderstood," ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Oct 1994); P. 119; own copy; these facts have been verified by the Centre d'Etudes acadiennes as accurate. "the coats of arms for the MIUS d'ENTREMONTS ... are probably legitimate."

!IMMIGRATION: Came to Acadia with Charles de LA TOUR, who was named Governor a second time in 1651 (first was in 1631), and came back to Acadia from France with Philippe, who was to be his Major.

!RESIDENCES: He was to be the founder of Pubnico [before the Expulsion, Cape Sable]. "In 1653, Charles de LA TOUR gave him the choice to settle wherever he would like. He chose what was then known to the Indians as Pobomcoup, meaning 'a place where holes have been made through the ice to fish.' Charles de LA TOUR erected the place into a barony, the first ever constituted in Acadia, and the second in all Canada. He gave to Philippe the title of Baron. The center of the barony was located on the east side of the harbor, not far from its head. It was in this same year, 1653, that Philippe came to live here, with his wife, Madeleine HELIE, and their daughter Marguerite, who was born in France and was to become the wife of Pierre MELANSON [MELANCON], the founder of Grand-Pré." (From Acadian Genealogy Exchange, Vol. 23, No. 3, p. 69.)

!BIRTH-GRANDPARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILD-RESIDENCES-DEATH: Mary Elizabeth Thomas Robinson, "The D'ENTREMONTS of Pobomcoup," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES; vol. II, no. 4; pp. 15-19. Philippe MIUS d'ENTREMONT born about 1609 in Normandy, probably grandson of Nicolas MOUSCHE or MUSSE & Jeanne. Nicolas was a German, interpreter for Admiral de COLIGNY, a Huguenot victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572, and probably also a victim. Philippe's father was adopted as an infant by Admiral de COLIGNY's widow Jacqueline de MONTBEL. Philippe married around 1649 at Cherbourg, France to Madeleine HELIE du TILLET, born about 1626 at Cherbourg. He appeared in Acadia about 1652 as General Charles de la TOUR's Lieutenant. He was awarded a seigniory at Pobomcoup on Cape Sable.

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; pp. 228; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 17: Philippe MYUS, living with one girl [Madeleine] age 10, as well as Jaques MYUS, Abraham MYUS, Anne Marguerite, and one girl age 1 year. They have 9 arpents of land, with 12 head of cattle.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, "Recensement fait par Monsieur De Meulles;" 1686; France, Minister of the Colonies, Archives; [p. 3]; microfilm from LDS Family History Library. Listed third in importance, "Le S'r. d'antremon [d'ENTREMONT], Philipe MIUS Pro'n. du Roy. Age was 77, with 40 arpents of tilled land. His two children, Philippe, 24, and Magdelaine, 16 were also in the household. Did other of his children live in Cap de Sable in 1686?

!OCCUPATION: Because he was Attorney General of the King in Acadia, he had to follow the Governor wherever he would go, so did not stay long at the barony in Cape Sable.

!DEATH: He died at ABT 91 years of age, probably at his daughter's.

1.   Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 10.

   Recensement 1671, Pobomom, Acadie
   "FILHIPE MIEUX EMIER SIEUR DE LENDREMONT agé de 62 ans, Madellene ELLIE sa famme age de 45 ans, leur fille enné Marguerite Marie Ane, Piere MELANSON son fils, enné, agé de dix seit ans, la puyné Abrahan age de 13 ans, le cadet Filhipe age 11 ans, un fille la cadette de tous Madeleine age de 2 ans, leur teire en labour six arpans leur bestiaux à corne 26 des brebis 29 des chevre 12 des cochons 20.

   !CENSUS: 1671, Acadia [on last page, at Pobomcom], age 62 years, living with wife 45 and children, including the daughter married to Piere MELANSON. They have 6 arpents, 26 cattle, 29 sheep, 12 horses [the only in Acadia?], and 20 pigs. Karen Theriot Reader

2.   Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
   Volume I, 1000-1700.

   "MIUS (Muis) D’ENTREMONT, PHILIPPE, esquire, first baron of Pobomcoup (Pubnico), near Cap de Sable, lieutenant-major, king’s attorney, settler, the first of the d’Entremonts of Nova Scotia; b. c. 1601 (or 1609) in Normandy (probably at Cherbourg); d. c. 1700 (or 1701).
   
   According to Placide Gaudet, the Norman Philippe Mius was related by marriage to the Bourbon family and was made Sieur d’Entremont by Louis XIV; but according to a descendant, H. Léandre d’Entremont, the titles of nobility are said to go back to the 11th century in Savoy, and a branch of the Savoy family is thought to have emigrated to Normandy during the 16th century. In 1649 the Sieur d’Entremont married Madeleine Hélie (or Élie) Du Tillet (b. 1626). He was then a captain in a regiment. It was in 1650 (Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 329) or 1651 (R. Le Blant) that he, with his wife and a daughter, was brought to Acadia by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, a childhood friend, as lieutenant-major and commander of the king’s troops. To reward him for his services, La Tour offered d’Entremont in 1651 or 1653 the letters patent of the Pobomcoup fief, as a barony. The feudal rights conferred upon the baron a territory stretching from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth). The feudal castle was built near the entry to the natural harbour of Pubnico, on the east side.
   
   D’Entremont played an important part in the colony’s history both because of what he did as an administrator and because he was one of the rare Acadian seigneurs to concern himself with cultivation and with clearing land; he attracted to his estate “several indentured workers and a few families from Port-Royal [now Annapolis Royal, N.S.] and this seigneury eventually formed a small centre of population.”
   
   Besides their daughter whom they had brought from France, the d’Entremonts had four children who were born on Acadian soil: two of their sons, Jacques, b. 1659, and Abraham, de Plemazais (or Plemarch), b. 1661 or 1662, married respectively Anne and Marguerite, the daughters of Governor Charles de La Tour and Jeanne Motin; the third son, Philippe, whose life is more difficult to piece together, evidently married a daughter of Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie* de Saint-Castin. As for the daughters, Marie-Marguerite, born in France, married Pierre Melanson, dit La Verdure [see Charles Melanson]; the other, Madeleine, seems to have remained a spinster.
   
   Around 1670, at the time when the Treaty of Breda was being put into force, Governor Andigné de Grandfontaine was establishing himself at Pentagouet on the Penobscot. D’Entremont was named king’s attorney, an office which he held for 18 years despite his advanced age. We know of reports which were made by Mius d’Entremont and Jacques Bourgeois* on the subject of the Acadian frontiers, and sent to the minister, Pontchartrain, by Joseph Robinau de Villebon. Towards the end of his life d’Entremont left his seigneurial estate, bequeathing the title of baron to his eldest son Jacques, and went to settle at Port-Royal with his wife and two of his children. He died at the end of 1700 or the beginning of 1701, a venerable patriarch more than 90 years old. According to tradition it was at Port-Royal that he died, but Léandre d’Entremont indicates Grand-Pré, where d’Entremont may have gone to reside with his daughter Marie-Marguerite Melanson, as the more likely place of death. Philippe Mius d’Entremont has left a large number of descendants in Acadia; the barony of Pobomcoup remained in the family until the expulsion of the Acadians; and after more than three centuries some hundred families of the same name can still be counted at Pubnico. Clément Cormier
   
   Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 134, 329. Recensement de 1686 (Acadie). Placide Gaudet, notes preserved in the PAC and at the Université de Moncton; études published in Moniteur Acadien (Shediac, N.B.), 17 Dec. 1886, 11 and 25 Jan. 1887. George S. Brown, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: a sequel to Campbell’s history (Boston, 1888), 151–52. A. Cameron, study published in the Halifax Herald, 1 Jan. 1886, of which the translation was published in the Moniteur Acadien, 21 Jan. 1886; see also issues of 7, 14 Jan. 1886, 17 Dec. 1886, 11 Jan. 1887. H. L. d’Entremont, The Baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians, a history of the ancient “Department of Cape Sable,” now known as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia (Yarmouth, 1931); The forts of Cape Sable of the seventeenth century (n.p., 1938); study on the genealogy of the Acadian families of Yarmouth county, published in the Yarmouth Herald beginning 20 Feb. 1940. Robert Le Blant, “Les trois mariages d’une Acadienne, Anne d’Entremont (1694–1778),” NF, VII (1932), 211. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, II, 320. P.-G. Roy, “Les marquisats, comptés, baronnies et châtellenies dans la Nouvelle-France,” BRH, XXI (1915), 48. Webster, Acadia, 121."