Jacques Fontaine II

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~vacfrede/Ann%20Maury.pdf

Memoirs of a Huguenot family
translated and compiled from the original autobiography of the
Rev. James Fontaine
and other family manuscripts;
comprising an original journal of travels in Virginia,
New York etc, in 1715 and 1716
by Ann Maury

When the Edict of Pacification was pronounced on January 17, 1562, Jean Fontaine (father of Jacques) thought that persecution of the Huguenots would end. He resigned his commission at court and retired (he was 62) to his estates in the province of Maine. One year after his retirement, a band of zealous anti-Protestants forced their way into his home. They murdered him, his wife, 7 or 8 months with child, who tried to intercede on his behalf and his valet. During the attack, fourteen-year-old Jacques II, born 1549, led his three younger brothers from the home and they fled on foot to Rochelle, a Protestant stronghold on the coast. Abraham Fontaine was about twelve years old at the time. They were taken in by a shoemaker who taught Jacques II how to make and repair shoes. He was able to support himself and his brothers and soon established his own business. It is not known what became of the other two brothers. Jacques II married in the early part of 1603 (at age 54) and his first son; Jacques III was born the same year.

      After Jacques II’s wife died, he married again and the second wife tried to poison him to inherit his fortune. Efforts to silence the poison attempt failed and his wife was tried and condemned to death. Jacques II appealed to King Henry IV for a pardon for his wife but King Henry IV “wanting to judge from the man’s appearance whether there was an excuse for the wife’s act”, after seeing Jacques II shouted, “Let her be hanged ... He is the handsomest man in my Kingdom”. When Jacques II died in 1633 (age 84) he left his family 9,000 livres, a considerable fortune at that time.

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