Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Origin

Villegagnon is pupil of the colleges of Walk and Montaigu to Paris, in company of Calvin. It obtains then its license of right to Orleans.

Order of Malta

It enters the Ordre of Malta in 1531 on the recommendation of his uncle Philippe Villiers of Isle-Adam, large Master of the order. It takes share in 1541 with the forwarding of Charles Quint against Algiers of which it writes the account. In 1548, it orders the fleet sent in Scotland to bring back Marie Stuart to the court of France, for its engagement with the François dolphin. In 1551, it tries in vain, since Malta, to defend Tripoli against the Turks. Returned to France, it is named in 1553 vice-admiral of Brittany after his campaigns in Hungary and with the Piedmont.

Brazil

It receives in 1555 the command of the fleet placed by Henri II at the disposal of Gaspard de Coligny to install a Protestant colony with the Brésil where the Protestants French could exert their religion freely. Left the Harbor, it builds in bay of Rio de Janeiro the Fort-Coligny and settles on the coast which it calls the “ France the Antarctic ”.

Two years later, after the arrival of a second quota made up of Protesting S, a theological argument with Villegagnon which was reconverted with the Catholicisme degenerates into massacre.

The account of forwarding was written in 1578 by one of its members, the student in theology Jean de Léry: History of a voyage made in the ground of Brazil .

Epilog

Of return in France, Villegagnon continues its polemic with the calvinists and takes share with the Wars of religion in the catholic camp. It was in particular wounded with the seat of Rouen in 1562.

It was then named governor of Sens in 1567.

He dies the January 9th 1571 in his commandery of Beauvais-in-Gâtinais close to Nemours.

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