manGilles de la Fontaine‏‎, son of Arthur de la Fontaine and Susanne de Gorgon‏.
BORN_SHORT ‎1478, DIED_SHORT ‎1563‎, 84 or 85 years
Gilles and his son, John de la Fontaine, converted to Protestantism on the first preaching of the Reformed religion in France, about 1535.

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manJean de la Fontaine‏
BORN_SHORT ‎1500 Maine Providence, Normandy, France, DIED_SHORT ‎1563 in Maine Prov., France‎, 62 or 63 years
From the Fontaine book I have a copy of....

He was born in the province of Maine, about the year 1500, and as soon as he was old enough to bear arms, his father procured him a commission in what was then called Les ordonnances du Roi in the household of Francis I of France. It was in the tenth or twelfth year of this monarch’s reign that he entered his service, and he conducted himself so honourably and uprightly, that even after his father and himself had embraced Protestantism at its first preaching in 1535, he remained in the same situation, and continued there during the reigns of Henry II of France, Francis II of France, and until the second year of Charles IX. He married, and had at least four sons, when he retired from a service in which he had remained so long, only as a sort of safe-guard from persecution. The king’s officers were protected by right of their office; and our ancestor, it would appear, was much beloved by all his Juniors in the service, which made the Roman Catholic party afraid to meddle with him, though at the same time they thirsted for his blood, not only on account of his exemplary piety, but of the exercise of a power his office conferred upon him, and which he had freely used, of assisting the poor Protestants, many of whom he had shielded from persecution.

Resigned his commission about 1562 and retired to his estate in Maine where he actively supported the Protestant Church. In 1563, he, his wife, one son, and a faithful valet were assassinated by a group of ruffians from the city of Le Mans who had been dispatched by members of the Catholic Church.


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