Jean De Biencourt De Pourtrincourt
Biencourt de Poutrincourt, Jean de (1557–1615), a French colonizer who helped found Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). In 1604 Biencourt, the Sieur de Monts, and Samuel de Champlain established a colony at the mouth of the Saint Croix River. In 1605 the colony was moved to the Bay of Fundy, to land Monts had ceded to Biencourt, and was called Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal). Biencourt abandoned the colony in 1607 after France revoked its trading monopoly. He reestablished the colony in 1613. It was ravaged by the English in 1613, and he then relinquished his interests to his son Charles.