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  1. LE MOYNE D’IBERVILLE (from a fief held by his father’s family, near Dieppe, in the province of Normandy) ET D’ARDILLIÈRES (from a property he acquired in the province of Aunis near Rochefort), PIERRE, soldier, ship’s captain, explorer, colonizer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer and trader, the most renowned son of New France; baptized 20 July 1661 at ...

    • Bernard Pothier
    • LE MOYNE D’IBERVILLE ET D’ARDILLIÈRES, PIERRE
    • Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2
  2. Parents. Charles Le MOYNE, seigneur de Longueil 1626-1685 ( Soldat, interprète de la langue iroquoise, négociant en fourrures, capitaine de la Milice de Montréal (en 1684). ) Catherine THIERRY PRIMOT. Spouses, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

  3. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville et d'Ardillières, soldier, adventurer (baptised 20 July 1661 at Ville Marie [Montréal], New France; died probably on 9 July 1706 in Havana, Cuba). He was the third and most famous of Charles Le Moyne 's 12 sons.

  4. Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, founded the French colony of Louisiana and the first European settlement in what is now Mississippi at Biloxi in 1699. The third son of noted New France emigrant Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, Iberville was born in Montreal, in the French colony of Canada, in 1661. From […]

  5. Sep 16, 2022 · Pierre Le Moyne was born in the frontier village of Montreal, the third son of Catherine Thierry and Charles Le Moyne, on July 16, 1661. He was educated in the Sulpician seminary of Montreal. With the permission of Governor Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, Iberville served as a midshipman in the French navy during his teenage years.

  6. He had ten brothers and three sisters. His father, Charles Le Moyne, sieur de Longueuil taught his sons frontier skills. At 14 Pierre was commissioned in the royal navy. After four years of service he returned to Canada, eager to help drive the British from America. Iberville was 25 when an undeclared war against the British fur trade began.

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  8. May 21, 2024 · Reference entries. in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History Length: 212 words. Search for: 'Pierre Le Moyne d' Iberville' in Oxford Reference ». (1661–1706).Son of a prominent Canadian family, Iberville joined Pierre de Troyes in the capture of Hudson's Bay Company posts on James Bay in 1686. In these raids he revealed ...

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