Xainte Dupont

Xainte Dupont’s Early Life

Marie-Xainte Dupnt (also spelled Sainte) was born around 1596 in Saint-Jean-de-Mortagne, Perche, France, to Paul-Michel Dupont and Perrine Rousseau. 

Xainte Dupont’s Marriage to Zacharie Cloutier 

Xainte Dupont married Zacharie Cloutier on July 18, 1616, in St-Jean in Mortagne-au-Perche, France. He was 26 years old and she was 20. They had six children: Zacharie Cloutier Jr., Jean Cloutier, Sainte Cloutier, Anne Cloutier, Charles Cloutier and Marie Louise Cloutier.

In 1634, Zacharie Cloutier signed a contract with Robert Giffard de Moncel to move to New France with Xainte Dupont and their children. Cloutier and Dupont helped establish a new settlement at Beauport, a community near Quebec City.

Xainte Dupont’s Royal Connection

Xainte Dupont is reportedly a descendant of Charlemagne, a medieval ruler who became the first Holy Roman Emperor. He was born around 747 and died in 814 and was the king of the Franks from 768 and the Lombards from 774.

It assumed that she is the 24th great-granddaughter of Charlemagne and that her “line passes through Albert III, comte de Namur, in a path different from that of Augustin Chamberland.”

Xainte Dupont’s Children

Dupont and Cloutier had six children in total. Although they were all born in Perche, France, most of them spent the remainder of their lives in New France.

Anne Cloutier

Anne Cloutier was born in 1626. She married Robert Drouin in 1637 in New France. 

The marriage contract was drawn up in 1636 when Anne was only 10 years old and he was 29 years old. 

It’s considered the oldest marriage contract in Canada. 

According to the marriage contract, the couple would only be allowed non-conjugal visits for the first two years.

Cloutier and Robert Druin had six children, but only two of them survived childhood — Geneviève Drouin and Jeanne Drouin. 

When Anne Cloutier died in 1648 at the age of 33, her two children with Drouin went to live with her parents because they did not approve of Drouin’s new wife.