This Jean Cartier, or Quartier, who was born in St Malo in 1428, took to wife in 1457 Guillemette Baudoin.

Of the four sons that she bore him, Jamet, the eldest, married Geseline Jansart, and of their five children the second one, Jacques, rose to greatness as the discoverer of Canada.

There is little to chronicle that is worth while of the later descendants of the original stock.

Jacques Cartier himself was married in 1519 to Marie Katherine des Granches.

Her father was the Chevalier Honore des Granches, high constable of St Malo.