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Descendants of Jacques Cossart

Generation No. 2

2. MARGUERITE³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 1578, and died 02 May 1652. She married (1) JEHAN LORIN, son of PIERRE LORIN and ANNE POULAIN. She married (2) JACQUES ROGER.

Child of MARGUERITE COSSART and JEHAN LORIN is:

PIERRE⁴ LORIN, b. 01 October 1615.

3. ESTIENNE³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 19 January 1579, and died 1650. He married CATHERINE AQUART 05 December 1604, daughter of JEUFFIN AQUART and MARIE BARBERYE.

Child of ESTIENNE COSSART and CATHERINE AQUART is:

ESTIENNE⁴ COSSART, b. 1606.

4. JEHANNE³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 1583, and died 29 August 1624 in Died in Plague. She married MICHEL LE SUEUR 07 September 1608, son of GUILLAME LE SUEUR and MARIE HAREL.

Children of JEHANNE COSSART and MICHEL LE SUEUR are:

	i.	MICHEL⁴ LE SUEUR, b. 1609; d. 1609.
	ii.	MICHEL LE SUEUR, b. 1613; d. 1613.
	iii.	MARIE LE SUEUR, b. 1616; d. 1616.
10.	iv.	JEANNE LE SUEUR, b. 1619.
11.	v.	ABRAHAM LE SUEUR, b. 1623.

5. ELIZABETH³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 1586, and died 10 March 1663. She married JEHAN HEBERT, son of JEHAN HEBERT and MARIE LE GRIS.

Children of ELIZABETH COSSART and JEHAN HEBERT are:

12.	i.	ELIZABETH⁴ HEBERT, b. 1617.
13.	ii.	JEAN HEBERT, b. 1622; d. 1685.
14.	iii.	MARIE HEBERT, b. 1624; d. 20 October 1684.

6. ESTHER³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 1590, and died 25 June 1649. She married (1) JEHAN LE PLASTRIER 07 July 1613, son of SYMON LE PLASTRIER and ROBINE DE MOY. He was born 1579 in Rouen, France, and died October 1617 in Rouen, France. She married (2) ESTIENNE CHAPPERON 18 August 1619, son of ESTIENNE CHAPPERON and ANTOINETTE FREMONT.

Notes for JEHAN LE PLASTRIER:
The marriage of Jehan Le Plastrier and Esther Cossart was the beginning of our strong family links of consanguity to the du Pont family.
And the marriage of Anne Le Conte (great grandchild of Jonas Du Pont & Rachel Le plastrier) to Jean Le Plastrier and the relationship to Abraham du Busc.

The Wars of the League (1589-1598)
Henri IV's position was delicate. Some of the late Henri III's followers gave their loyalties to the new sovereign, and others melted away into the night. The League staged coups in many of the principal cities of France. In a reign of terror, they kept watch on the political correctness of the citizens, hanging moderates, Protestants, and suspicious persons. Well financed with Spanish money, Mayenne took to the field. Henri IV brought the war out of the south and into the north, which he knew was critical if he wanted to be king of France and not just king in Gascony.

In September of 1589, Henri met Mayenne and gave him a serious defeat at Arques. His army swept through Normandy, taking town after town that winter, and then he inflicted an even more crushing defeat on the League in March of 1590 at Ivry. The League pretender, the Cardinal de Bourbon, died, weakening the League position further.

Henri laid siege to Paris in the spring and summer of 1590. Although he reduced it to severe hunger, he made humanitarian gestures like allowing women and children to leave. This is not usually considered militarily wise by a besieger, as it means the only people consuming food in the city are able-bodied combatants. The situation alarmed Philip II of Spain, who ordered the Duke of Parma, perhaps the most able military commander of the age, to divert himself from suppressing the Dutch to relieving the siege. Parma was able to successfully get supplies into the city. The two never met in open combat, but Henri IV was obliged to withdraw.

In 1593, the League held an Estates-General in Paris, to name a candidate for the throne of France. The Spanish proposed the Infanta, the daughter of Philip II by Elizabeth de Valois, the late Henri III's sister, who would be married to a suitable French noble like the young Duc de Guise. This was a shocking departure from the Salic Law (no woman can inherit the throne of France), and Parliament passed a decree that the crown could not go to any foreigner.

At this point, Henri IV made his "perilous leap" and abjured his faith in July 1593, in the church of St. Denis, reputedly with the famous witticism that "Paris is worth a mass." A coronation was arranged for him at Chartres, rather than at the traditional Reims, which was in the hands of the League. This was a blow to the League, as it removed the chief objection of many of the more moderate Catholics to Henri IV. Many people did not trust the conversation, including the Protestants who hoped it was not for real. Still, some of Henri's hardcore Protestant supporters withdrew from him. In the end, he won over enough moderate Catholics to strengthen his position.

Finally, in the spring of 1594, Henri IV entered Paris without firing a shot, and the Spanish garrison marched out. It wasn't over yet, but Henri was now in possession of his capital. He began a vigorous program of winning over the support of moderate Catholics with a combination of charm, force, money, and promises. A great deal of money was spent guaranteeing various nobles pensions and positions in exchange for the support, and a great deal of money was given to the towns in exchange for theirs. Henri himself made the crack that the loyalty of the king's "bonnes villes" was "vendu, pas rendu." In the end, Henri considered it a bargain given he alternative costs of war.

Meanwhile, the king of Spain renewed the offensive in the northern territories, hoping to unite with the still rebellious Leaguer lords. Cambrai, Doullens, Calais were all taken in 1595 and 1596. Henri IV besieged La Fere, a Spanish outpost in French territory. In 1597, the Spanish took Amiens. The king fought back quite vigorously. Finally, in 1598, faced with financial problems of their own, the Spanish signed the Treaty of Vervins, which restored the captured towns to France. Of the League leaders, Mayenne capitulated in '96, the young Guise in '95, and Mercoeur at last in '98.

1598 saw the publication of the Edict of Nantes, which granted Huguenots freedom of worship and civil rights for nearly a century, until Henri IV's descendent Louis XIV revoked it in 1685. It is not the end of the Huguenot story in France, but it closes this chapter of the Wars of Religion.

Children of ESTHER COSSART and JEHAN LE PLASTRIER are:

15.	i.		JEHAN⁴ LE PLASTRIER, b. 25 October 1614, Rouen, France; d. 21 January 1703, London, Fugitive in 1685.
	ii.		ESTHER LE PLASTRIER, b. 01 October 1615; m. DANIEL AVAULEX, 01 December 1641.

Child of ESTHER COSSART and ESTIENNE CHAPPERON is:

iii.

JUDITH⁴ CHAPPERON.

7. MARIE³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 05 July 1597 in Rouen, France, and died 02 December 1648 in Rouen, France. She married (1) ABRAHAM DU PONT 10 February 1627 in Rouen, France, son of JEHAN DU PONT and GUILLEMINE BRIERRE. He was born 1572 in Rouen, France. She married (2) DANIEL LE PREVOST October 1647 in Boscroger, France, son of NICOLAS LE PREVOST and JEHANNE SERICQ.

Notes for MARIE COSSART:
From whom the Du Ponts of South Carolina and the Du Ponts de Nemours are descended.

Children of MARIE COSSART and ABRAHAM DU PONT are:

	i.	ABRAHAM⁴ DU PONT.
	ii.	ABRAHAM DU PONT, m. MARIE GUIS.
16.	iii.	JEAN DU PONT, b. 1631, Rouen, France.
	iv.	MARIE DU PONT, m. PIERRE RAFFY.
	v.	PIERRE DU PONT.

8. JUDITH³ COSSART (JACQUES², JEHAN¹) was born 12 January 1603, and died 18 February 1684. She married ALEXIS LE CONTE 16 July 1636 in Parish of St. Maclou, Rouen, France, son of ALEXIS LE CONTE and SUZANNE LE SUEUR. He was born 1590, and died 04 June 1650.

Children of JUDITH COSSART and ALEXIS LE CONTE are:

	i.	JEAN⁴ LE CONTE.
	ii.	JEAN LE CONTE.
	iii.	JEAN LE CONTE, b. 21 June 1637; d. 05 September 1637.
	iv.	JUDITH LE CONTE, b. 21 June 1637.
17.	v.	ALEXIS LE CONTE, b. 1638; d. 1688.
	vi.	JUDITH LE CONTE, b. 21 April 1642; d. 08 September 1643.
	vii.	DANIEL LE CONTE, b. 21 January 1645; d. Still alive in 1665.

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