231:, then went on the Saint Christophe. There he found that La Grange had not prepared a house for him, but had only looked after himself. La Grange further antagonized him by sending him 18 African slaves as his share of the prize from a Dutch ship, while keeping 78 for himself. Relations quickly deteriorated between Poincy and La Grange, who thought himself the real leader of Saint Christophe, and La Grange's wife made matters worse. She insinuated that despite Poincy's vow of celibacy as a Knight of Malta he had a seraglio. According to Captain Thomas Southey (1827),
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Prosopopee," written by a relation of Madame la Grange, so galled De Poincy, who blamed her for some other squib, that he seized all their moveables for the money he had advanced La Grange in France, and also twenty-two Negroes, which he claimed as his, and ordered Madame la Grange to be kept prisoner in her own house. M. de La Grange offered to pay M. de Poincy, and to send his wife to France in the first vessel; but De Poincy refused.
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Company accepted the arrangement and on 6 January 1638 made Poincy captain general of Saint Christophe and La Grange lieutenant general. Poincy was also appointed the king's governor and lieutenant
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in 1616. On 26 February 1620 he married Marie Jumeau, daughter of Denis Jumeau, artillery engineer. Their children were
Charles de Bétoulat, seigneur de la Petitiere, André de Bétoulat, Comte de la Vauguoin, and Françoise de Bétoulat, who married Gabriel Imbert, seigneur de Petitval, cavalry captain.
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De Poincy having taken a beautiful girl called
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