Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny was a military person and seigneur in New France.
Background
The son of René Legardeur de Tilly and Catherine de Cordé, he was born at Thury-Harcourt in France and came to Quebec City in June 1636, arriving with his mother, his sister Marguerite, the wife of Jacques Leneuf de Louisiana Poterie, and his brother Charles Legardeur de Tilly.
Career
He served as Governor Huault de Montmagny"s lieutenant, as a director of the Communauté des habitants and as admiral of the fleet. Legardeur helped found the Communauté des Habitants, who took over the fur trade monopoly from the Company of One Hundred Associates. In 1647, he obtained the seigneuries of Repentigny and Bécancour.
Legardeur died at sea during a return trip to Canada from France in spring 1648 after an epidemic broke out on his ship.