Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, a sixteenth-century noblewoman, enters the historical record in 1536 when she declared fealty and homage to the King for lands she owned in Périgord and Languedoc. She accompanied her kinsman Jean-François de la Rocque de Roberval (c. 1500–1560) on his voyage to New France in 1542. He marooned her on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and she lived there for two years. Two contemporary accounts of her ordeal survive.
