Joseph and Mary - Laurain and Laura Progenitors of Wayne Co., Michigan

This is from the Lorrain plot at Michigan Memorial Park in Flat Rock, Michigan, near Bernadine Laurain's grave, my 2nd cousin 2x removed.  Photo courtesy of  Stoneseeker23 at Findagrave.com

The memorial says:

Joseph Lorrain (1757-1805) married Mary Louisa Dagenais, came to Wayne County, Michigan from Montreal, Canada in 1783. Purchased 140 acres on the River Rouge near what is now General George Patton Park.  

 Joseph and Mary Lorrain are the progenitors of the Laurain and Laura families of Wayne County, Michigan who gathered at Michigan Memorial Park on April 18, 1956. 199 years after the birth of Joseph Lorrain to commemorate his memory and receive this Memorial in his behalf.

Courtesy of Google Maps.  You can see Holy Cross Cemetery (that is where my grandfather Mamerto is buried)  River Rouge is where Joseph and Mary Louisa Lorrain settled, and had land all the way up to near General Patton Park.

Joseph Lorrain's wife was actually named Louise-Marie-Thérèse Dagenais.  Mary Louisa is her Anglicized name. They are my 5th great-grandparents.

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This is my connection to them down to my grandmother Lenore Evelyn Barron:
5th Great Grandparents
Louise-Marie-Thérèse Dagenais was born circa 1762.  She married Joseph Lorrain November 22, 1779 in Saint-Martin Île-Jésus, Québec. Joseph Lorrain was born December 30, 1757 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Québec and died January 12, 1805 in Detroit, Michigan.
They had:
Amable Lorrain (October 10, 1797)

4th Great Grandparents
Amable Lorrain was born October 10, 1797 in Détroit, Michigan.  He married Archange Larabel January 19, 1818 in Détroit, Michigan. Archange Larabel was born May 28, 1798. Amable Lorrain died January 11, 1847 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
They had:
Jean-Baptiste Lorrain (August 3, 1820)

3rd Great Grandparents
Jean-Baptiste Lorrain (name changed to John Baptist Laurain) was born August 3, 1820 in Détroit, Michigan.  He married Euphrosine "Fresen" Leduc.  Jean-Baptiste Lorrain died circa 1887.
They had:
Francis Xavier Laurain (November 2, 1847)

2nd Great Grandparents
Francis Xavier Laurain was born November 2, 1847.  He married Sarah Roe.  Sarah Roe was born October 27, 1859 in Newport, Monroe, Michigan, USA and died July 13, 1935 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. Francis Xavier Laurain died October 4, 1914.
They had:
Susan Laurain (January 25, 1885)

Great Grandparents
Susan Laurain was born January 25, 1885 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.  She married Harvey Joseph Barron.  Harvey Joseph Barron was born July 17, 1887 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and died August 1973 in Frenchtown, Monroe County, Michigan, USA.  Susan Laurain died January 27, 1967 in Estral Beach, Michigan, USA.
They had:
Lenore Evelyn Barron (January 8, 1923)

Richard the Fearless

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

He was born to William I of Normandy, princeps or ruler of Normandy, and Sprota. He was also the grandson of the famous Rollo.He was about 10 years old when his father was killed on 17 December 942. His mother was a Breton concubine captured in war and bound to William by a Danish marriage. William was told of the birth of a son after the battle with Riouf and other Viking rebels, but his existence was kept secret until a few years later when William Longsword first met his son Richard. After kissing the boy and declaring him his heir, William sent Richard to be raised in Bayeux. After William was killed, Sprota became the wife of Esperleng, a wealthy miller; Rodulf of Ivry was their son and Richard's half-brother.
When his father died, Louis IV of France seized Normandy, installed the boy Richard in his father's office, then placed him in the care of the count of Ponthieu. The king then split the lands, giving lands in lower Normandy to Hugh the Great. Louis kept Richard in confinement at Lâon, but he escaped with the assistance of Osmond de Centville, Bernard de Senlis (who had been a companion of Rollo of Normandy), Ivo de Bellèsme, and Bernard the Dane (ancestor of families of Harcourt and Beaumont).

In 946, Richard agreed to "commend" himself to Hugh, Count of Paris. He then allied himself with the Norman and Viking leaders, drove Louis out of Rouen, and took back Normandy by 947. In 962 Theobald I, Count of Blois attacked Rouen, Richard’s stronghold, but his army was defeated by the Normans and retreated never having crossed the Seine. Lothair king of the West Franks stepped in to prevent any further war between the two.

Afterwards, and until his death in 996, Richard concentrated on Normandy itself, and participated less in Frankish politics and petty wars. In lieu of building up the Norman Empire by expansion, he stabilized the realm, and united his followers into a cohesive and formidable principality.

Richard used marriage to build strong alliances . His marriage to Emma connected him to the Capet family. His wife Gunnor, from a rival Viking group in the Cotentin, formed an alliance to that group, while her sisters form the core group that was to provide loyal followers to him and his successors. His daughters provided valuable marriage alliances with powerful neighboring counts as well as to the king of England.
He also built on his relationship with the church, restoring their lands and insured the great monasteries flourished. His reign was marked by an extended period of peace and tranquility.

Reference: Richard I, Duke of Normandy by Wikipedia.

This is my connection to Richard I, Duke of Normandy: Kyong-Mi Arcala → Thomas James Arcala Sr. my father → Lenore Evelyn Barron his mother → Harvey Joseph Barron her father → Suzanne Ouellette his mother → Norbert Ouellette her father → Jean-Baptiste Ouellette, IV his father → Geneveva Ouellette his mother → Jean-Baptiste Ouellette her father → François Ouellette his father → Marie-Thérèse Mignault dite Chatillon his mother → Marie-Louise Cloutier her mother → (Xainte) Dupont her mother → Paul-Michel DuPont her father → Denis DuPont his father → Charles Dupont his father → Charles Louis du Pont his father → Francois du Pont his father → Jean du Pont L'Abbe, II his father → Herve du Pont-L'Abbe, VIII his father → Herve du Pont-L'Abbe, VII his father → Hervi du Pont-L'Abbe, VI his father → Hervé V du Pont-l'Abbé his father → Mahut de Leon his mother → Jeanne de Montmorency her mother → Jeanne de Longueval her mother → Anne de Meulan, dame de Croissy her mother → Amaury II de Meullent (de Meulan), Seigneur de La Queuë her father → Amaury I de Meulan, seigneur de Gournay his father → Agnes de Montfort-l'Amaury, comtesse de Meulan his mother → Amaury III de Montfort, comte d'Evreux her father → Agnes d'Évreux his mother → Richard I, Count of Evreux her father → Robert d'Evreux, Archbishop of Rouen his father → Richard I, 'The Fearless', Duke of Normandy his father

Eleanor of Aquitane

Courtesy of Geni.com

In King John, Shakespeare portrayed Eleanor as a 'canker'd grandam', governed by lust for power, who schemed against her husband Henry II - a crime for which she spent fifteen years in prison - and dominated her children's lives, ruthlessly turning them against their father, the King. It is also well known that she feuded bitterly with at least one daughter-in-law and contributed to the death of her own grandson.

And, yet, there was another side to this powerful queen consort. Splendid in person, rank, and fortune, Queen of France - as the wife of Louis VII - and then of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine was worshipped by men, loved by her children, and idealised in the songs of the troubadours. She was renowned for her beauty and her generosity. Emerging at the King's death to become regent, she immediately ordered the release of prisoners throughout England, announcing: "By my own experience prisons are hateful to men and to be released from them is a most delightful refreshment to the spirit." She also patronised the great abbey at Fontevrault, a refuge for the wives of brutal husbands.

Today her glamour, her patronage of the poets, and her throwing off of the ferocious constraints with which convention shackled women in the twelfth century, are almost forgotten, as are her very real gifts as a politician and a ruler.

Reference: Eleanor of Aquitaine the Mother Queen by Desmond Seward.
This is my connection to Eleanor of Aquitaine: Kyong-Mi Arcala → Thomas James Arcala Sr. my father → Lenore Evelyn Barron his mother → Harvey Joseph Barron her father → Suzanne Ouellette his mother → Norbert Ouellette her father → Jean-Baptiste Ouellette, IV his father → Geneveva Ouellette his mother → Jean-Baptiste Ouellette her father → François Ouellette his father → Marie-Thérèse Mignault dite Chatillon his mother → Marie-Louise Cloutier her mother → (Xainte) Dupont her mother → Paul-Michel DuPont her father → Denis DuPont his father → Charles Dupont his father → Charles Louis du Pont his father → Francois du Pont his father → Jean du Pont L'Abbe, II his father → Herve du Pont-L'Abbe, VIII his father → Herve du Pont-L'Abbe, VII his father → Hervi du Pont-L'Abbe, VI his father → Peronelle de Rochefort his mother → Philippa de Laval her mother → Jeanne de Brienne her mother → Sir Louis de Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont her father → Berenguela de León, emperatriz consorte de Constantinopla his mother → Berenguela I la Grande, reina de Castilla her mother → Leonor de Inglaterra, reina consorte de Castilla her mother → Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England her mother