Charles François d’Angennes, Marquis de Maintenon (5 December 1648 – before 2 April 1691) was a French nobleman who became a buccaneer in the Caribbean.
He chose not to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and joined the Navy in 1669 and arrived in the Caribbean on La Sybille.
He gathered a fleet of ten ships crewed by 800 buccaneers and in 1676 attacked Isla Margarita, Trinidad and Cumaná.
In 1682, Louis XIV granted him a monopoly on trade between Venezuela and the French colonies in the Caribbean.
[3] He married Catherine Girauld de Poincy, daughter of a St Kitts militia captain, and had four children.