Captain François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Méloizes (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi ʁəno davɛn de məlwaz]; 1655 – April 22, 1699) was a French Cavalry officer who came to New France in 1685 in command of the Troupes de Marine and led the successful expedition against the Senecas.

Born at Château des Aubues, Lormes, Bourgogne; the ancestral home of his mother's family since the early fifteenth century.

In 1685, he acquired a company in the Troupes de Marine and by August of that year he arrived with his regiment at Quebec.

[4] At the time of his marriage his wife's grandfather gave him the fief of La Cloutièrerie, within the Seigneury of Beauport, selling it in 1693.

Renaud d’Avène des Méloizes died 22 April 1699 at Quebec and was buried in the vaults of the Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral.