Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy

Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy (1584–1660) was a French nobleman and Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta. In 1638 he sailed to the Caribbean as lieutenant governor of the French Isles of America, ruling Saint Christopher from 1639.

He ruled almost independently: he seized Saint-Barthélemy in 1648, occupied Saint-Martin, and refused entry to his appointed successor in 1644, eventually sending him back to France in chains. In 1651 he persuaded the Knights to buy the four islands. He built up Basseterre and the Château de la Montagne, and died on Saint Kitts in 1660.