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The historian Marcel Trudel asked the following question: "where does the name "Mount Royal" come from? in honor of Cardinal de Medici, Archbishop of Monreale? in honor of Claude de Pontbriand, son of the Seigneur de Montréal? or simply in honor of the king? No explanation has been given".
Claude de Pontbriand, the Seigneur de Montréal (landlord of the Château de Montréal), accompanied Jacques Cartier on his expedition up the Saint Lawrence River, and was with him on October 3, 1535, when he reached Hochelaga, on the site of the present day city of Montreal.