 Individual Huguenots settled at the Cape of Good Hope from as early as 1671; the first documented was François Villion (Viljoen).The first Huguenot to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope was Maria de la Quellerie, wife of commander Jan van Riebeeck (and daughter of a Walloon church minister), who arrived on 6 April 1652 to establish a settlement at what is today Cape Town.The couple left for the Batavia ten years later.