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    Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ də kɔliɲi]; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral...
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    (1205) Gaspard I de Coligny, comte de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (1465/1470–1522), known as the Marshal of Châtillon Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572)...
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  • François de Coligny (1557–1591) comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing was a French Protestant general of the Wars of Religion. He was the...
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    survivors of the disastrous battle of Moncontour. The combined army, led by Coligny and the young princes of Condé and Navarre, fought the Catholics to a standstill...
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    Odet de Coligny (10 July 1517 – 21 March 1571) was a French aristocrat, cardinal, Bishop-elect of Beauvais, Peer of France, and member of the French Royal...
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    Château de Châtillon-Coligny Gaspard I de Coligny (c.1465-1522), seigneur of Châtillon, born in Châtillon-sur-Loing. Odet de Coligny, cardinal de Châtillon...
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  • Charles de Coligny (1564–1632) was a member of the House of Coligny. The youngest of the three children of Gaspard II de Coligny and Charlotte de Laval...
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    de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. King Charles IX ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny...
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    (led by Condé and admiral Coligny and the royal (largely Catholic) party led by queen Catherine, the king of Navarre, duc de Guise, marshal Saint-André...
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    The assassination of Admiral Coligny on 24 August 1572 would prelude one of the critical events of the French Wars of Religion, the Massacre of Saint...
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    de Coligny (18 April 1521 – 27 May 1569) was one of the leaders of French Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion. The son of Gaspard I de Coligny...
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    the castle dominates the Bresse plain. In 974, Manassès III, Lord of Coligny, gave his lands of "Chevrel" and "Chastel" to the monks of the Abbey of...
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    evidence that the would-be killer was Charles de Louviers de Maurevert. Knecht, Catherine de' Medici, 154–157. Coligny was lobbying the king to intervene against...
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  • Leopold Eberhard became Comte de Coligny after the death of his mother, the sole surviving heiress of Comte Gaspard III de Coligny. A few years later, in...
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  • husband's death, she converted to Protestantism and married Gaspard II de Coligny, who was later killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Jacqueline...
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  • Socially, Louise and the Brézés were the inferiors to the Guises. Gaspard II de Coligny tried to dissuade the Guises from the match, stating that "it was not...
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    objective to keep Coligny's army from joining Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery's forces operating in the South of the country. Coligny attempted to rectify...
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    led included writer Jean de Léry. Philippe de Corguilleray, who was in retirement near Geneva, had been asked by Admiral Coligny to lead the contingent...
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    was engaged by a royal French army under Gaspard de Coligny, Marshal Châtillon at Sedan, but Coligny was routed at the Battle of La Marfée outside of...
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    Abel Henri Sauvage, Count de Brantes, and his wife, Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée Françoise de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, a great-great-granddaughter...
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    Henriette de Coligny de La Suze (1618 – March 10, 1673) was a French writer. She was one of four children born to Anne de Polignac and Gaspard de Coligny, Duc...
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    France Antarctique (category Rio de Janeiro (state) articles missing geocoordinate data)
    front of present-day Rio de Janeiro, where they built a fort named Fort Coligny. The fort was named in honour of Gaspard de Coligny (then a Catholic statesman...
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    his own compositions. Cardinal de Richelieu. Cardinal d'Amboise, archbishop of Rouen. (pictured) Gaspard, Comte de Coligny. The poet François Malherbe,...
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    children: Charles de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny (17 August 1824– 11 March 1910), Prince of Lucinge and Cystria, married Françoise de Sesmaisons, the daughter...
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    half-sister of Admiral Coligny, d'Andelot, and Cardinal de Châtillon. Eléanor was the first wife of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé; as such, she was...
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    Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    - agreed to send a corps of 6,000 men independently commanded by Count Coligny of France and Prince Johann Philipp of Mainz. By September 1663, Brandenburg...
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    relied on three men, Humières, Saint-André and the comte de Brissac. Several of his nephews (Coligny and Andelot) would be among the enfants d'honneur...
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    a combination of the cardinal de Lorraine, the queen mother Catherine and the amiral de Coligny (admiral of Coligny) resolved to abandon persecution...
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    along with Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569), Gaspard II de Coligny and François de Coligny d'Andelot are pointed out as one of the instigators of the...
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    Albert de Gondi, duc de Retz (4 November 1522 in Florence – 1602) seigneur du Perron, comte, then marquis de Belle-Isle (1573), duc de Retz (from 1581)...
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