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Article: Coligny Family
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COLIGNY FAMILY
COLIGNY FAMILY.
The Coligny brothers were the among the most zealous and consistent aristocratic supporters of Protestantism in sixteenth-century France. Descended from a Burgundian lineage, they had an important landed base in Brittany and its marches. Gaspard de Coligny (1470
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1522), seigneur of Ch
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tillon, fought with distinction in the Italian Wars under kings Charles VIII, Louis XII, and Francis I, becoming marshal of France in 1516. He married Louise de Montmorency, sister of the constable of France; this union produced three sons: Odet de Coligny (1517
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1571), count-bishop of Beauvais and cardinal of Ch
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tillon; Gaspard II de Coligny (1519
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