Gaspard de Coligny

Gaspard de Coligny (February 16, 1519 – August 24, 1572), Seigneur (Lord) de Châtillon, Admiral of France and Protestant leader, came of a noble family of Burgundy. His family traced their descent from the 11th century, and in the reign of Louis XI, were in the service of the King of France.

References

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• Jean du Bouchet, Preuves de l'histoire généalogique de l'illustre maison de Coligny (Paris, 1661)
• biography by François Hotman, 1578 (French translation, 1665)
• LJ Delaborde, Gaspard de Coligny (1879-1882)
• Erich Marcks, Gaspard von Coligny, sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit (Stuttgart, 1892)
• H Patry, "Coligny et la Papauté," in the Bulletin du protestantisme français (1902)
• AW Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France (1904)
• C Merki, L'Amiral de Coligny (1909).