Gaspard I de Coligny

Gaspard I de Coligny, Count of Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (1465/1470–1522), known as the Marshal of Châtillon, was a French soldier.

He was born in Châtillon-Coligny. He was the youngest of the seven children of Jean III de Coligny and Éléonore de Courcelles, and the second of their sons. He served in the Italian Wars from 1495 to 1515 and was created Marshal of France in 1516. He died in Dax.

He became the seigneur de Châtillon following the death of his older brother, Jacques II de Coligny, in 1512. In the absence of his brother, the continuity of the house of Coligny rested with Gaspard. The possibility of the male line continuing was secured by his marriage to Louise de Montmorency in 1514.

By his wife, Louise de Montmorency, sister of Anne de Montmorency,^[1] he had three sons:

• Odet, Cardinal de Châtillon^[1]
• Gaspard, Admiral of France^[1]
• François, Seigneur d'Andelot^[1]

All three played an important part in the first period of the French Wars of Religion.

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Guillaume de Montmorency Anne Pot Gaspard I Louise de Montmorency Anne de Montmorency Madeleine of Savoy Charlotte de Laval Gaspard II Odet François François de Montmorency Henri Charles de Montmorency-Damville Louise François Charles Paul de Coligny [fr] Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange Gaspard III Guy XX de Laval William II of Orange Gaspard IV de Coligny [fr] Henriette Anne George II of Württemberg-Montbéliard William III of England Eleonore Leopold
Notes:

• Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge University Press.
• Louis de La Roque: Catalogue historique des généraux français, connétables, maréchaux de France, lieutenants généraux, maréchaux de camp. A. Desaide, Paris 1896–1902, p. 46
• Nicolas Breton, “Je les espreuve tous.” Itinéraires politiques et engagements religieux des Coligny-Châtillon (mi XVe-mi XVIIe siècle), Genève, Droz, Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance DCXII, 2019.

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