Gaspard II de Coligny
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Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman, Admiral of France, and Huguenot leader during the French Wars of Religion. He served under kings Francis I and Henry II during the Ita
Portrait by François Clouet, between 1565 and 1570
Athore, son of the Timucuan king Saturiwa, showing Laudonnière the monument placed by Jean Ribault in 1562.
The Three Chatillon brothers: Odet de Coligny, Gaspard II and François de Coligny d'Andelot
Admiral Coligny's final charge against Guise and Saint-André's gendarmes and the veteran infantry square
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally
Gaspard II de Coligny
…accused him of responsibility for the assassination, and unsuccessfully tried to bring a case against him. Coligny was assassinated at the start of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, in 1572, on the orders of Henri I, Duke of Guise, son of François. Coligny came of a noble family of Burgundy. His family traced their descent from…
Painting by François Dubois, a Huguenot painter who fled France after the massacre. Although it is not known whether Dubois witnessed the event, he depicts Admiral Coligny's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Louvre Palace to inspect a heap of bodies.
Charles IX of France, who was 22 years old in August 1572, by François Clouet.
This popular print by Frans Hogenberg shows the attempted assassination of Coligny at left, his subsequent murder at right, and scenes of the general massacre in the streets.