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Gaspard II de Coligny
1519Feb, 16

Gaspard II de Coligny

Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572)
Gaspard de Coligny (16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), Seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and Admiral of France, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend of—and advisor to—the French king, Charles IX.

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