Gaspard II de Coligny

1519–1572

Gaspard II de Coligny was a historical figure associated with Admiral of France. The record associates Gaspard II de Coligny with France. Gaspard II de Coligny belonged to the Coligny family.

Coligny became one of the most prominent Huguenot leaders during the French Wars of Religion and, after periods of war and exile, regained influence with Charles IX. He encouraged plans for intervention in the Netherlands against Spain, alarming Catholic opponents at court. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life in August 1572, he was killed in Paris during the opening violence of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

In G. A. Henty’s Saint Bartholomew's Eve, Historical figures including Catherine de' Medici, Charles IX of France, Gaspard II de Coligny, and Henry IV of France connect the fictional action directly to the documented events. In Kate Mosse’s The City of Tears, The wedding is intended to secure peace, but tension around the royal court, the Guise faction and Admiral Coligny quickly turns into organised violence against Protestants.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Gaspard II de Coligny (1 series)

The Joubert Family Chronicles in Order

by Kate Mosse 4 books 4.2(48,428)

The Joubert Family Chronicles follows generations of a Huguenot family from the French Wars of Religion into the maritime and colonial worlds of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The Burning Chambers begins in Carcassonne in 1562; The City of Tears carries the family into the St Bartholomew’s Day…