This popular print by Frans Hogenberg shows the attempted assassination of Coligny on 22 August on the left, and his murder on 24 August on the rightAdmiral Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Huguenots
The assassination of Admiral Coligny on 24 August 1572 would prelude one of the critical events of the French Wars of Religion, the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. The figures responsible for first the attempt on his life on 22 August and then his execution on 24 August have long been debated by historians. Coligny's feud with Henry I, Duke of Guise throughout the 1560s and his desire to bring France into conflict with Spain are often cited as key factors. The attempt on his life took place in the wake of the marriage between Navarre and Margaret of Valois a high-profile affair intended as a component of the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye by Catherine de'Medici and her son Charles IX
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and assassin during the French Wars of Religion, whose failed assassinationofAdmiralColigny led to the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Maurevert was from...
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statements, some of which implicated AdmiralColigny. Coligny protested emphatically against the accusation, but nevertheless the assassination led to a vendetta...
12 April 1583 to Louise de Coligny, a widowed French Huguenot and daughter of Gaspard de Coligny. She was to be the mother of Frederick Henry (1584–1647)...
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Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the...
assassination there of the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572.[citation needed] The beginning of the Rue...
": 42 — Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiralof France (24 August 1572), in response to one of his assassins asking, "Art thou Coligny?" "Now it is come.": 96 ...
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