Awards Peerage of France Name Gaspard de | Allegiance France Rank Marshal of France | |
 | ||
Died January 4, 1646, Chatillon-Coligny, France Similar People Jacques‑Nompar de Caumont, Ottavio Piccolomini, Anthonie Schetz, Pope Urban VIII, Cardinal‑Infante Ferdinand of Austria | ||
Nickname(s) Marechal de Chatillon | ||
Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, of the House of Coligny (26 July 1584, Montpellier – 4 January 1646, Châtillon), comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing, then duc de Coligny, marquis d'Andelot, Peer of France, Marshal of France (1622), was a French Protestant general.
Contents
He was the son of François de Coligny (1557–1591) and his wife Marguerite d'Ailly, and the grandson of admiral Gaspard de Coligny.
During the Thirty Years' War, he won the Battle of Les Avins against a Spanish army under Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano. On 6 July 1641, Gaspard de Coligny commanded the army of Louis XIII at the Battle of La Marfée, where he was defeated.
Marriage and issue
On 13 August 1615 he married Anne de Polignac (1598–1651), and they had 4 children :