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Name
  
Louise Coligny

House
  
Gaspard II de Coligny

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Tenure
  
24 April 1583 - 10 July 1584

Born
  
23 September 1555Chatillon-sur-Loing (
1555-09-23
)

Issue
  
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

Died
  
November 13, 1620, Fontainebleau, France

Spouse
  
William the Silent (m. 1583–1584)

Children
  
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

Parents
  
Charlotte de Laval, Gaspard II de Coligny

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Louise de Coligny (23 September 1555 – 9 November 1620) was a Princess consort of Orange as the fourth and last spouse of William the Silent. She was the daughter of Gaspard II de Coligny and Charlotte de Laval.

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Biography

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Louise was born at Châtillon-sur-Loing. Her parents saw to it that she received a humanist education. When she was seventeen, she married Charles de Teligny. Both he and her father were murdered at the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Like her murdered father, she was a French Huguenot and after the massacre, she spent ten years in the Swiss Confederacy.

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She then married William the Silent on 24 April 1583. She became the mother of Frederick Henry in 1584, William's fourth legitimate son and future prince of Orange. It is said that she warned her husband about Balthasar Gérard, because she thought him sinister. Gérard murdered William in 1584.

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After her husband was murdered, she raised both her son and his six daughters from his third marriage to Charlotte of Bourbon. During her life she remained an advocate for Protestantism and she corresponded with many important figures of that time, like Elizabeth I of England, Henry IV of France, Marie de' Medici and Philippe de Mornay, as well as with her many stepchildren. She died at Fontainebleau.


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References

Louise de Coligny Wikipedia