Gaspard I. de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon

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Gaspard I. de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (* 1465/70 in Châtillon-sur-Loing (today: Châtillon-Coligny ), † August 24, 1522 in Dax , Gascogne ) was Marshal of France and fought on the side of the French kings Charles VIII. , Louis XII. and Franz I in the Italian wars against Emperor Charles V, among others .

Life

Gaspard was a member of the army of Charles VIII, undertook as this 1494 his expedition to Italy to the. Kingdom of Naples to conquer, and only a year, draws later, in July 1495 - despite defeat of the French - in the battle of Fornovo from . In 1509 he fought in the Battle of Agnadello , in which Louis XII. victorious over the army of Venice .

During the Battle of Marignano de Coligny coordinated the operations of the French and Venetians and thus had a not inconsiderable part in the fact that Francis I was able to win Milan again. For these services he was named Marshal of France and Governor of Champagne and Picardy on December 5, 1516 by the King in Amboise .

In 1519 he was appointed lieutenant-général by the king . After replacing the deceased Marshal Gian Giacomo Trivulzio as a member of the Knightly Order of St. Michael in December , he played a key role in the conclusion of the Anglo-French treaty between Francis I and Henry VIII in 1520 . Gaspard I accompanied the French king to the meeting of the two monarchs near Calais on the Camp du Drap d'Or (English: Field of the Cloth of Gold ). He then performed his military service in Champagne and Picardy.

Sent as commander of a relief army for the Basque Hondarribia (French: Fontarabie), he died of an illness on the way there in Dax in August 1522 and was then buried in the chapel of his castle in Châtillon-sur-Loing.

family

Gaspard came from the Coligny house . He was the second son of Jean III. de Coligny and his wife Eléonore de Courcelles.

On December 1, 1514, Gaspard married Marie Louise de Montmorency, the older sister of Anne de Montmorency, in Paris . From this marriage there were four children:

  • Pierre (* 1515; † 1534)
  • Odet (* 1517; † 1571), French Huguenot leader
  • Gaspard II (* 1519; † 1572), French admiral
  • François (* 1521; † 1569), colonel general of the French infantry

literature

  • Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : Dictionnaire historique et biographique des généraux français, depuis le onzième siècle jusqu'en 1820 . Volume 4. Paris 1822, pp. 383-385 ( online ).
  • Louis de La Roque: Catalog historique des généraux français, connétables, maréchaux de France, lieutenants généraux, maréchaux de camp . A. Desaide, Paris 1896-1902, p. 46 ( online ).