Everything about Louise De Coligny totally explained
Louise de Coligny (
Châtillon-sur-Loing,
23 September 1555 -
Fontainebleau,
13 November 1620) was the daughter of
Gaspard de Coligny and Charlotte de Laval and the fourth and last spouse of
William the Silent.
Biography
When she was seventeen, she married Charles de Teligny. Both he and her father were murdered at the
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. She then married
William the Silent on
April 12,
1583. Like her murdered father, she was a French
Huguenot. 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.
After her husband was murdered, she raised both her son and his daughters from his third marriage to
Charlotte of Bourbon. During her life she remained an advocate for protestantism.
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