Coligni
or COLIGNY, GASPARD admiral of France, and leader of the DE CHATILLON, (kō-lēn'yē), SIRE DE, 1517. His father, also named Gaspard, Huguenots in the civil war; born in was a Montmorency. He entered the was Marshal of France, and took part in the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII., army at an early age, distinguished himand in the conquest of the Milanese by Louis XII. and Francis I. His mother self at the battle of Cerisole, at the taking of Carignan, and at the battle of Rentz. He was made Admiral of France Henry when the war broke out put himself at the head of the Protestants, with the in 1552, by Henry II. At the siege of a convert to the reformed faith, and the Spaniards. On the death of He II. he returned to his estates, became Prince of Condé. They were defeated by the Duke de Guise at the battle of when the war broke out put himself at the head of the Protestants, with the Dreux; the indecisive battle of St. Denis 1570, after the treaty of St. Germain, Coligny was flatteringly deceived by Catherine de Medici, and a few days diana. He was a delegate to the Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852; was ker, Coligny was flatteringly deceived by elected to Congress in 1854 by the newly followed, and the Protestants were deformed Republican party, and re-elected until 1869, being thrice chosen Speaker; 1570, after the treaty of St. Germain, later his assassination was attempted by an emissary of the Duke de Guise. and in 1868 he was elected vice-president Catherine de Medici, and a few days of the United States, in Grant's first term. Implicated, unjustly, as he and and in 1868 he was elected vice-president lier charges of 1873 , he spent the remainder of his life in political retirement. Died in Mankato, Minn., Jan. 13, 1885.