Ah! New style. I seem to remember the term. And yes the calendar dates now make sense to this reader. Howard has the answer to birth dates : > Europäische Stammtafeln (vol XIV, table 61): 17.II > 1518 New Style > (By New Style, I assume they mean the year begins > Jan 1; which will make the 2nd month Feb.) And see now all can be resolved listers if one asks. There a many learned folk subscribed as Howard has demonstrated here in answer to the date of Gaspard's birth. Now then to the next item of the second marriage. Once again Howard has provided us with reliable source and so I shall accept that indeed Gaspard DE COLIGNY had a second wife. I was not arguing that he did not, simply sought reliable source other than someone else's family collection of information. > No, it seems well documented. > Europäische Stammtafeln also shows that he married > secondly at La Rochelle 25.III 1571 Jacqueline de > Montbel, countess d'Entremont > (his first wife died at Orléans 3.III 1568) Thank you Howard for your information. And so now to the thrid part for ongoing discussion. The apparent adopted child. Firstly is there documentation that can be accepted as reliable that this adoption was legal and did actually occur ? Let us for now accept that all is above board on that front. Please deny if you have cause to do so. The question now would be limited to : Is, or was, the child a DE COLIGNY? I believe we have a couple of listers who offer that the answer is definitely no. Are there any subscribers who wish to plead the case for the Yes ? Be not afraid and go ahead, present your postulation on that question, while I propose a further question on this topic. Gaspard and his first wife Charlotte DE LAVAL were Huguenot and so it is reasonable to assume that the children of that union were also Huguenot? Was Jacqueline DE MONTBEL also Huguenot ? Was the adopted child brought up with Huguenot belief ? As an aside just who was the child, he/she has a name I presume ? And I most humbly apologise Howard in causing you to rush off to a library. I will only propose easy questions from now on. Well maybe I wont Kind Regards, Peter Leroy