Hello Listers, What began as a very casual look at this family now has far more interest due to his wife Charlotte DE LAVAL-MONTFORT, which I will not bore you all with at present. While researching this family I have encountered several implausible records and so I turn to this mailing list for further thought and discussion. There is no doubt that my enquiry is on the Huguenot topic, I am afterall, discussing one Gaspard DE COLIGNY and there is no doubt regarding his loyalty to the cause. My enquiry concerns his wife or is that wives ? I have multiple and very reliable sources for attaching Charlotte DE LAVAL (Montfort) as his wife and mother of his children, 5 sons and 2 daughters. I have read with some doubts that he married for a second time in the year before his death. Supposedly he married Jacqueline D'ENTREMONT Reasons for doubt are that this family was not of similar birthright as the DE COLIGNY and some texts make comment that they were indeed attempting to raise their position in society by wedding anyone with title. There is also a story by a Pere Clarence d'Entremont, Histoire du Cap-Sable de l'an Mil au Traité de Paris (1763), Volume 3, pp. 806-810 where he offers that this supposed second wife adopted a child after the death of Gaspard and from there many on the North American continent seem to be making claim to an attachment to the DE COLIGNY family. And so my enquiry, and please do quote sources that you believe to be reliable. Who married Gaspar (Gaspard) DE COLIGNY born 16th of February, 1518 Chatillon sur Loing, with when and where ? Firstly "IF" the records of the good father are to be taken as absolute , concerning the adoption story, then there are many genealogical records in both Canada and the USA which require correction. And secondly, if there was no second marrage at all then even more records will be incorrect and so the myth will continue. This is not the only such situation to occur with family history study and the longer that confusion remains, the longer the error continues. I seek your historically correct responses to this mystery. Once the genealogy of DE COLIGNY the great hero is confirmed then perhaps a short essay on his great deeds will flow. Kind Regards, Peter Leroy

Hi Peter and all, From: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:35 PM snip > My enquiry concerns his wife or is that wives ? > > I have multiple and very reliable sources for attaching > Charlotte DE LAVAL (Montfort) as his wife and mother of > his children, 5 sons and 2 daughters. > > I have read with some doubts that he married for a > second time in the year before his death. Supposedly he > married Jacqueline D'ENTREMONT > snip > There is also a story by a Pere Clarence d'Entremont, > Histoire du Cap-Sable de l'an Mil au Traité de Paris > (1763), Volume 3, pp. 806-810 where he offers that this > supposed second wife adopted a child after the death of > Gaspard and from there many on the North American > continent seem to be making claim to an attachment to > the DE COLIGNY family. > > And so my enquiry, and please do quote sources that you > believe to be reliable. > > Who married Gaspar (Gaspard) DE COLIGNY born 16th of > February, 1518 Chatillon sur Loing, with when and where ? snip For those who do not have easy access to one of the best sources, viz. Europäische Stammtafeln, then I will suggest a relative new web resource which may well be the best on the web right now for what you want. See: http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00003730&tree=LEO Note that he shows a different birth date than what you found for Gaspard de Coligny. He also shows a dau. born to Coligny's second wife a few months after he was murdered. Is this the one your other source had alleged was adopted? Be sure to click on the Pedagree and Descendancy links at the top of the page. And note his sources at the bottom, which include Europäische Stammtafeln. Regards, Howard [email protected]