Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

Drawer helper in his aims and struggles
than his daughter Louise. A beautiful and
talented woman, she was as courageous as
she was devoted. Through all the bitter
ness and terror of religious feuds she re-
manned unterrifed and Steadfast.
She married one of her fathers truest
comrades Charles de Theligny, who had
fought by Gaspard de Colignys side in al
most all his wars.
In the night of ST. Bartholomew, August
81 1872 her father and her husband were
both massacred.
She herself escaped only as by a miracle
and managed to reach Switzerland, where
the Calvinists paid her great honor. There,
despite the horrors through which she had
| passed. she remained a powerful and influ-
! entail factor in the growth of the new faith
Finally she was permitted to return to
Lierville, her husbands estate, and she lived
| there for some years in peace. But all her
| efforts to obtain honorable burial for her
| martyred father were futile. After the mob
| had dragged his body through the streets
! the government issued an ed;ct that the
| dead man was to be hanged In the place OF
| execution 1t was 1899 before it was possible
| to bury the admiral in his home in Chatil-
| lon.
Wife of William of Orange.
| In 1888 Louise married again. Her second
husband was the great William of Orange.
| Once more she went through years of war
| and terror for her faith. Bravely she re-
| manned by the side of her brave husband.
| And again it was her lot to see her beloved
| killed before her eyes, when the Infamous
| Balthazar Gerard assassinated him to win
| the reward offered by the Spaniards.
| William and Louise had a son, Frederick
Henry. His daughter, Louise Henrietta OF
| Orange-Nassau, became the wife Of Fred
| erick William, elector of Brandenburg, sur
| named the Great Elector.
| 1t was his father the Elector George
| WI M initiated the DOllcy of
| grandizement of territory which has raised
| the house of Hohenzollern to it's present
, commanding and unique position.
| The great elector obtained the duchy OF
| Prussia from the King of Poland, and finally
! he annexed Magdeburg, Minden and a
great part of Pommerania.
| While the kaiser is justified in being as
| proud as he is of having the Admiral de
| Coligny for an ancestor, he may be equally
proud of having Louise de Coigny for an
| cestress. There have been many famous
| statesmen who were not as wise and able as
| she was
| 1t was she who brought about the final
| declaration of peace and friendship between
| the Duke of Bouillon and Henry w, work
| which gave Europe much needed peace at
| critical time.
1t was Louise de Coligny who achieved
the establishment of twelveyear arms
| tice between the united Netherlands anG
| Spain.
She inherited the love of peace and tolera
ton from her great father. But despite al
| her work she lived to have her last years
| embittered as her early ones had been, fol
| feud and war raved around her when she
| died at the age of fifty-six in Fontainbleau
In 164S Chatillon was raised to duchy
in favor of the nephew of Louises brother
Franz. This nephew bore his brave ances
tors name of Gaspard de Coligny, but hi
had only one son, who died without issue
So, in 1861, the male line Of the Coligny.
| persisted and Chatillon fell to the Mont
morencys.
The Coligny castle did not belong to the
family until 1881 when Katherine de Sa
| ligny brought the castle into the Colgny
family as her dowry when she married
| William III of Coligny.
The Colignys We're native to the casts Of
France, close to the boundaries of Savoy
They were a branch of the Dukes of Bur
gundy, so the kaiser could doubt ge
heralds to find for him that he is per
mitted to display the Burgundan eagle il
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