page_title: Gaspard II de Coligny
hierarchical_section_title: Gaspard II de Coligny
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Gaspard de Coligny (1517-1572). Part of the Leeuwarden series, a series of portraits of military officials from the Eighty Years' War as well as members of the House of Orange-Nassau, first documented in 1633 in the Stadhouderlijk Hof (Stadholder's Court) in Leeuwarden (see Object history).
context_page_description: Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and Admiral of France, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend of—and advisor to—the French king, Charles IX.
context_section_description: Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon (16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman and Admiral of France, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend of—and advisor to—the French king, Charles IX.
caption: Portrait by Jan van Ravesteyn
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