COLIGNY, Gaspard II de, Sieur de Châtillon, Admiral (1517-1572, protestant leader). Autograph letter signed ('Chastillon') to Catherine de Medicis ('A la Dame'), La Rochelle, 15 January 1571, on a bifolium, 1½ pages, folio , addressed 'A La Reyne Mere du Roy', papered seal (slightly browned in bottom and outer edges, seal slits, a few small tears in right hand edge of 1st leaf, contemporary docket on verso, annotation in a later hand in top left hand corner of 1st page).
COLIGNY, Gaspard II de, Sieur de Châtillon, Admiral (1517-1572, protestant leader). Autograph letter signed ('Chastillon') to Catherine de Medicis ('A la Dame'), La Rochelle, 15 January 1571, on a bifolium, 1½ pages, folio , addressed 'A La Reyne Mere du Roy', papered seal (slightly browned in bottom and outer edges, seal slits, a few small tears in right hand edge of 1st leaf, contemporary docket on verso, annotation in a later hand in top left hand corner of 1st page). An impassioned reply to a letter in which Catherine required the Queen of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret) and the Princes of Navarre and Condé to come to her Court saying that it was necessary for the good of the country, complaining of the 'peu de credit, auctorite et co[m]mandement quelles ont en ce royaulme, et quil faille que les artifices pratiques, et menees de ceulx qui ont si ben co[m]mance a le ruiner, puisse[n]t maintena[n]t achever'. Coligny urges Catherine and Charles IX ('Voz ma[ies]tes'), to take note of information conveyed by Sieur de Quincay and the bearer of the present letter, Sieur d'Argenson, and protests on his own account at the violations of the edict: 'Que particulieremant ie ne me puys garder de me plaindre, et pour moy et pour les miens, Veu la facon de la quelle mes freres et moy avons este traictes, et que lon continue encores pour le present, et que cela ne se peult faire que oultre la perte de noz biens ... il semble que tacitement on nous veuille priver du benefice de ledict'. An interval of religious toleration had ended when Catherine turned to the Duc de Guise for help, and the Edict of Saint Germain (1570) was followed by sporadic massacres of Huguenots, even as Charles IX began to show sympathy to Coligny. Jeanne d'Albret had written to Catherine on 2 January referring to a memorandum sent with Quincay, and protesting that promises made to her and Henry of Navarre had not been kept. Jeanne d'Albret finally left for Blois at the end of January, to discuss the marriage of Henry of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, Catherine's daughter.
COLIGNY, Gaspard II de, Sieur de Châtillon, Admiral (1517-1572, protestant leader). Autograph letter signed ('Chastillon') to Catherine de Medicis ('A la Dame'), La Rochelle, 15 January 1571, on a bifolium, 1½ pages, folio , addressed 'A La Reyne Mere du Roy', papered seal (slightly browned in bottom and outer edges, seal slits, a few small tears in right hand edge of 1st leaf, contemporary docket on verso, annotation in a later hand in top left hand corner of 1st page).
COLIGNY, Gaspard II de, Sieur de Châtillon, Admiral (1517-1572, protestant leader). Autograph letter signed ('Chastillon') to Catherine de Medicis ('A la Dame'), La Rochelle, 15 January 1571, on a bifolium, 1½ pages, folio , addressed 'A La Reyne Mere du Roy', papered seal (slightly browned in bottom and outer edges, seal slits, a few small tears in right hand edge of 1st leaf, contemporary docket on verso, annotation in a later hand in top left hand corner of 1st page). An impassioned reply to a letter in which Catherine required the Queen of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret) and the Princes of Navarre and Condé to come to her Court saying that it was necessary for the good of the country, complaining of the 'peu de credit, auctorite et co[m]mandement quelles ont en ce royaulme, et quil faille que les artifices pratiques, et menees de ceulx qui ont si ben co[m]mance a le ruiner, puisse[n]t maintena[n]t achever'. Coligny urges Catherine and Charles IX ('Voz ma[ies]tes'), to take note of information conveyed by Sieur de Quincay and the bearer of the present letter, Sieur d'Argenson, and protests on his own account at the violations of the edict: 'Que particulieremant ie ne me puys garder de me plaindre, et pour moy et pour les miens, Veu la facon de la quelle mes freres et moy avons este traictes, et que lon continue encores pour le present, et que cela ne se peult faire que oultre la perte de noz biens ... il semble que tacitement on nous veuille priver du benefice de ledict'. An interval of religious toleration had ended when Catherine turned to the Duc de Guise for help, and the Edict of Saint Germain (1570) was followed by sporadic massacres of Huguenots, even as Charles IX began to show sympathy to Coligny. Jeanne d'Albret had written to Catherine on 2 January referring to a memorandum sent with Quincay, and protesting that promises made to her and Henry of Navarre had not been kept. Jeanne d'Albret finally left for Blois at the end of January, to discuss the marriage of Henry of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, Catherine's daughter.
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