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Coligny, Odet de

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Coligny, Odet de (c. 1517–1571)

French Protestant leader. He was diplomatic envoy for the Huguenots during the civil war of 1567–68 between Huguenots and Catholics, and went to England to try to obtain English help for the Protestant cause but was poisoned there, probably at Catherine de' Medici's command. He was the brother of Gaspard de Coligny.

He was made a cardinal in 1533, archbishop of Toulouse in 1534, and bishop of Beauvais in 1535. He renounced Catholicism in 1561 and was excommunicated by the pope in 1563.



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