House of Coligny

See also: Coligny

Line of high ranking, the house of Coligny is one of oldest of the French Noblesse.

Exit of the kings and sovereign counts of Burgundy, it held sovereignty on one of the steps of the franque Burgundy: the Revermont, whose Coligny (Ain) was the chief town. This house belonged to rare the Princes de Bourgogne ( principles regni Burgundiæ ).

It became " française" in XVe century, by the possession of the seigniory of Châtillon-on-Loing inherited by the marriage (1432) Guillaume de Coligny with Catherine de Saligny.

Currently, all the European royal families, as well as the greatest part of the high aristocracy, go down (by female way) from the house of Coligny. Indeed, these royal families have all, among their ancestors, William of Orange, known as the Silent one, and his wife Louise de Coligny (girl of Gaspard II admiral de France).

Origin

There are two assumptions concerning the origin of the house of Coligny:

  • first assumption: the lords de Coligny being known as of Xe century, they are attached to famous Manassès Burgundian of which they would be a branch. It is the assumption suggested as of XVIIsiècle by the Jean historian Of Bouchet, author of the History of the famous house of Coligny (1662). This assumption, purely genealogical, is based on a small number of acts, moreover dubious.

  • second assumption: the house of Coligny draws its origin from the Counts de Bourgogne. Revermont, indeed, was part of the Royaume of Burgundy; it was held in all sovereignty, with all the rights of justice (of which the spring and the call, constitutive of real sovereignty). This second assumption, formulated by Roch de Coligny at the end of the XXe century, is based on the analysis of several thousands of medieval acts concerning Revermont, the Bresse and generally Burgundy. It comes from a not genealogical, but especially territorial and historical approach. It has a very great probability.

Grounds and titles of Revermont

The house of Coligny had under various titles the various parts of the ground of Coligny, because the Principauté of Coligny was divided thereafter at the descendants of the Seigneurs of Coligny. One finds in particular:

  • the branch of the lords of Coligny-the-Old man. This ground became the Marquisat de Coligny

  • the branch of the lords of Coligny-le-Neuf. This ground, the Baronnie de Coligny, became the Comté of Coligny, then the Duché of Coligny

The various titrated grounds of Coligny are thus:

The other grounds held in Revermont by the house of Coligny, are:

Grounds and titles in other areas

By the marriage (1432) of Guillaume lord of Coligny with Catherine de Saligny, the house of Coligny inherited the following grounds:

The house of Coligny also had the following grounds:

Branches and Characters

During centuries, the family of Coligny gave people of great value:

  • of the feudal lords
  • of the knights
  • of cross the
  • of the famous war leaders
  • three Marshals of France
  • a cardinal
  • an admiral of France, founder of the town of Rio de Janeiro
  • a knight of the Holy Spirit
  • several brigadiers
  • a lieutenant-general of the armies of the King, victorious of the Turks.
  • two colonel-generals of the French infantry
  • three dukes and pars of France
  • of the priests, priors, abbesses
  • of the knights of Malta
  • a person died in odor of holiness
  • etc

Medieval branch

Among the lords of Coligny to XIIe and XIIIe century, one notices in particular:

Connect lords of Chastillon

After its installation in France, the elder branch of the house of Coligny had the seigniory of Châtillon-on-Loing.

Some of Coligny of this branch embraced the Reform during the Wars of religion and fought the Guise at the sides of Henri IV. The other family members remained catholic. As of the middle of the XVIIe century, the Protestant branch became again catholic, except for Anne de Coligny woman of the duke of Wurtemberg.

Connect lords of Saligny

Connect lords of Cressia

  • Clériadus de Coligny

Reunification with the house of Pile of Chenecey de Coligny

The back-small-girl of Gaspard III of Coligny married (1747) Thomas de Pillot lord of Chenecey, chief of the Maison of Pile. It became Count de Coligny and Marquis de Coligny. It is that, like his wife, Thomas descended from the very first Princes de Coligny. By this marriage, the two parts of Coligny (Coligny-the-Old man and Coligny-le-Neuf) were again joined together in the hand of a noble family which could pride itself to go down from the former lords de Coligny. The loop was buckled. From now on, the grounds, weapons, titles and other goods of the antique house of Coligny are held by the house of Pile of Coligny.

  • Thomas de Pillot of Chenecey Count de Coligny and Marquis de Coligny

  • Raoul de Pillot, Count de Coligny, Marquis de Coligny

Heraldic

Weapons

The weapons of the house of Coligny are mouths with a money eagle, crowned, beakful and membrée of azure . These weapons are reproduced on the seals of the lords de Coligny as of the middle of the 12th century.

Tardily, one added lampassée and gold fingers numb with cold.

After fusion in the line of Pile of Chenecey, the weapons were quartered:

  • to the 1 and 4, of Pile: of azure with three versed spearheads of money
  • to the 2 and 3, of Coligny: as above
  • on the whole, of the Holy Empire: of gold to the bicephalous sand eagle.

Charles de Coligny carried Ecartelé: I and to the IV of mouths to the money lampassée membrée and crowned beakful eagle azure, to II and III of gold to the cross of mouths confined of twelve let us alérions of azure ordered 2 and 2 and charged with five money shells, the first canton of azure sown flowers of gold lily charged with a gold lion also (grandson, by its Charlotte mother, of Nicolas of Montfort-Laval says Guy XVI of Laval and grandson, by its father of Louise de Montmorency (+1541), girl of Guillaume, baron de Montmorency (+1531)).

Cimiers and entours

  • summoning the ecu: a ducal crown from where issit a money eagle crowned & beakful of azure; a surmounted heaume of a Sagittarius drawing with dextral.

  • support: two coupled money greyhounds of mouths.
  • coat of par of France

Currencies and cries

  • Currency of the house of Coligny: IE ESPREVVE TOVS

  • Currency of the house of Pile: DRAW RIGHT
  • Cri: HIGH THE LANCE, PILE!

Since the fusion of the two houses, these three maxims, as well as the cry of the house of Coligny, are reproduced on the large weapons.

External bonds

Site of the heraldist Arnaud Bunel : a page on the heraldic one of the house of Coligny

Toponyms

Cité de Coligny in Ain

Named places Coligny in the honor of this family

One finds three other communes and a fort, to which it name of Coligny was given in the honor of the family of Coligny:

in France

in Kabylie
  • Coligny , commune of Kabylie, in the old French departments of Algeria (zip code: 93717); village thus named in 1872 in the honor of the admiral de Coligny of which it was the third centenary of death. Now named Bouira.

in South Africa

in Brazil
  • the founded Fort-Coligny in the name of the Admiral de Coligny by Villegagnon, in bay of Janeiro.

Other homonymous places

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