his foe was dead he and his company left the corpse and went on to their next target. As the massacre proper began the militant mob then cut off the genitals, head and hands and dragged the body around for the following days as they had a model of Coligny years prior. Over the next few hours a general massacre would develop, fomented by the city militia and radicals among the population. It would consume first Paris, and then spread to various other cities around France. Coligny's papers were seized and burned by the queen mother; among them, according to Brantôme, was a history of the civil war, "very fair and well-written, and worthy of publication". Marriages and issue By his first wife, Charlotte de Laval (1530–1568), Gaspard had: Louise, who married first Charles de Téligny and afterwards William the Silent, Prince of Orange; François, Admiral of Guienne, who was one of the devoted servants of Henry IV (Gaspard de Coligny (1584–1646), son of this François, was Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIII); and Charles (1564–1632), Marquis d'Andelot, a Lieutenant General in Champagne. By his second wife, Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont (1541–1588), the Countess d'Entremont and Launay-Gelin, Gaspard had one daughter, Beatrice, who became Beatrice de Coligny (born 1572), Countess d'Entremont. Legacy Several places are named after de Coligny: Coligny, South Africa Fort Coligny, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Châtillon-Coligny, in France Coligny Plaza, Hilton Head Island Coligni (misspelled) Avenue, New Rochelle, New York Family tree References Sources Jean du Bouchet, Preuves de l'histoire généalogique de l'illustre maison de Coligny (Paris, 1661) François Hotman, Vita Colinii (1575), translated as La vie de messire Gaspar de Colligny Admiral de France, (1643; facsimile edition prepared by Émile-V. Telle (Geneva: Droz) 1987). L. J. Delaborde, Gaspard de Coligny (1879–1882) Erich Marcks, Gaspard von Coligny, sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit (Stuttgart, 1892) H. Patry, "Coligny et la Papauté," in the Bulletin du protestantisme français (1902) Arthur Whiston Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France (1904) Charles Merki, L'Amiral de Coligny (1909). A Paris colloquy on Admiral de Coligny and his times in 1972 resulted in a volume of essays, Actes du colloque l'Amiral de Coligny et son temps (Paris) 1974. 1519 births 1572 deaths 1572 crimes Converts to Calvinism from Roman Catholicism French people of the French Wars of Religion Admirals of France Coligny, Gaspard de Coligny, Gaspard de