What is Louise de Coligny?
[[Image:Louisecoligny.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Louise de Coligny]] '''Louise de Coligny''' ([[Châtillon-sur-Loing]], 23 September 1555 – [[Fontainebleau]], 9 November 1620) was the fourth wife of Prince [[William the Silent]]. She was the daughter of an important French [[Protestant]] leader, [[Gaspard de Coligny]]. ==Marriage== She married [[Charles de Téligny]] when she was 16 years old in 1571. He was a Protestant diplomat who was also friendly with the French king [[Charles IX]]. Both her father and her husband were killed during the [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]] in 1572. In 1583 she (27) married William the Silent in [[Antwerp]]. She became the [[Princess of Orange]]. Their son [[Frederik Hendrik of Orange|Frederik Hendrik]] was born on 29 January 1584. On the 10th of July that year, William was shot by catholic [[Balthasar Gerards]] and died. ==Later years== She stayed in the Netherlands with her 6 stepdaughters. In 1619, she asked her stepson Maurits to stop the [[execution]] of high-placed [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]], but he did not listen. She then left Holland and went to [[France]] where she (65) died in 1620. On 24 May 1621, she was buried in the crypt of the House of Orange-Nassau in the New Church in [[Delft]]. {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coligny, Louise de}} [[Category:House of Orange-Nassau]] [[Category:Princesses of Orange]] [[Category:1555 births]] [[Category:1620 deaths]]