Sire Manassas de Coligny ( - 863)
is my 31st great grandfather
from Coligny, Ain, Rhone-Alpes, France
see map at bottom of page
Sire Manassas II de Coligny ( - 923)
Sire Manassas III de Coligny
Sire Manasses IV de Coligny
Sire Manasses V de Coligny ( - 1086)
Seigneur Manasses VI de Coligny (1050 - 1090) – Adelaide de Savoie
Seigneur Humbert de Coligny (1088 - 1190)
Seigneur Guerric I de Coligny ( - 1161)
Seigneur Humbert II de Coligny (1120 - 1190) – Ida de Burgundy
Humbert III De Coligny (1170 - 1205) – Beatrice de Viennois de Albon
is my 31st great grandfather
from Coligny, Ain, Rhone-Alpes, France
see map at bottom of page
Sire Manassas II de Coligny ( - 923)
Sire Manassas III de Coligny
Sire Manasses IV de Coligny
Sire Manasses V de Coligny ( - 1086)
Seigneur Manasses VI de Coligny (1050 - 1090) – Adelaide de Savoie
Seigneur Humbert de Coligny (1088 - 1190)
Seigneur Guerric I de Coligny ( - 1161)
Seigneur Humbert II de Coligny (1120 - 1190) – Ida de Burgundy
Humbert III De Coligny (1170 - 1205) – Beatrice de Viennois de Albon
Chateau d'Andelot
- believed to have been built by Humbert III de Coligny
Chateau d'Andelot website
Chateau d'Andelot today
- believed to have been built by Humbert III de Coligny
Chateau d'Andelot website
Chateau d'Andelot today
Amedee De Coligny (1206 - ) - Alix Criseaux
Etienne De Coligny (1235 - ) – Isabel Forcarquier
Jean De Coligny (1269 - 1309) – Jeanne de La Roche De Vaneau
Etienne De Coligny (1309 - 1342) – Elenore de Thoire Villars
Jean De Coligny (1335 - 1397) – Marie Kekerge
Jacques De Coligny (1369 - 1413) – Hugnette de La Baume
Guilaume De Coligny (1412 - 1457) – Catherine Lourdin de Saligny
Jean De Coligny (1440 - 1481) – Eleonore de Courcelles
Gaspard De Coligny I Marshall of Chatillon (1470 - 1522) –
Duchess Louise Marie de Montmorency
Etienne De Coligny (1235 - ) – Isabel Forcarquier
Jean De Coligny (1269 - 1309) – Jeanne de La Roche De Vaneau
Etienne De Coligny (1309 - 1342) – Elenore de Thoire Villars
Jean De Coligny (1335 - 1397) – Marie Kekerge
Jacques De Coligny (1369 - 1413) – Hugnette de La Baume
Guilaume De Coligny (1412 - 1457) – Catherine Lourdin de Saligny
Jean De Coligny (1440 - 1481) – Eleonore de Courcelles
Gaspard De Coligny I Marshall of Chatillon (1470 - 1522) –
Duchess Louise Marie de Montmorency
Admiral Gaspard De Coligny II my 12th great grandfather (1516-1572) in Chatillon, Allier, Auvergne, France He married Jacqueline DeMontbel Was a courageous leader of the Protestant Reform Church. He died at the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (see story below) Father of Beatrice De Coligny My 11th great grandmother |
Nicolas Mius (1540 - 1572) - Jeanne De Meullon
also my 12th great grandfather
born in Gryon, Switzerland
His son Claude married Admiral de Coligny's daughter Beatrice
In 1557 Nicolas was registered at the University of Orleans in Paris, France.
Nicolas was a German/Swiss interpreter for Admiral de Coligny.
In Paris on August25, 1572, the Admiral was a victim of the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre. The admiral is quoted as saying "My friends, there is nothing I can do to rescue you. I voluntarily receive my death in the hands of God. Save yourselves."
At that time he had several people at his service including Nicolas Mius.
Everyone left except for Nicolas who stayed at the Admiral's side and was
murdered with him. The slaughter of French Huguenots quickly spread to
the provinces and about 20,000 Huguenots were ultimately killed by
Roman Catholic mobs. Huguenots was another name for the
Protestant Reformed, followers of the writings of John Calvin.
The prime responsibility for the massacre was borne by Catherine de Medici, who opposed the influence of the Protestant leader, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
over her weak son, King Charles IX.
Huguenots - O.I.A. Roche writes "a combination of a Flemish and a German word. In the Flemish North of France, Bible students who gathered in each other's houses to study secretly were called Huis Genooten ('housemates') while on the Swiss and German borders they were termed Eid Genossen, or 'oath fellows,' that is, persons bound
to each other by an oath. Gallicised into 'Huguenot', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honour and courage."
also my 12th great grandfather
born in Gryon, Switzerland
His son Claude married Admiral de Coligny's daughter Beatrice
In 1557 Nicolas was registered at the University of Orleans in Paris, France.
Nicolas was a German/Swiss interpreter for Admiral de Coligny.
In Paris on August25, 1572, the Admiral was a victim of the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre. The admiral is quoted as saying "My friends, there is nothing I can do to rescue you. I voluntarily receive my death in the hands of God. Save yourselves."
At that time he had several people at his service including Nicolas Mius.
Everyone left except for Nicolas who stayed at the Admiral's side and was
murdered with him. The slaughter of French Huguenots quickly spread to
the provinces and about 20,000 Huguenots were ultimately killed by
Roman Catholic mobs. Huguenots was another name for the
Protestant Reformed, followers of the writings of John Calvin.
The prime responsibility for the massacre was borne by Catherine de Medici, who opposed the influence of the Protestant leader, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
over her weak son, King Charles IX.
Huguenots - O.I.A. Roche writes "a combination of a Flemish and a German word. In the Flemish North of France, Bible students who gathered in each other's houses to study secretly were called Huis Genooten ('housemates') while on the Swiss and German borders they were termed Eid Genossen, or 'oath fellows,' that is, persons bound
to each other by an oath. Gallicised into 'Huguenot', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honour and courage."
Admiral de Coligny my 12th g grandfather Catherin de' Medici | Painting by François Dubois, a Huguenot painter born circa 1529 in Amiens, who settled in Switzerland. Although Dubois did not witness the massacre, he depicts Admiral Coligny's body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Château du Louvre to inspect a heap of bodies. Huguenot Cross Reformed Church of France is descended from the Huguenots |
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The wedding of the Protestant Henry, King of Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois, the King's sister brought a great number of Huguenot notables to Paris, and political and religious tensions were running extremely high.
On 22 August 1572, the day after the end of the wedding festivities, Admiral Coligny was walking back to his rooms from the Louvre when a shot rang out from a house and wounded him in the hand and arm. A smoking arquebus was discovered in a window,
but the culprit had made his escape from the rear of the building on a waiting horse. Coligny was carried to his lodgings at the Hôtel de Béthisy, where the surgeon
Ambroise Paré removed a bullet from his elbow and amputated a damaged finger
with a pair of scissors. Catherine, who was said to have received the news without emotion, made a tearful visit to Coligny and promised to punish his attacker.
Many historians have blamed Catherine for the attack on Coligny.
Others point to the Guise family or a Spanish-papal plot to end Coligny's
influence on the king. Whatever the truth, the bloodbath that followed was
soon beyond the control of Catherine or any other leader.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, which began two days later, has stained
Catherine's reputation ever since. There is no reason to believe she was not
party to the decision when on 23 August Charles IX ordered, "Then kill them all!
Kill them all!". The thinking was clear. Catherine and her advisers expected
a Huguenot uprising to avenge the attack on Coligny. They chose therefore to
strike first and wipe out the Huguenot leaders while they were still in Paris
after the wedding. The slaughter in Paris lasted for almost a week.
It spread to many parts of France, where it persisted into the autumn.
In the words of historian Jules Michelet, "St Bartholomew was not a day, but a season". On 29 September, when Navarre knelt before the altar as a Roman Catholic,
having converted to avoid being killed, Catherine turned to the ambassadors and laughed. From this time dates the legend of the wicked Italian queen.
Huguenot writers branded Catherine a scheming Italian, who had acted on
Machiavelli's principles to kill all enemies in one blow.
See the YouTube video
The wedding of the Protestant Henry, King of Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois, the King's sister brought a great number of Huguenot notables to Paris, and political and religious tensions were running extremely high.
On 22 August 1572, the day after the end of the wedding festivities, Admiral Coligny was walking back to his rooms from the Louvre when a shot rang out from a house and wounded him in the hand and arm. A smoking arquebus was discovered in a window,
but the culprit had made his escape from the rear of the building on a waiting horse. Coligny was carried to his lodgings at the Hôtel de Béthisy, where the surgeon
Ambroise Paré removed a bullet from his elbow and amputated a damaged finger
with a pair of scissors. Catherine, who was said to have received the news without emotion, made a tearful visit to Coligny and promised to punish his attacker.
Many historians have blamed Catherine for the attack on Coligny.
Others point to the Guise family or a Spanish-papal plot to end Coligny's
influence on the king. Whatever the truth, the bloodbath that followed was
soon beyond the control of Catherine or any other leader.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, which began two days later, has stained
Catherine's reputation ever since. There is no reason to believe she was not
party to the decision when on 23 August Charles IX ordered, "Then kill them all!
Kill them all!". The thinking was clear. Catherine and her advisers expected
a Huguenot uprising to avenge the attack on Coligny. They chose therefore to
strike first and wipe out the Huguenot leaders while they were still in Paris
after the wedding. The slaughter in Paris lasted for almost a week.
It spread to many parts of France, where it persisted into the autumn.
In the words of historian Jules Michelet, "St Bartholomew was not a day, but a season". On 29 September, when Navarre knelt before the altar as a Roman Catholic,
having converted to avoid being killed, Catherine turned to the ambassadors and laughed. From this time dates the legend of the wicked Italian queen.
Huguenot writers branded Catherine a scheming Italian, who had acted on
Machiavelli's principles to kill all enemies in one blow.
See the YouTube video
After the Admiral's death, his wife, the Countess felt indebted to the
children of Nicolas. She took under her protection a son of Nicolas. (Claude Mius Demeuion d’Entremont.) The boy was actually placed under the care
of Jacqueline's mother, the Countess Beatrice Bacheoc-d'Entremont of the House of Montbel d'Entremont of Savioe. The name of d'Entremont was
then added to his surname Mius. This was Jacqueline's wish, since she
was the only child who survived her parents’ marriage, and had only a daughter from her marriage to the Admiral.
Claude Mius Demeuilon D'Entremont (1566 - 1662) -
Beatrice de Coligny
Baron Philippe Mius D'Entremont (1609 - 1700) – Madeleine Helie
Baron Philippe Mius d’Entremont was born in Cherbourg, Normandy and came
from a longtime noble family, and was brought to Acadia with his family in 1651
by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. The governor in
July 1653 awarded him one of the few fiefs to constitute territory in North America,
the Barony of Poboncoup, extending from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth),
and in 1670 appointed him lieutenant-major and commander of the king’s troops,
and procureur du roi (crown attorney), which post he retained until 1687.
He was briefly captured in 1654 by Major Robert Sedgwick, during the latter's pass through Acadia, but resurfaced with his family following this English occupation.
d’Entremont was important to the colony's history as an administrator, and because
he promoted agriculture on his seigneury. The settlement and d'Entremont's
residence were established at Pubnico, the modern spelling of Poboncoup.
Baron Philippe Mius D'Entremont
children of Nicolas. She took under her protection a son of Nicolas. (Claude Mius Demeuion d’Entremont.) The boy was actually placed under the care
of Jacqueline's mother, the Countess Beatrice Bacheoc-d'Entremont of the House of Montbel d'Entremont of Savioe. The name of d'Entremont was
then added to his surname Mius. This was Jacqueline's wish, since she
was the only child who survived her parents’ marriage, and had only a daughter from her marriage to the Admiral.
Claude Mius Demeuilon D'Entremont (1566 - 1662) -
Beatrice de Coligny
Baron Philippe Mius D'Entremont (1609 - 1700) – Madeleine Helie
Baron Philippe Mius d’Entremont was born in Cherbourg, Normandy and came
from a longtime noble family, and was brought to Acadia with his family in 1651
by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. The governor in
July 1653 awarded him one of the few fiefs to constitute territory in North America,
the Barony of Poboncoup, extending from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth),
and in 1670 appointed him lieutenant-major and commander of the king’s troops,
and procureur du roi (crown attorney), which post he retained until 1687.
He was briefly captured in 1654 by Major Robert Sedgwick, during the latter's pass through Acadia, but resurfaced with his family following this English occupation.
d’Entremont was important to the colony's history as an administrator, and because
he promoted agriculture on his seigneury. The settlement and d'Entremont's
residence were established at Pubnico, the modern spelling of Poboncoup.
Baron Philippe Mius D'Entremont
Marguerite D'Entremont (1650 - 1714) – Pierre Melanson La Verdure
Pierre was the founder of Grand Pre, Canada
Philippe Charles Melanson (1666 - 1744) – Marie Catherine Dugas
Anne Marie Melanson (1710 - 1764) – Charles Alexis Thibodeau
Paul Oliver Thibodeau (1735 - 1776) – Marie Bourg
John (Jean) Babtiste Thibodeau (1755 - 1822) – Marquerite Rheault
Pierre Thibodeau (1785 - 1860) – Margaret Minnie Middaugh
Peter Edward Thibodeau (1828 - 1864) – Louisa Jeanette Stevens
Cynthia Margaret Ann "Maggie" Thibodeau (1859 - 1937) –
William Bain
Melissa Isabelle (Belle) Bain (1886 - 1964) – William Peter (Pete) Barbarick
Eva Cora Barbarick (1904 - 2008) – Harold Alan Rightmyer
Robert Roy Rightmyer (1935 - ) – Janice Doris Jackson
Karen Ann Rightmyer