High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, of the House of Coligny ( 26 July 1584, Montpellier-4 January 1646, Châtillon), comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing, then duc de Coligny, marquis d'Andelot, Peer of France, Marshal of France (1622), was a French Protestant general. He was the son of François de Coligny (1557-1591) and his wife Marguerite d'Ailly, and the grandson of admiral Gaspard de Coligny. During the Thirty Years' War, he won the Battle of Les Avins against a Spanish army under Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignan. On 6 July 1641, Gaspard de Coligny commanded the army of Louis XIII at the Battle of La Marfée, where he was defeated.