Coligny

Coligny may refer to:

People

• Coligny Brainerd Metheny (1889-1960), played football and basketball for Carnegie Tech
• House of Coligny, a French noble family, and its most famous members:
  • Gaspard I de Coligny (1465/1470–1522), known as the Marshal of Châtillon, a French soldier
  • Odet de Coligny (1517–1571), French cardinal of Châtillon, bishop of Beauvais
  • Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572), Seigneur (Lord) de Châtillon, admiral of France and Protestant leader
  • François de Coligny d'Andelot (1521–1569), one of the leaders of French Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion
  • Louise de Coligny (1555-1620), daughter of Gaspard II de Coligny
  • François de Coligny (1557–1591), Protestant general during the Wars of Religion
  • Gaspard III de Coligny (1584–1646), Protestant general
  • Jean de Coligny-Saligny (1617–1686), French nobleman and army commander
  • Henriette de Coligny de La Suze (1618-1673), French writer

Places

• Coligny, Ain, a commune in France
  • Canton of Coligny, an administrative division in the Ain department, France, disbanded in 2015
• Colligny, formerly spelled Coligny, a municipality in the Moselle department, France
• Coligny, North West, a maize farming town near Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa
• Coligny Beach Park, an oceanside park with landscaped walking & biking paths on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Other

• Coligny calendar, a 1st-century lunisolar calendar
• Coligny Commando, a light infantry regiment of the South African Army
• Fort Coligny, a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555
• Coligny-Welch signal lamp, as used on Railway semaphore signal

See also

• Cologny
• Cologna (disambiguation)
• Cologne (disambiguation)
• Cologno (disambiguation)

1. Gaspard II de Coligny
2. St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
3. Coligny calendar
4. Assassination of Admiral Coligny
5. Coligny, Ain
6. Coligny, South Africa
7. Duc de Châtillon
8. Fort Coligny
9. House of Coligny
10. Châtillon-Coligny
11. Charles IX of France
12. Georgina Brandolini d'Adda
13. Celtic calendar
14. Louise de Coligny
15. Gaspard de Coligny
16. Canton of Coligny
17. Samhain
18. Château de Châtillon-Coligny
19. First French War of Religion (1562–1563)
20. Kali Yuga