Jean III d’Aubigné was one of the leading nobles who sided with Condé and La Renaudie in the Protestant (Calvinist) Reform uprisings against the Guises and young King Francis II because of the religious persecution against the Protestants by the throne. D’Aubigné was a central member of the failed Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, a 1560 attempt by Huguenot nobles to gain power in France by abducting Francis II. Married to Mary Queen of Scots, Francis II (son of Henry II) was heavily influenced by his wife's uncles, Francis, Duke of Guise and Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, and the Huguenot plan was to arrest the Guises. Chief among the Huguenots was Godefroy de Barry, seigneur de La Renaudie, of Périgord, and his team consisted of Protestant noblemen representing various regions of France, among whom were: Charles de Castelnau de Chalosse, Bouchard d'Aubeterre, Edme de Ferrière-Maligny, Captains Mazères, Cañizares, Sainte-Marie and Lignières, Jean d'Aubigné and Ardoin de Porcelet. The plot failed and La Renaudie was drawn and quartered.

D'Aubigné was also a participant, three years later, in the Huguenot seige of Orléans in February and March of 1563, the last major military action in the FIrst War of Religion that ended with the assassination of Duke François of Guise. Apparently Jean d'Aubigné was mortally wounded in this siege, and some report that he died either in Orléans or in Amboise from the wounds received at Orléans. It is not know whether he lived long enough to celebrate the Edict of Amboise, which was signed at the Château of Amboise on 19 March 1563 by Catherine de' Medici,who acted as regent for her son Charles IX of France. Not only ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, the treaty guaranteed religious freedoms to the Huguenot Protestants and restored peace to France.

Sources: various Wikipedia entries on the Wars of Religion and http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/siege_orleans_1563.html.

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Jean III d’Aubigné ° (Loudun) + 03/1563 (Amboise, de ses blessures à Orléans)
commandant sous M. de Saint-Cyr (1562), capture Montmorency à la X de Dreux, signataire du Traité de l’Île-aux-Boeufs avec la reine-mère Catherine de Médicis (12/03/1563), Chancelier de la reine de Navarre ép. 1) 02/06/1550 (Blois) Catherine de L’Estang + 08/02/1552 (accouchement lors de la naissance d’Agrippa) dame des Landes-Guinemer (près Blois) (fille de Jean de L’Estang, seigneur des Landes, et d’une demoiselle de La Borde) ép. 2) 1553 Anne de Limur (Limours ?)

from Pattou, p. 13 (see Sources)

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