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- Constant d'Aubigné (1585 – 31 August 1647) was a French nobleman, son of Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, the poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler.
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Constant d'Aubigné (1585 – 31 August 1647) was a French nobleman, son of Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, the poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler.
Constant Agrippa d’Aubigné, né vers 1585 et mort à Orange le 31 août 1647, fils d’Agrippa d'Aubigné et de Suzanne de Lusignan de Lezay, est chevalier, seigneur des Landes-Guinemer, baron de Surimeau.
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Born at the Château of Saint-Maury, near Pons, in present-day Charente-Maritime, his father was Jean d'Aubigné, who was involved in the 1560 Huguenot Amboise conspiracy to seize power by staging a palace coup, kidnapping King Francis II of France, and arresting his Catholic advisors. After the defeat of the plot, d'Aubigné's father strengthened his...
His daughter, Madame de Villette, was born in 1584 at Mursay to Suzanne de Lusignan de Lezay; at an early age, on 22 October 1610, she married Benjamin Valois de Vilettein Maillezais. Through Louise, the poet's grandson was Philippe, Marquis de Villette-Mursay, who became an Admiral in the French Navy and whose children were, to his outrage, conver...
Histoire universelle(1616–1618)Les Tragiques(1616)Avantures du Baron de FaenesteConfession catholique du sieur de SancyLinden, Paul, Voice and Witnessing in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques. Dissertation, Emory University, 2003.Fragonard, Marie-Madeleine, La pensée religieuse d'Agrippa d'Aubigné et son expression.Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 53 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004).Junod, Samuel, Agrippa d'Aubigné ou les misères du prophète, (Geneva: Droz), 2008.Works by or about Agrippa d'Aubigné at Internet ArchiveBiography. Constant d'Aubigné, son of the poet Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné and his first wife Suzanne de Lusignan de Lezay. He was first married to Anne Marchant, by whom he had one son, Théodore (1613-1670). In 1619, he murdered Anne and her lover.
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- August 31, 1647
When Constant d'Aubigné de Surimeau was born on 8 February 1585, in Pons, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France, his father, Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, was 33 and his mother, Lady Suzanne de Lusignan de Lezay, was 23.
Apr 25, 2024 · Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné was a major late 16th-century poet, renowned Huguenot captain, polemicist, and historian of his own times. After studies in Paris, Orléans, Geneva, and Lyon, he joined the Huguenot forces and served throughout the Wars of Religion on the battlefield and in the council.
Nov 27, 2015 · True, her paternal grandfather was the distinguished Huguenot poet and patriot Agrippa d’Aubigné, but his son Constant had proved a sore disappointment, and had ended up in prison for conspiring against Cardinal Richelieu.
