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 | | Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a Huguenot leader, supported a war in the Low Countries against Spain as a means to prevent a resumption of civil war, a plan that the French king, Charles IX, was coming to approve in the summer of 1572. |
 | | She accordingly gave her approval to a plot that the Roman Catholic house of Guise had been hatching to assassinate Coligny, whom it held responsible for the murder of François de Guise, who died on his 44th birthday, 24 February 1563, from the wounds inflicted by a Huguenot assassin. |
 | | On 18 August 1572, Catherine's daughter, Margaret of France (Marguerite de Valois), was married to the Huguenot Henri of Navarre (the future Henri IV of France), and a large part of the Huguenot nobility came to Paris for the wedding. |
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