Guy XX de Laval

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Guy XX de Laval, François de Coligny (6 May 1585 – 3 December 1605) was the Count of

Laval (Mayenne) and Baron of Quintin. He was son of Guy XIX de Laval and Anne d'Algère
.

In 1588, Anne d'Algère took him to

Catholicism
.

Near the end of 1605 he led an expedition in Hungary against the Turks and died in combat on December 3 of that year.

He was the last Count of Laval to take the name of Guy.

See also

Bibliography

  • Malcolm Walsby, The Counts of Laval: Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century France (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007)