Anthony II, Count of Ligny (d. 8 February 1557) was the son of Count
Charles I and his wife Charlotte of Estouteville. In 1530, he succeeded his father as Count of
Ligny
Ligny (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sombreffe, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an '' ancienne commune'' of So ...
and
Brienne.
In 1535, he married Margaret, a daughter of
René of Savoy, Count of Villars. They had the following children:
*
John III (d. 1576)
*
François
François () is a French language, French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis (given name), Francis.
People with the given name
* François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter
* Voltaire, Fran ...
* Anthony (d. 1573)
* Henry
* Madeleine (d. 1588), married Christophe Jouvenel des Ursins. Marquis de
Traînel
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Year of birth unknown
1557 deaths
Counts of Ligny
Counts of Brienne
House of Luxembourg
16th-century French nobility