Constant d'Aubigné

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Constant d'Aubigné (1584 or 1585 - 31 August 1647) was a French nobleman.

Constant's father was Agrippa d'Aubigné, a soldier and man of letters. Born a Huguenot, Constant played both the Protestant and Catholic causes, visiting England and then in 1626 betraying the Protestants by revealing English plans to take La Rochelle.

Constant d'Aubigné married Ann Marchant on the 7th of October 1608 and they had (to the best of knowledge) one child, Theodore d'Aubigné. Theodore would later have a son, Cornelius, who would have a daughter, Mary Dabney, born in 1685, who married into the prolific Winston Family. She and her husband Isaac had Sarah Winston who is in fact the mother of Patrick Henry (the American Patriot) and William Henry (the American Briber) and some other female children.

Constant d'Aubigné married Jeanne de Cardillac in 1627. Their marriage produced one issue, a daughter Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon who later married Louis XIV.

Richelieu had him and his family imprisoned at Niort in 1629; after their release in 1639, the family went to Martinique. They returned around 1645, nearly destitute, and Constant died soon after.