Constant d'Aubigné

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Constant d'Aubigné (1584 or 1585 - 31 August 1647) was a French nobleman, son of Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, the poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. Born into a Huguenot family, Constant lead a less strictured life, first embracing Protestantism and then the Catholic causes, visiting England and then in 1626 betraying the Protestants by revealing English plans to take La Rochelle. As a result he was disinherited by his father.

D'Aubigné married Ann Marchant on 20 October [[1608 They had two sons, Théodulfe (born 1609; died young) and Agrippa-Théodore (born 1613). The first Madame d'Aubigné died in 1619.

D'Aubigné married secondly Jeanne de Cardillac in 1627. In addition to sons Constant (born 1628) and Charles (born 1634), their marriage in 1635 produced a daughter Françoise, who married first the aging playwright Paul Scarron and later, secretly, Louis XIV.

Richelieu had d'Aubigné and his family imprisoned at Niort in 1629 for correspondence with the English. Released in 1639 following the death of Richelieu, the family went to the French West Indies, where d'Aubigné had been made governor of Marie-Galante, though he and his family remained on Martinique. d'Aubigné returned around 1645, nearly destitute, and died in 1647. His wife and children returned to France the same year.