Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery

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Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, Lord of Lorges and Ducey (French: Gabriel de Lorges, comte de Montgommery; 5 May 1530 – 26 June 1574), was a French nobleman of Scottish extraction and captain of the Scots Guard of King Henry II of France. He is remembered for mortally injuring Henry II in a jousting accident and subsequently converting to Protestantism, the faith that the Scots Guard sought to suppress. He later became a leader of the Huguenots and was executed for his actions in the French Wars of Religion. A survivor of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, he was captured and executed in 1574 after leading an insurrection in Normandy.

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