Jean VI d'Aumont | |
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| Seigneur de Aumont | |
 Equestrian portrait of Jean VI, from the Musée Condé | |
| Other titles | Marshal of France |
| Born | January 1522 Châteauroux, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 19 August 1595 (aged 73) Château de Comper, Kingdom of France |
| Family | Maison d'Aumont |
| Spouse(s) | Antoinette Chabot |
| Father | Pierre III d'Aumont |
| Mother | Françoise de Sully |
Jean VI d'Aumont (1522-1595) was a soldier and Marshal of France. He served as Marshal under Henri III, campaigning against the Protestants in 1585. He would not however conduct the campaign with much enthusiasm, and after clamour at court he would be replaced by Anne de Joyeuse He playing a key role in the Day of the Barricades and Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1588). Upon the assassination of Henri III in 1589, he would transfer his loyalties to the Protestant Navarre and would campaign for him in Burgundy, Maine and Brittany against the Duke of Mercœur. He was also granted the office of governor of Dauphiné, upon it being vacated in 1592. It would be whilst fighting in Brittany in 1595, that he would be killed.