AUBIGNE, CONSTANT D' (BARON DE SURINEAU) (C. 1584-1647), French adventurer, was the son of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne, and the father of Madame de Maintenon. Born a Protestant, he became in turn Catholic or Protestant as it suited his interests. He betrayed the Protestants in 1626, revealing to the court, after a voyage to England, the projects of the English upon La Rochelle. He was renounced by his father; then im prisoned by Richelieu's orders at Niort, where he was detained ten years. After having tried his fortunes in the Antilles, he died in Provence. He had two children, Charles, father of the duchess of Noailles, and Francoise, known in history as Madame de Maintenon.
See T. Lavallee, La Famille d'Aubigne et l'enfance de Madame de Maintenon (Paris, 1863).