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    The surprise of Meaux (La surprise de Meaux) was a failed coup attempt by leading aristocratic Huguenots which precipitated the second French War of Religion...
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    and the Count of Montgomery were in attendance among others. Eventually it was settled on to kidnap the king and the queen mother at Meaux, and assassinate...
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    war was ended by the Peace of Longjumeau of 22–23 March 1568, but civil unrest and bloodshed continued. The Surprise of Meaux marked a turning point in...
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    the vehement protests of Crussol and d'Acier. D'Acier was among the Protestant nobles who conspired to arrange the Surprise of Meaux with his role being...
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    assembling a large cavalry force at Meaux to kidnap the royal family and take charge of the religious direction of the kingdom from the Lorraine. The court...
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    over the assassination of the duke of Guise without notable results. Nemours was with the court during the Surprise of Meaux and successfully counselled...
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    Michelade (category French Wars of Religion)
    outbreak of the second French War of Religion after the failure of the Surprise of Meaux. The massacre represented one of the largest non-military massacres...
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    château is the "Surprise of Meaux" (1567) in which Huguenot troops planned to kidnap the queen and her son, King Charles IX, but she learned of the plot and...
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    unsuccessfully tried to capture and take control of King Charles IX in the Surprise of Meaux, a number of cities, such as La Rochelle, declared themselves...
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    Gaspard II de Coligny (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    days prior, their forces conjoining at Meaux on 27 March. He wrote to Catherine at this time, defending the arming of his men as being customary for a gentleman...
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    Ludwig Pfyffer (category People of the French Wars of Religion)
    from Meaux to Paris in 1567, during the surprise of Meaux, and further distinguished himself at the Battle of Moncontour in 1569. After returning to Switzerland...
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    Michel de l'Hôpital (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    more severe and threatening in the previous years. The Surprise of Meaux, in which elements of the Protestant nobility attempted a coup to seize the king...
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    Maison militaire du roi de France (category Military history of the Ancien Régime)
    1567, during the Surprise of Meaux, the royal family escaped capture by Prince de Condé's Protestant troops through the intervention of the Cent-Suisses...
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    François de Coligny d'Andelot are pointed out as one of the instigators of the famous Surprise of Meaux of 1567. She was born to Claude I de Rieux (1497–1532)...
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    once more, striking upon a plan to seize the king at Meaux. After the failure of the Surprise of Meaux, the Protestant army that had intended to capture...
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    work to bring him around to the evils of Coligny, highlighting the killing of François, the surprise of Meaux and various other outrages. She further...
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    Gardes du Corps du Roi (France) (category Guards regiments of France)
    (vers 1526–1574), Governor of Saint-Quentin, chevalier du Saint-Esprit, distinguished at Surprise of Meaux and Battle of Saint-Denis (1567) 1574 : Nicolas...
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    the Surprise of Meaux in 1567 and brought to a close with the Peace of Longjumeau in March 1568 would require provisions to ensure the removal of the...
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    before resigning it in favour of his son as he had his Anjou governorship. After the failure of the Surprise of Meaux in which Condé had sought to capture...
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    After the failure of the Protestants to capture the king in the Surprise of Meaux, Charles IX and the queen mother rushed to Paris. Keen not to waste...
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    his influence. With the return of his enemy Lorraine, and conscious his conciliatory response to the Surprise of Meaux had lost him Catherine's favour...
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    François III de La Rochefoucauld (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    fought as part of a vast cavalry force at the Surprise of Meaux on 28 September 1567. de La Rochefoucauld also fought at the Siege of Chartres and raised...
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    With civil war resumed in 1567 after the failure of the Protestant Surprise of Meaux, Aumale was again tasked with defending the frontier against attempts...
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    Honorat I de Savoie (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    as the Protestant nobility attempted to seize the king during the Surprise of Meaux, and across France their co-religionists seized towns. In Provence...
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    Michel de l'Hôpital, conscious that his conciliatory response to the Surprise of Meaux had lost him Catherine's confidence, withdrew from attending council...
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    Guy de Daillon (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    Protestant coups after the Surprise of Meaux. While the combat of the early civil wars had been centred around the upper Loire and north of France, the Protestant...
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    Bertrand-Rambaud de Simiane (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    before the Protestant nobility would attempt a coup during the Surprise of Meaux with the aim of seizing the king and killing Lorraine, Catherine was writing...
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  • 1567 in France (category Years of the 16th century in France)
    Rio de Janeiro, ending the occupation of France Antarctique. September 28 – Surprise of Meaux: Louis, Prince of Condé, and Gaspard de Coligny fail in...
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    Jean de Morvillier (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    however last, with leading members of the Protestant nobility attempting a coup against the crown in the Surprise of Meaux. Morvillier was absent for the...
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    François de Scépeaux (category French Wars of Religion)
    capture the king at Meaux and execute Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. Despite having failed to capture the king during the Surprise of Meaux Condé was ill-disposed...
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