The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and...

The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Fought after the Protestant Reformation...

Religion in France is diverse, with the largest religion group being Christianity. A very significant part of the population is not religious, and significant...

part of the Italian War of 1551–1559 English expedition to France (1562–1563) - English intervention in the first of the French Wars of Religion. Anglo-French...

War of Religion may refer to: European wars of religion, a series of European wars of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries French Wars of Religion...

history of the royal house of Bourbon vol. 1, ed. Didot, 1825, p. 30 "Jeanne de Chatillon". Holt, Mack P. (1995). The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629...

The First French War of Religion (2 April 1562 – 19 March 1563) was the opening civil war of the French Wars of Religion. The war began when in response...

French Wars of Religion. The House of Guise was the founding house of the Principality of Joinville. The House of Guise was founded as a cadet branch of the...

conflict that led to the French Wars of Religion in 1562. The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis on 3 April 1559 brought the Italian wars to an end. Corsica was...

simultaneously wars of succession as well as wars of religion when two rival claimants to a throne also represent opposing religions. Examples include the War of the...

(1465) Mad War (1485–1488) French Wars of Religion (1562–1598) The Fronde (1648–1653) French Revolutionary Wars Chouannerie (1792–1800) War in the Vendée...

Mack P., The French Wars of Religion, 1562–2011, (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 148 Ranke, Leopold. Civil Wars and Monarchy in France, p. 467 Holt...

parts of the Anglo-French Wars (1066–1815), the War of the Burgundian Succession (1477–1482), the Italian Wars (1494–1559), the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)...

Across France Protestants responded to Condé's manifesto and the beginning of the first French War of Religion by seizing cities and taking control of territories...

stirrings of the French Wars of Religion. Although the royal age of majority was 14, his mother, Catherine de' Medici, entrusted the reins of government...

the French Wars of Religion. The League, founded and led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, intended the eradication of Protestantism from Catholic France, as...

of Religion (1562–1598). The Wars of Religion crippled France, but triumph over Spain and the Habsburg monarchy in the Thirty Years' War made France the...

prominent leader during the Italian War of 1551–1559 and French Wars of Religion, he was assassinated during the siege of Orleans in 1563. Born in Bar-le-Duc...

the series of civil wars in France known as the French Wars of Religion. It was a three-way war fought between: King Henry III of France, supported by...

wars of the French Wars of Religion before being executed after his defeat at the Battle of Jarnac in 1569. Born in Vendôme, he was the fifth son of Charles...

Europe. In France there were the French Wars of Religion and in the United Kingdom anti-Catholic hate was heightened by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. And...

brought France spiralling towards civil war. The massacre lit the fuse that sparked the French Wars of Religion. Louis of Bourbon, Prince of Condé, brother...

inheriting the French throne when his brother, Charles IX, died without issue. France was at the time plagued by the Wars of Religion, and Henry's authority...

Henry pursued his father's policies in matters of art, war, and religion. He persevered in the Italian Wars against the Habsburgs and tried to suppress the...

virtually destroy the French Protestant minority, which had survived more than 150 years of wars and persecution under previous French kings. Persecution...

Italian Wars distinguishing himself under Marshal Brissac. He fought against the crown for the Huguenot rebels during the first French Wars of Religion. Conducting...

with the House of Habsburg and the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots. France was successful in the Thirty Years' War and further increased...

The Massacre of Vassy sparked the first of a series of French Wars of Religion. 1674: Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj became 1st Chatrapati of Maratha Kingdom...

hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The Huguenots were led...

the first of the French Wars of Religion. He died of wounds sustained during the Siege of Rouen. He was the father of King Henry IV, France's first Bourbon...