The Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, was a failed attempt by a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young King Francis...

The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in...

also at the coronation. Later he supported the repression of the Amboise conspiracy of 1560, notably by going to the Parlement to communicate to its members...

Amboise (US: /ɒ̃ˈbwɑːz/; French: [ɑ̃bwaz] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home...

ISBN 978-0801022494. Sutherland, N. M. (1962). "Calvinism and the conspiracy of Amboise". History. 47 (160): 111–138. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.1962.tb01083...

brother of the Lieutenant-General and the suspected architect of the Amboise conspiracy, had already prepared for war and, taking Wassy as the pretext, assumed...

formulated a conspiracy to assume control of the king and end the Lorraine administration. This manifested in an attempted conspiracy at Amboise in March...

of influence over royal policy. In opposition to this control, the Amboise conspiracy developed, with the aim of arresting both the Duke and his brother...

Elisabeth of Valois to the Spanish border. In 1560, the organisers of the Amboise conspiracy tried to recruit him as a figurehead for their efforts against the...

France, François II, in May 1560. The decree came in the wake of the Amboise conspiracy in which many Protestant Huguenots had participated. Conscious that...

against the Protestants, and participated in the repression of the Amboise conspiracy. In 1561, Pierre Richier published a pamphlet against Villegagnon's...

returned to the Catholic fold. The edict was published during the Amboise conspiracy whilst the royal court was resident in the Château d'Amboise and their...

Condé's support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in the conspiracy of Amboise and its aftermath, pushed him to the centre of French politics....

Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the...

Châtellerault in November 1559, and were threatened by the Amboise conspiracy in March 1560. At Amboise, on 1 April 1560, Mary and Francis signed a commission...

Nay 1553: Riots in Le Puy 1554: Peasant revolt in Normandy 1560: Amboise Conspiracy, a failed attempt by Protestant nobles and ministers to seize the...

Renaudie (died 1560), pseudonym for aristocrat, conspirator, martyr (Amboise Conspiracy). Etienne Mangin (d.1546) Huguenot martyr. Started the first Calvin-inspired...

was not supportive of Calvinism). In March 1560, the "Amboise conspiracy", or "Tumult of Amboise", was an attempt on the part of a group of disaffected...

affair taking place against the background of the preparations for the Amboise conspiracy. The protagonists who become entangled in racy situations in "Le Péché...

father was Jean d'Aubigné, who was involved in the 1560 Huguenot Amboise conspiracy to seize power by staging a palace coup, kidnapping King Francis II...

Francis II, arch-Catholic chief and ally to Queen Catherine de' Medici. Amboise conspiracy foiled. Increased persecutions of Huguenots. Formation of the Catholic...

French Reformed Church members. This opposition had even led to the Amboise conspiracy which attempted to unseat the Guise with the House of Bourbon, but...

destroyed, herds killed and unknown number of peasants starved to death Amboise conspiracy 19 March 1560 Château d'Amboise 1,200–1,500 Royal Army 1,200–1,500...

Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie [fr] (died 1560), organizer of the Amboise conspiracy Jean-Baptiste du Barry (1723–1794), lover of Madame du Barry This...

iconoclastic riots in 1560, at the time of the suppression of the Amboise conspiracy, before the riots spread to many other cities. Further cases of Reformation...

of the Amboise conspiracy, including Godefroy de Barry, seigneur de La Renaudie, make an unsuccessful attempt to storm the château of Amboise, where the...

strongest anti-Guise figure. The Vidame was put in the Bastille after the Amboise conspiracy of 1560, in which he seems to have not been involved, and died days...

Lorraine. While the conspiracy was more successfully hidden by its members than the prior Huguenot plot of the Amboise conspiracy, it was not able to...

de' Medici. In 1560 he was one of the principal instigators of the Amboise conspiracy; in September of that year he was with Antoine of Navarre at Nérac...

Huguenot place of the city and took refuge in it after the defeat of the Amboise conspiracy in 1568. But Catherine de Médicis dislodged him and the garrison surrendered...