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...
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French Empire. Religion in France is diverse, which could be attributed to the country's adherence to secularism, freedom of religion and freedom of thought...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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Three Henrys and the Succession of Henry IV of France during the French Wars of Religion, the Hessian War and the War of the Jülich Succession during the...
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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...
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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...
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inherited the throne of Navarre in 1572 on his mother's death. As a Huguenot (Protestant), Henry was involved in the French Wars of Religion, barely escaping...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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virtually destroy the French Protestant minority, which had survived more than 150 years of wars and persecution under previous French kings. Persecution...
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February 1563), was a French general and statesman. A prominent leader during the Italian War of 1551–1559 and French Wars of Religion, he was assassinated...
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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...
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The Massacre of Vassy sparked the first of a series of French Wars of Religion. 1674: Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj became 1st Chatrapati of Maratha Empire...
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defense of its American monopoly, and the further distractions caused in France itself in the later 16th century by the French Wars of Religion, prevented...
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centre of politics, becoming Lieutenant-General of France and leading the army of the crown in the first of the French Wars of Religion. He died of wounds...
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François de Beaumont (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
Italian Wars distinguishing himself under Marshal Brissac. He fought against the crown for the Huguenot rebels during the first French Wars of Religion. Conducting...
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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...
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Huguenots (redirect from French Huguenot)
faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598...
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which seven French popes, resided in Avignon. Prior to the French Revolution, the Catholic Church had been the official state religion of France since the...
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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...
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