Edict of Nantes
French religious compromise
The Edict of Nantes was a 1598 decree by French King Henry IV granting Protestants (Huguenots) substantial rights in Catholic France, including freedom of worship and civil equality.
It ended decades of religious wars and became a landmark of religious tolerance.
Louis XIV revoked it in 1685, triggering mass Protestant emigration.
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- Henry IVFirst Lancastrian ruler
- royal decreeOfficial order from sovereign
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- Sun KingEpithet for absolute monarch
Louis XIV · Huguenots · amnesty · Reformation · religious wars · Fontainebleau · Peace of Augsburg · Treaty of Westphalia · persecution · Council of Trent · Catholic Church · crown · religious tolerance · freedom of worship · civil rights · Jesuits · Thirty Years' War · Lutheranism
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Luther
- 1500sElizabeth I, Shakespeare, Spanish Armada, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther
- Bourbon FranceVersailles, the Sun King, Louis XV, Colbert, absolute power
- european historical documentsMagna Carta, Domesday Book, Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Westphalia, Treaty of Rome
- Henri IVBourbon, Navarre, assassination, Huguenots, Sully
- colonial faithPilgrims, Puritans, Calvinism, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony
Edict of NantesSpanish Inquisition
Church court hunting heretics
religious persecution · forced conversion · religious intolerance · Counter-Reformation · Inquisition