Huguenots
Persecuted French Calvinists
Huguenots were French Protestants, particularly followers of John Calvin's Reformed theology, who faced severe persecution in Catholic France during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The term is primarily historical, referring to the period from the French Wars of Religion through the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which prompted mass emigration to Protestant countries including England, the Netherlands, and colonial America.
Many Americans of French descent trace their ancestry to Huguenot refugees.
French Protestant tolerance proclamation
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
Catherine de Medici · galleys · forced conversion · abjuration · repression
Divinely predetermined fate
- GenevaSwiss seat of diplomacy
- John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
elect · iconoclasm · synod · Puritanism · Presbyterianism · theocracy · ordination · catechism
People seeking safety elsewhere
- exileBanishment from homeland
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- WalloonsBelgian French-speaking population
- BrandenburgNortheastern German federal state
Prussia · Netherlands · England · South Africa · emigration · dispersion · settlers · Berlin
Edict of Nantes
French Protestant tolerance proclamation
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
heresy · Catherine de Medici · galleys · forced conversion · abjuration · repression
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- GenevaSwiss seat of diplomacy
- John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
doctrine · elect · iconoclasm · synod · Puritanism · Presbyterianism · theocracy · ordination · catechism · consistory
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- exileBanishment from homeland
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- WalloonsBelgian French-speaking population
Brandenburg · Prussia · Netherlands · England · South Africa · emigration · dispersion · settlers · Berlin · London
Nantes
Breton capital on Loire
Louis XIV · Richelieu · temples · assemblies · nobility · bourgeoisie · Bourbon · Rohan
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
- ChristiansCatholics, Catholic, Protestants, Protestant, Baptist
- colonial historycolonization, colonies, pilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, sixteenth century
- ProtestantismLutheran, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian
- 1500sElizabeth I, Shakespeare, Spanish Armada, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther
HuguenotsLouis XIV
HuguenotsCatherine de' Medici