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La Rochelle at the time of the 1572–1573 siege. Since 1568, La Rochelle had been the main base of the Huguenots in France. A city of 20,000 inhabitants and a port of strategic importance with historic links to England, La Rochelle benefited from administrative autonomy (lack of seigneur, bishop, or parlement) and had become overwhelmingly Huguenot ().
The siege of La Rochelle (French: le siège de La Rochelle, or sometimes le grand siège de La Rochelle) was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–1628.
It was officially registered by the Parlement of Paris on 11 August 1573. [2] The treaty officially ended the fourth phase of the French Wars of Religion (set off by the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in August 1572; this phase of the wars included the siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573) and the Siege of Sancerre).
June 1569: Battle of La Roche-l'Abeille; October 1569: Battle of Moncontour; 1572: St. Bartholomew's Day massacre [8] June 1572: Death of Jeanne d'Albret; 1572–1573: usually known as the "Fourth War", [8] [9] [2] ended by the Edict of Boulogne. November 1572 – July 1573: Siege of La Rochelle; May 1573: Henry d'Anjou elected King of Poland
The Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573) began soon after the St. Bartholomew massacre. In several cases the Catholic party in the city believed they had received orders from the king to begin the massacre, some conveyed by visitors to the city, and in other cases apparently coming from a local nobleman or his agent. [32]
Anna Barker's latest column takes readers from La Rochelle to New Rochelle. ... (1384), the site of the 1627-1628 siege commanded by Cardinal Richelieu. ...
He was killed at the siege of La Rochelle on 3 March 1573 during one of the many assaults on the bastion de l'Évangile. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] [ 100 ] The king was conscious that his death at the hands of the Protestants had a serious chance of inflaming religious tensions in the capital again, though order was maintained. [ 101 ]
1571 – Seventh national synod of the French reformed churches and affirmation of faith with the Confession de La Rochelle. [1] 1573 Siege of La Rochelle (1572–73) during the French Wars of Religion. [4] 24 June: Peace of La Rochelle treaty signed. [1] 1621 – Blockade of La Rochelle begins during Huguenot rebellion. 1627 – Siege of La ...