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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.
Henri d'Angoulême took a major role in the two extended military battle against Huguenot strongholds during the height of the French Wars of Religion, engaging in the massive Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573), organized by the Duke of Anjou, future Henry III of France, and leading the five-year Siege of Ménerbes (1573–1578), fought at a ...
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).
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]
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]
On June 6, 1573 Charles IX signed the Peace of La Rochelle ending the Fourth Civil War and guaranteeing French Protestants religious freedom. [citation needed] On August 25, 1573, one day after the anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the last of the siege of Sancerre survivors left the fortress. Châtre entered the empty city ...
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. ...