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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 ().
Jean Guitton and the defenders vowing to defend La Rochelle to the death The surrender of La Rochelle, 17th century Entrance of Louis XIII in La Rochelle, by Pierre Courtilleau. Residents of La Rochelle had resisted for 14 months, under the leadership of the mayor Jean Guitton and with gradually diminishing help from England. During the siege ...
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).
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 ...
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 ]
Anna Barker, with her Yorkie Watson, at the entrance to the La Rochelle Old Port, between the Saint Nicolas Tower and the Chain Tower (1384), the site of the 1627-1628 siege commanded by Cardinal ...
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 ...
Travel through time to find the would-be assassin of the King of France In the present day, you're greeted by the ghost of Diane de Poitiers, mistress to the King of France in the 16th century.