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There were also some Calvinists in the Alsace region, which then belonged to the Holy Roman Empire. In the early 18th century, a regional group known as the Camisards (who were Huguenots of the mountainous Massif Central region) rioted against the Catholic Church, burning churches and killing the clergy. It took French troops years to hunt down ...
They often lived as nomads in wilderness areas in order to avoid capture. Historians estimate that the number of men and women imprisoned or sent to the galleys for religious offences in the 40 years following the edict of 1724 was almost two thousand. [10] According to Antoine Court, eight ministers were executed in this period. [11]
Areas controlled and contested by Huguenots are marked purple and blue on this map of modern France. The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots), mainly located in southwestern France, revolted against royal authority.
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1]
The city suffered terrible famine and the population was reduced to eating rats, leather, and ground slate. There were even isolated reports of cannibalism. [1] Some 500 people, including most of the children, died. [citation needed] The siege was compared to the siege of Jerusalem and became a Protestant cause throughout Europe.
The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events (occurring largely in the span of a week) that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France (often called Huguenots) against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse.
Jessé de Forest, leader of a group of Walloon-Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions. Jean de Labadie (1610–1674), Jesuit convert to Calvinism, founder of the pietistic Labadists. [537] Josué de la Place (c. 1596 – 1665 or possibly 1655), pastor and theologian. [538] [539] [540]
Huguenots (6 C, 285 P) Pages in category "French Calvinist and Reformed Christians" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.