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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).
Jean de Nogaret de La Valette (1527– December 18, 1575) was a captain and then maître de camp (camp master) of the French light cavalry (1562) and Lieutenant General of Guyenne (1574). [1] He fought in the battles of Dreux (1562), Moncontour and Jarnac (1569) [ 2 ] and the siege of La Rochelle (1573).
Battle of La Rochelle (1372) between the Castilians and the English in a naval battle off La Rochelle; Battle of La Rochelle (1419) between the Castilians and a joint Flemish-Hanseatic fleet off La Rochelle; Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573) between the Huguenots and the Catholics during the Wars of Religion; Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628 ...
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 ...
Siege of La Charité; Siege of La Rochelle; Siege of La Rochelle (1224) Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573) Allied siege of La Rochelle; Siege of Laghouat; Siege of Landau (1702) Siege of Landau (1704) Siege of Landau (1793) Siege of Landrecies (1543) Siege of Landrecies (1794) Siege of Le Catelet (1595) Siege of Le Quesnoy (1793) Siege of Leith ...
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.