- HUGUENOTS. "Huguenot" was the pejorative name given to Calvinist French Protestants by their Catholic opponents in the sixteenth century.
- 16th-century religious geopolitics on a map of modern France. Controlled by Huguenot nobility. Contested between Huguenots and Catholics.
- Huguenots, and particularly French Huguenots, were persecuted Protestants in 16th and 17th century Europe who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin.
- In particular, the case of the Huguenots is highly telling of how variable starting points can be. When around 150,000–200,000 Huguenots (1% of the French...
- 15 Fascinating Facts About the Huguenots: France’s Protestant Minority. Since the sixteenth century, France has had an influential Protestant population.
- There were periods of peace when Huguenots flourished in France but many periods of civil war, persecution and unrest.
- Who were the Huguenots and what did they believe? Fleeing religious persecution of Protestants in France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
- In the 1680s King Louis XIV determined to force the Huguenots to convert to Catholicism and in 1685 revoked the Edict of Nantes.
- <<< The Huguenot Cross has existed in various forms since the late Seventeenth Century as the emblem of French Protestant refugees.
- The Huguenots also assimilated by marrying into English families. It is estimated that a quarter of London's population has some Huguenot blood.