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Author: Nelda Hirsh Publisher: Green Rock Books ISBN: 9780982965023 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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HENRI IV (1553-1610) was a favorite among French kings -- for good reason. Born a Protestant in southwestern France, he was centuries ahead of his time in his ideas about religious tolerance. Like his friend the philosopher Michel de Montaigne, he fought for Protestants and Catholics to live peacefully together and succeeded in ending decades-long civil wars. However, his lust and driving sexuality often threatened to upset his high ideals. The Royal Huguenot takes pace during the struggle for power among the Bourbon, Guise, and Valois families in 16th century France and tells the often lurid and surprising story of the five most prominent women in his life: Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), oftentimes called "Queen Margot," was Henri IV's first wife and a Catholic. She was intelligent, manipulative, and could be either a trial or a temptress for Henry. Their arranged marriage was meant to end the wars between the Catholics and the Huguenots, French Protestants. Corisande d'Andoins (1554-1620) was Henry's true love, but she was too proud and wise to become only his mistress or follow him from battlefield to battlefield. Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573-1599), besotted Henry for many years, and bore him four illegitimate children before an early death would snatch the throne from her. Henriette d'Entragues (1579-1633), wily and beautiful, crazed Henry with her intrigues to trap him into making her his queen. Marie de Medici (1573-1642), an Italian princess, finally became Henry's queen and bore him six children, including Louis XIII, so securing a long line of French Bourbon kings.
Author: Nelda Hirsh Publisher: Green Rock Books ISBN: 9780982965023 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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HENRI IV (1553-1610) was a favorite among French kings -- for good reason. Born a Protestant in southwestern France, he was centuries ahead of his time in his ideas about religious tolerance. Like his friend the philosopher Michel de Montaigne, he fought for Protestants and Catholics to live peacefully together and succeeded in ending decades-long civil wars. However, his lust and driving sexuality often threatened to upset his high ideals. The Royal Huguenot takes pace during the struggle for power among the Bourbon, Guise, and Valois families in 16th century France and tells the often lurid and surprising story of the five most prominent women in his life: Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), oftentimes called "Queen Margot," was Henri IV's first wife and a Catholic. She was intelligent, manipulative, and could be either a trial or a temptress for Henry. Their arranged marriage was meant to end the wars between the Catholics and the Huguenots, French Protestants. Corisande d'Andoins (1554-1620) was Henry's true love, but she was too proud and wise to become only his mistress or follow him from battlefield to battlefield. Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573-1599), besotted Henry for many years, and bore him four illegitimate children before an early death would snatch the throne from her. Henriette d'Entragues (1579-1633), wily and beautiful, crazed Henry with her intrigues to trap him into making her his queen. Marie de Medici (1573-1642), an Italian princess, finally became Henry's queen and bore him six children, including Louis XIII, so securing a long line of French Bourbon kings.
Author: David E. Lambert Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433107597 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 238
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In 1700, King William III assigned Charles de Sailly to accompany Huguenot refugees to Manakin Town on the Virginia frontier. The existing explanation for why this migration was necessary is overly simplistic and seriously conflated. Based largely on English-language sources with an English Atlantic focus, it contends that King William III, grateful to the French Protestant refugees who helped him invade England during the Glorious Revolution (1688) and win victory in Ireland (1691), rewarded these refugees by granting them 10,000 acres in Virginia on which to settle. Using French-language sources and a wider, more European focus than existing interpretations, this book offers an alternative explanation. It delineates a Huguenot refugee resettlement network within a «Protestant International», highlighting the patronage of both King William himself and his valued Huguenot associate, Henri de Ruvigny (Lord Galway). By 1700, King William was politically battered by the interwoven pressures of an English reaction against his high-profile foreign favorites (Galway among them) and the Irish land grants he had awarded to close colleagues (to Galway and others). This book asserts that King William and Lord Galway sponsored the Manakin Town migration to provide an alternate location for Huguenot military refugees in the worst-case scenario that they might lose their Irish refuge.
Author: Raymond A. Mentzer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521773249 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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The Huguenots formed a privileged minority within early modern France. During the second half of the sixteenth century, they fought for freedom of worship in the French 'wars of religion' which culminated in the Edict of Nantes in 1598. The community was protected by the terms of the Edict for eighty-seven years until Louis XIV revoked it in 1685. The Huguenots therefore constitute a minority group tolerated by one of the strongest nations in early modern Europe, a country more often associated with the absolute power of the crown - in particular that of Louis XIV. This collection of essays explores the character and identity of the Huguenot movement by examining their culture and institutions, their patterns of belief and worship and their interaction with French state and society. The volume draws upon research by leading historians and specialists from across Europe and North America.
Author: American Sunday-School Union Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781378622261 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 306
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Author: Geoffrey Treasure Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300196199 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 516
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From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora. Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all Huguenot rights, and more than 200,000 of the radical Calvinists were forced to flee across Europe, some even farther. In this capstone work, Geoffrey Treasure tells the full story of the Huguenots’ rise, survival, and fall in France over the course of a century and a half. He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a “state within a state,” weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen, feudal magnates, leaders of the Catholic revival, Henry of Navarre, Catherine de’ Medici, Louis XIV, and many others. Treasure describes the Huguenots’ disciplined community, their faith and courage, their rich achievements, and their unique place within Protestantism and European history. The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history, Treasure contends, and he addresses the significance of the Huguenot story—the story of a minority group with the power to resist and endure in one of early modern Europe’s strongest nations. “A formidable work, covering complex, fascinating, horrifying and often paradoxical events over a period of more than 200 years…Treasure’s work is a monument to the courage and heroism of the Huguenots.”—Piers Paul Read, The Tablet
Author: David J.B. Trim Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004209697 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 343
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The essays in this book examine the role of history and memory in shaping the transnational Huguenot diaspora. They explore the impact of Huguenot émigrés on the societies in which they settled and in particular the way that Huguenot history, and collective memory of that history, shaped the relationships between the Huguenots and their host communities. The essays show how a ‘Huguenot’ identity was preserved, re-shaped, and manipulated, both by the descendants of the original Huguenots and among the broader communities in which they settled. The essays also show how the collective memory of the Huguenot past that had emerged among European and American Protestants played a critical role in the transformation of Huguenot identity over four centuries. Contributors include H. H. Leonard, Gregory Dodds, Lisa Diller, Robin Gwynn, D. J. B. Trim, David Onnekink, Andrew C. Thompson, Vivienne Larminie, Randolph Vigne, Paul McGraw
Author: Nelda Hirsh
Author: Nelda Hirsh
Author: David E. Lambert
Author: Raymond A. Mentzer
Author: American Sunday-School Union
Author: Edward Meryon
Author: Geoffrey Treasure
Author: Huguenot Society of London
Author: Henry Martyn Baird
Author: David J.B. Trim
Author: J. W. S. Lowry