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| a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant. | ||
| A ruler who suppresses his or her religious designs for his or her kingdom in favor of political expediency. Examples: Elizabeth I (England), Henry IV (France). | ||
| 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | ||
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| Ended the thirty years war, it was written in French and stated that the ruler of a land would determine the lands official religion of that land. It also gave Calvanists legal recognition. | ||
| Six week nation wide slaughter of Huguenots. Occurred when Huguenot nobles were in Paris attending the marriage of Catherine's dughter to a Huguenot prince, Henry of Navarre. | ||
| Henry of Navarre declared this when converting to catholicism | ||
| King of England and Scotland and Ireland, he married the daughter of James II and was invited by opponents of James II to invade England; when James fled, William III and Mary II were declared joint monarchs (1650-1702) | ||
| Occurred during the Bohemian Period. When Ferdinand becomes King of Bohemia, his wish is to restore traditional faith to Bohemia (Catholicism) so he revokes the religious rights of Protestants. The rights had just been given by Emperor Rudolph II with the Letters of Majesty. The Protestant nobility of Prague responded by throwing Ferdinand's regents out the window. They survived by landing in manure | ||
| the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 |
