AP European History French Wars on Religion

Huguenots

French Calvinists, made up 10% of the French Population

Concordat of Bologna (1516)

Signed between France and the Catholic Church, it allowed the Church to collect all income that it made in France

1559

King Henry II dies (aged 40)

1560

King Francis II dies (aged 16)

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Wedding day of Henry of Navarre and Margarette of Valois, Huguenot and Catholic respectively, in which Catherine de Medici ordered the murder of thousands of Huguenots

Henry III

+ King of France, Catholic Royalist
+ Supports his mother
+ assassinated in 1588

Henry of Navarre

+ Heir to the throne
+ Huguenot that opposes Catherine de Medici

Henry of Guise

+ wants to be heir to the throne
+ Catholic royalist
+ supported by Catholic Spain
+ assassinated 1589

Catherine de Medici

mother of Henry II and Francis II. Took over as regent for Henry II.

outcomes of the wars

+ Henry of Navarre crowned Henry IV, converts to Catholicism, enacts edict of Nantes
+ Henry IV becomes a politique, putting stability of the state over all matters, including religious authority

Edict of Nantes

Edict stating that Catholicism is the official religion of France, but Calvinism can be practiced as well.