Huguenot Migration to Britain

Vocabulary flashcards focusing on key historical figures, events, and terms related to the French Huguenot migration to Britain.

Huguenots

French Protestants who escaped severe religious persecution in France and emigrated to various destinations, including Britain.

St Bartholomew's Day Massacre

An August 1572 massacre where an estimated 3000 Protestants were murdered in Paris and up to 70,000 across France after Catholics believed Protestants were plotting rebellions.

English Reformation

The historical process during the 1530s in which England's King Henry VII turned the country from Catholic to Protestant.

Edward VI

Protestant monarch of England who allowed the first French church to be set up as a place of refuge for Huguenots.

Elizabeth I

Protestant Queen of England whose ministers invited skilled Huguenot craftspeople to work in England and teach British apprentices.

Edict of Nantes

A bill of rights issued in 1598 by French King Henri IV that granted Huguenots the freedom to practise their religion without fear.

King Louis XIV

Grandson of Henri IV who viewed Huguenots as a threat to his absolute power, withdrew their privileges, and revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

The tearing up of legal protections for Huguenots by Louis XIV, rendering them official heretics and causing up to 200,000 Huguenots to flee France, including up to 50,000 to England.

British Paper-making Industry

An industry started in Britain by Huguenots that grew by the 1710s to boast 200 paper mills, supplying nearly 70 per cent of Britain's paper market.

Hogarth

A famous English painter who used art to critique society and politics, including a 1738 painting depicting Huguenots attending a church in London.