St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

This Massacre spread to most parts of France and eventually ended up with the killings of thousands of people. The number of victims of the Massacre differs but the modern estimation stands at between five and thirty thousand people. Mack P Holt, a Professor of History at Emory University claims that the estimates of the numbers killed in the Massacre have "varied from two thousand by a Roman Catholic Apologist to seventy thousand by the contemporary Huguenot, duc de Sully who himself barely escaped death."[3] This is one of many facts which both contemporaries and historians disagree on, and one must consider these numbers with one side looking to give a low figure to make the Massacre seem less cruel as it was, with the other side trying to make the Massacre seem even more cruel than it was by increasing the numbers of victims to a great extent. Historians and contemporaries, from the sixteenth century to the present day, have debated many issues with regard to the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, including the role of the Royal Family, the role of religious tensions, cultural references and whether or not the Massacre itself was…

In 1572, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris sparked a six-week, nationwide slaughter of Huguenots. The massacre occurred when many Huguenot nobles were in Paris. They were attending the marriage of Catherine’s daughter to a Huguenot prince, Henry of Navarre. Most of these nobles died, but Henry survived. Henry of Navarre Descended from the popular medieval king Louis IX, Henry was robust, athletic, and handsome. In 1589, when both Catherine and her last son died, Prince Henry inherited…

sign the Peace St. Germain in August of 1570. This treaty soothed tensions by guaranteeing Huguenots the right to hold public office and betrothing Catherine’s daughter, Margaret of Valois, to the son of Jeanne…

Jews, Catholics, Cathars all lived together without any segregation at all. The city of Bezier was the first city to experience the massacres soon to dawn on almost all the Cathars of the time in the region. On July 22nd 1209, the Pope Innocent’s III army of thirty thousand men demanded no less then the surrender of approximately 200 heretics that lived within the city walls of the fortified town. Beziers Catholics denied selling out their Cathar citizens and an intense massacre followed. When…

order in Paris in the years preceding the St Bartholomew's day massacre played a critical role in the attempted extermination of Huguenots in the city. The three wars that had taken place in the decade before had put massive strain on the crowns coffers and as a result, to cope with this deficit, the King increased the taille in 1571. He also asked for 600 000 livre in March 1571 from the Parisians Parlement in order to pay of the mercenaries needed to fight the Huguenots, thus adding a great…

government. The government felt the religion of Catholics was already favored by the people was gradually being suppressed and persuaded to the conversion to Protestants. The marriage allegiance between Catholic Princess Marguerite and Protestant King Henry of Navarre was done to establish intention of peace between the two religions. However, it was when the unfortunate act of a Protestant attempting to assassinate a Catholic being that the massacre begins. The King out of fear of his…

The Protestant Reformation was during the 16th century. It was a religious, political, intellectual, and cultural upheaval that separated Catholic Europe (History.com, The Reformation). “This Reformation would be the belief that would define the continent in the modern era ” The movement aimed for being able to change the prctices and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1517, Martin Luther made an impact to this Reformation. He was a German Augustinian monk, who argued about the…

In 1533, at the age of fourteen, Catherine married Henry, second son of King Francis I and Queen Claude of France. Throughout his reign, Henry excluded Catherine from participating in state affairs and instead showered favours on his chief mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who wielded much influence over him. Henry's death thrust Catherine into the political arena as mother of the frail fifteen-year-old King Francis II. When he died in 1560, she became regent on behalf of her ten-year-old son King…

substantial protestants minority, There was lots of conflicts between the catholics and the protestants. The center of these conflicts was Catherine de medici the queen of France who was from medici family from italy and married into the french royal family. She controlled france with her three sons and the last of the volu dynasty. Catherine was considered the most powerful woman of france. She was behind the most noteworthy event of the French Wars of Religion called the st. Bartholomew's Day…

considerable power in Germany. This shift away from the Catholic Church was met with unimaginable violence as revolts, wars, and killings sprang up. Even Martin Luther could not escape the violence as he encouraged the squashing of several revolts, leading to the death of thousands of peasants. Revolts were common now in Europe, such as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day in France. Dissenters of the Reformation were, according to a young man named De Thou who witnessed the event,…