Edict of Amboise
The Edict of Amboise ( French: L'édit d'Amboise ) assured the Huguenots of France that they would be free to practice their religion in certain places. The edict signed on March 19, 1563 at Amboise Castle sealed a settlement that Catherine de Medici and the Reformed had made. This religious freedom was expanded in the Peace of Saint Germain in 1570 , although the Huguenots were defeated in the first three (1562/63, 1567/68 and 1568–70) of the eight denominational civil wars . You were u. a. Four security places awarded for two years.
The eighth Huguenot War began in 1585 after King Henry III. in the Edict of Nemours had revoked all rights granted to the Huguenots. After his murder, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre ascended the French throne in 1589 . To preserve the national unity and integrity of France, he converted to Catholicism in 1593 . In the Edict of Nantes of April 13, 1598 , however, he granted his former co-religionists the freedom to practice their religion and a special political position. Although this ended the Huguenot Wars, after the death of Henry IV in 1610 there was renewed persecution of Huguenots, which would not end until the French Revolution .
literature
- Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon . Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1973, Volume 12, p. 318.
- August Lebrecht Herrmann: France's religious and civil wars in the 16th century. Voss, 1828
- Robert J. Knecht: Renaissance France 1483-1610. Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-6312-2729-6
- Robert J. Knecht: The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598. Seminar Studies in History, Longman, 2010, ISBN 1-4082-2819-X
Web links
- Annotated full text of the Édit d'Amboise , in the edition L'édit de Nantes et ses antécédents (1562-1598) , École nationale des chartes , Paris (visited March 1, 2012).