Battle of Moncontour

Battle of Moncontour, copper engraving around 1570

The Battle of Moncontour took place on October 3, 1569 in the third Huguenot War (1568–1570) between the Catholic troops of King Charles IX. held by France and the Huguenots .

The battle

Admiral and leader of the Huguenots Gaspard II. De Coligny had to break off the siege of Poitiers because the Catholic army under Heinrich von Anjou and the Marshal von Tavannes was advancing. The warring troops met in the northwest of Poitiers near Moncontour.

For the outcome of the battle it was crucial that the mercenary troops of the Huguenots fell away from Coligny and thus significantly weakened his army. According to contemporary sources, the Huguenots lost between 6,000 and 10,000 dead and prisoners, while the Catholics lost a total of only around 600 men.

Coligny was able to move south and regroup his army. He then marched towards Paris.

literature

• The Cambridge Modern History . CUP archive,.

Single receipts

1. ↑ George Alfred Henty : St. Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars . Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4179-6180-5 . .
2. ^ Robert Jean Knecht: The French religious wars 1562-1598 . Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-395-0 . .

Web links

• The Battle of Moncontour
• Voyage of the Battle of Moncontour, 1569
• Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1570: The papists killed three thousand Teutsche lantzknecht at Moncontour in der Schlaht ... ( digitized version )