Second Huguenot War
The Second Huguenot War ( 1567 - 1568 ) was the only Huguenot War that the French Protestants ( Huguenots ) waged offensively, again under the leadership of the Prince of Condé, Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé .
This time the Huguenots used Swiss mercenaries, which tended to strengthen the Catholics politically. The war started with a surprise coup against the royal family: The prince of Condé from the branch line of the Bourbon wanted to wrest the reign from Catherine de Medici . When that failed, the Edict of Amboise of 1563 was roughly confirmed. Since both parties had their troops mobilized, the war turned almost immediately into the Third Huguenot War .
literature
- 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