French huguenots

the french huguenots migrated to america because 1 huguenots in brittany 2 huguenots in somerset 3 huguenots significance 4 The Huguenots (/ ˈhjuːɡənɒts / HEW-gə-nots, also UK: /- noʊz / -⁠nohz, French: [yɡ (ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. 5 Huguenot, any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. 6 The Huguenots were French Protestants. The tide of the Reformation reached France early in the sixteenth century and was part of the religious and political fomentation of the times. The Huguenots in France Marguerite d’Angoulême (–). 7 Huguenots, French Protestants of the 16th–17th century, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The first French Huguenot community was founded in , and the confession of faith drawn up by the first synod in was influenced by the ideas of John Calvin. Their numbers increased rapidly and they became a political. 8 Huguenots are members of a French Protestant denomination with origins in the 16th or 17th centuries. 9 French Huguenots in English-Speaking Lands. 10 The French Wars of Religion refers to the period of civil war between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from to Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1]. 12