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Bookmark or Share- Huguenots - Definition & French Huguenots | HISTORYOften, the Huguenot settlers would assimilate with existing Protestant groups. The father of Paul Revere , Apollo Rivoire, was a Huguenot, and George Washington was descended from a Huguenot named ...
- Who Were the Huguenots? - The National Huguenot Society“Huguenot”, according to Frank Puaux, at one time President of the Socitie Francaise de l’Historie du Protestantisme Francais and author of the article about the Huguenots in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica: “is the name given from about the middle of the sixteenth century to the Protestants of France. ...
- Huguenot History – The Huguenot Society of AmericaThe names of Huguenot leaders at that time included the royal houses of Navarre, Valois, and Condé; Admiral Coligny, and hundreds of other officers in the military. Marguerite d’Angoulême, whom scholars have called “the first modern woman,” was an early supporter of reform in the Catholic Church. Marguerite (grandmother of Henry IV ...
- Huguenots summary | BritannicaHuguenots , French Protestants of the 16th–17th century, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith.The first French Huguenot community was founded in 1546, and the confession of faith drawn up by the first synod in 1559 was influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.Their numbers increased rapidly and they became a political force, led by Gaspard II de Coligny.
- Huguenot | French Protestantism, Persecution & MigrationHuguenot, any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it appears to have come from the word aignos, derived from the German Eidgenossen (confederates bound together by oath), which used to describe, between 1520 and 1524, the patriots of Geneva hostile to the duke of Savoy.
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