Huguenots | search
Click here to view Huguenots news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Who Were the Huguenots? - The National Huguenot SocietyThe Huguenots were French Protestants most of whom eventually came to follow the teachings of John Calvin, and who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some remained, practicing their Faith in secret.
- Huguenot History – The Huguenot Society of AmericaHuguenot History. 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.
- 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 .
- Huguenot | French Protestantism, Persecution & MigrationProtestantism. Huguenot, 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 ...
- Who Were the Huguenots? What Is Their History? - ThoughtCoUpdated on January 12, 2018. The Huguenots were French Calvinists, active mostly in the sixteenth century. They were persecuted by Catholic France, and about 300,000 Huguenots fled France for England, Holland, Switzerland, Prussia, and the Dutch and English colonies in the Americas.
More
