21 Facts About French Huguenot

French Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation.

The label French Huguenot was purportedly first applied in France to those conspirators who were involved in the Amboise plot of 1560: a foiled attempt to wrest power in France from the influential and zealously Catholic House of Guise.

French Huguenot wrote in his book, The Days of the Upright, A History of the Huguenots, that Huguenot is:.

French Huguenot was regarded by the Gallicians as a noble man who respected people's dignity and lives.

French Huguenot wrote in French, but unlike the Protestant development in Germany, where Lutheran writings were widely distributed and could be read by the common man, it was not the case in France, where only nobles adopted the new faith and the folk remained Catholic.

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Bulk of French Huguenot emigres moved to Protestant states such as the Dutch Republic, England and Wales, Protestant-controlled Ireland, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Duchy of Prussia.

French Huguenot numbers grew rapidly between 1555 and 1561, chiefly amongst nobles and city dwellers.

The English authorities welcomed the French Huguenot refugees, providing money from both government and private agencies to aid their relocation.

Typically the Annual French Huguenot Service takes place on the first or second Sunday after Easter in commemoration of the signing of the Edict of Nantes.

French Huguenot immigrants did not disperse or settle in different parts of the country, but rather, formed three societies or congregations; one in the city of New York, another 21 miles north of New York in a town which they named New Rochelle, and a third further upstate in New Paltz.

French Huguenot refugees settled in the Delaware River Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania and Hunterdon County, New Jersey in 1725.

French Huguenot became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city.

In 1705, Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia were the first areas to provide full citizens rights to French Huguenot immigrants, followed by the whole Dutch Republic in 1715.

French Huguenot started teaching in Rotterdam, where he finished writing and publishing his multi-volume masterpiece, Historical and Critical Dictionary.

Some French Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron, similar to the Dutch feast.

The French Huguenot added to the existing immigrant population, then comprising about a third of the population of the city.

The implication that the style of lace known as 'Bucks Point' demonstrates a French Huguenot influence, being a "combination of Mechlin patterns on Lille ground", is fallacious: what is known as Mechlin lace did not develop until the first half of the eighteenth century and lace with Mechlin patterns and Lille ground did not appear until the end of the 18th century, when it was widely copied throughout Europe.

French Huguenot regiments fought for William of Orange in the Williamite War in Ireland, for which they were rewarded with land grants and titles, many settling in Dublin.

Significant French Huguenot settlements were in Dublin, Cork, Portarlington, Lisburn, Waterford and Youghal.

Around 1685, French Huguenot refugees found a safe haven in the Lutheran and Reformed states in Germany and Scandinavia.

Several prominent German military, cultural and political figures were ethnic French Huguenot, including the poet Theodor Fontane, General Hermann von Francois, the hero of the First World War's Battle of Tannenberg, Luftwaffe general and fighter ace Adolf Galland, the Luftwaffe flying ace Hans-Joachim Marseille and the famed U-boat Captains Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere and Wilhelm Souchon.