26 Facts About French Huguenots

French Huguenots were concentrated in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France.

The French Huguenots were led by Jeanne d'Albret; her son, the future Henry IV ; and the princes of Conde.

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

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

French Huguenots 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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French Huguenots lived on the Atlantic coast in La Rochelle, and spread across provinces of Normandy and Poitou.

Fanatically opposed to the Catholic Church, the French Huguenots killed priests, monks, and nuns, attacked monasticism, and destroyed sacred images, relics, and church buildings.

The French Huguenots responded by establishing independent political and military structures, establishing diplomatic contacts with foreign powers, and openly revolting against central power.

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

Those French Huguenots who stayed in France were subsequently forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism and were called "new converts".

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

Individual French Huguenots settled at the Cape of Good Hope from as early as 1671; the first documented was the wagonmaker Francois Vilion .

The largest portion of the French Huguenots to settle in the Cape arrived between 1688 and 1689 in seven ships as part of the organised migration, but quite a few arrived as late as 1700; thereafter, the numbers declined and only small groups arrived at a time.

French Huguenots made two attempts to establish a haven in North America.

In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the King William III of England had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County.

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

Some French Huguenots fought in the Low Countries alongside the Dutch against Spain during the first years of the Dutch Revolt .

Consequently, many French Huguenots considered the wealthy and Calvinist-controlled Dutch Republic, which happened to lead the opposition to Louis XIV, as the most attractive country for exile after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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

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

Some French Huguenots settled in Bedfordshire, one of the main centres of the British lace industry at the time.

Winston Churchill was the most prominent Briton of Huguenot descent, deriving from the French Huguenots who went to the colonies; his American grandfather was Leonard Jerome.

Over 150 years, French Huguenots were allowed to hold their services in Lady Chapel in St Patrick's Cathedral.

In Berlin the French Huguenots created two new neighbourhoods: Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt.

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, invited French Huguenots to settle in his realms, and a number of their descendants rose to positions of prominence in Prussia.

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Persecution and the flight of the French Huguenots greatly damaged the reputation of Louis XIV abroad, particularly in England.