30 Facts About Huguenots

Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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Since then, it sharply decreased as the Huguenots were no longer tolerated by both the French royalty and the Catholic masses.

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.

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

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

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

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

Foreign descendants of Huguenots lost the automatic right to French citizenship in 1945 .

Individual 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 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.

When Paul Roux, a pastor who arrived with the main group of Huguenots, died in 1724, the Dutch administration, as a special concession, permitted another French cleric to take his place "for the benefit of the elderly who spoke only French".

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.

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

The Huguenots adapted quickly and often married outside their immediate French communities, which led to their assimilation.

Huguenots originally spoke French on their arrival in the American colonies, but after two or three generations, they had switched to English.

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

Consequently, many 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.

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

Some 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 Huguenots who went to the colonies; his American grandfather was Leonard Jerome.

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

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

The Berlin Huguenots preserved the French language in their church services for nearly a century.

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

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