huguenot in English

noun
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a French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.
The first Huguenot ministers arrived in France in 1553.

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1. Huguenot churchyard near there.

2. The powerful anti - Huguenot Holy League was formed in 15

3. The Treaty of Bergerac (1577), between Henry III and the Huguenot princes

4. As a teenager, Henry joined the Huguenot forces in the French Wars of Religion.

5. Since 1536, Geneva had been a Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism.

6. A Huguenot political party was formed in 1573 to fight for religious and civil liberties.

7. Like a Huguenot imagining Rome, he built up a picture of frivolity, viciousness and corruption.

8. The fact that the Grimkes came of notable Southern Huguenot stock made their case especially poignant.

9. (In the polemics that followed, the term "Huguenot" for France's Protestants came into widespread usage.)

10. George Beldam was the eldest child of a family that was descended from seventeenth-century Huguenot refugees

11. In 1621 he abandoned this enterprise to serve on the Huguenot side in the civil wars.

12. “The second war was precipitated by Huguenot fears of an international Catholic plot,” says The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

13. Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships, the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.

14. In 1681 he instituted the policy of dragonnades, to intimidate Huguenot families to convert to Roman Catholicism or emigrate.

15. When confronted with the problem of Huguenot Apprisings, Richelieu with both his political shrewdness and genuine humanity advised the King to confirm …

16. The Afrikaner group are individuals derived from mainly Dutch, French Huguenot and German stock as a consequence of North European settlement of the Cape

17. Earlier was Barricado (1580s) with false Spanish ending (see -ado).Revolutionary associations began during 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled

18. Maitland claimed that Chastelard's ardour was feigned, and that he was part of a Huguenot plot to discredit Mary by tarnishing her reputation.

19. A city of western France on the Bay of Biscay southwest of Tours. It was a Huguenot stronghold in the16th century. Population, 8

20. A HUGUENOT FAMILY IN XVI CENTURY: MEMOIRS OF PHILIPPE DU MORNAY, SOEUR DU PLESSIS MARLY By Lucy Crump, Charlotte Arbaleste De Mornay **BRAND NEW**.

21. Charlotte Arbaleste de Mornay, A Huguenot Family in the XVI Century: the memoirs of Philippe de Mornay, sieur du Plessis Marly written by his …

22. The first French Huguenot community was founded in 15 and the confession of faith drawn up by the first synod in 1559 was influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.

23. But just over a year later it all came crashing down on the 27-year-old Huguenot resident, alleges a blockbuster $125 million lawsuit against Dolan, the Archdiocese of New York, NAC …

24. Isaac's mother, who was descended from the Tauntons of Huguenot blood, was a member of a wealthy, influential family in Southampton. In her the love of freedom mingled with the joy of religious song.

25. Arabin Family of Kilmacud Bartholomew Arabin du Bardell married Jane Renee Of Provence 15 Jul 1699 of St Julien Died 1712 Died 1732 From a Huguenot family, Bartholomew was the aide de camp of the Earl of Galway, he was involved

26. The first Copybook published in England, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570; this title also translates Cresci’s), is the work of a French Huguenot immigrant writing master, Jean de Beauchesne, and John Baildon (or Basildon), about whom nothing further is known.