Fourth; 1572–1573 Mons; Sommières; Sancerre; La Rochelle
Fifth; 1574–1576 Dormans
Sixth; 1577 La Charité-sur-Loire; Issoire; Brouage
Seventh; 1580 La Fère
War of the Three Henrys (1585–1589) Coutras; Vimory; Auneau; Day of the Barricades
Succession of Henry IV of France (1589–1594) Arques; Ivry; Paris; Château-Laudran; Rouen; Caudebec; Craon; 1st Luxembourg; Blaye; Morlaix; Fort Crozon
Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) 2nd Luxembourg; Fontaine-Française; Ham; Le Catelet; Doullens; Cambrai; Calais; La Fère; Ardres; Amiens
The surprise of Meaux (La surprise de Meaux) was a failed coup attempt by leading aristocratic Huguenots which precipitated the second French War of Religion. Dissatisfied with their lot, and under the pretext of fear of extermination, Louis, Prince of Condé and Gaspard II de Coligny plotted to seize the king, Charles IX, while he was staying near Meaux. Alerted by the mustering of the Huguenots, the royal court made a dash for Paris, fighting off attempts to break through to them en route. Their plan foiled, the Huguenots laid siege to the city, beginning the second war. The event would be of lasting importance in the reputation it gave its architects for sedition.
The surpriseofMeaux (La surprise de Meaux) was a failed coup attempt by leading aristocratic Huguenots which precipitated the second French War of Religion...
outbreak of the second French War of Religion after the failure of the SurpriseofMeaux. The massacre represented one of the largest non-military massacres...
François de Coligny d'Andelot are pointed out as one of the instigators of the famous SurpriseofMeauxof 1567. She was born to Claude I de Rieux (1497–1532)...
unsuccessfully tried to capture and take control of King Charles IX in the SurpriseofMeaux, a number of cities, such as La Rochelle, declared themselves...
days prior, their forces conjoining at Meaux on 27 March. He wrote to Catherine at this time, defending the arming of his men as being customary for a gentleman...
1567, during the SurpriseofMeaux, the royal family escaped capture by Prince de Condé's Protestant troops through the intervention of the Cent-Suisses...
however last, with leading members of the Protestant nobility attempting a coup against the crown in the SurpriseofMeaux. Morvillier was absent for the...
as the Protestant nobility attempted to seize the king during the SurpriseofMeaux, and across France their co-religionists seized towns. In Provence...
Michel de l'Hôpital, conscious that his conciliatory response to the SurpriseofMeaux had lost him Catherine's confidence, withdrew from attending council...
Protestant coups after the SurpriseofMeaux. While the combat of the early civil wars had been centred around the upper Loire and north of France, the Protestant...
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