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The French Wars of Religion began with the Massacre of Vassy on 1 March 1562, when dozens [47] (some sources say hundreds [48]) of Huguenots were killed, and about 200 were wounded. It was in this year that some Huguenots destroyed the tomb and remains of Saint Irenaeus (d. 202), an early Church father and bishop who was a disciple of Polycarp ...
Children who were healthy enough for labor were often worked to death doing jobs to benefit the camp; other times, children were forced to do unnecessary jobs like digging ditches. [ citation needed ] In July 1945, Judge Stanisław Żmuda interviewed a former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, who stated that the younger children who ...
Historians estimate that 2,000 Huguenots were killed in Paris and thousands more in the provinces; in all, perhaps 10,000 people were killed. [103] Henry of Navarre and his cousin, the young Prince of Condé, managed to avoid death by agreeing to convert to Catholicism. Both repudiated their conversions after they escaped Paris. [104] [105] [106]
The members of the Protestant religion in France, the Huguenots, had been granted substantial religious, political and military freedom by Henry IV in his Edict of Nantes. Later, following renewed warfare, they were stripped of their political and military privileges by Louis XIII, but retained their religious
Popular fury also plays a key part in explaining responsibility, as in towns such as Rouen and Lyon, where the governors did not wish to lead a massacre, and instead, the prisons where they were keeping the Huguenots in protective custody were broken into by angry mobs, who then set about killing all the Huguenots inside. [14] [15]
The Ulmas were killed at home by German Nazi troops and by Nazi-controlled local police in the small hours of March 24, 1944, together with the eight Jews they were hiding at their home, after ...
Huguenots (French Protestants) were massacred Aups massacre 16 August 1574: Aups: 18 Protestants 18 killed by Protestant troops. Town looted and burned. First Issoire massacre 15 October 1575: Issoire: Unknown Protestants Catholics killed by Protestant troops under Matthieu Merle. Town looted. Second Issoire massacre 12 June 1577: Issoire ...
The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events (occurring largely in the span of a week) that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France (often called Huguenots) against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse.