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Type of calvinist, genevan

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Huguenot writers later accused Catherine of murdering her with poisoned gloves.
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Huguenot numbers grew rapidly between 1555 and 1561, chiefly amongst nobles and city dwellers.
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Huguenot refugees flocked to Shoreditch, London in large numbers.
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Huguenot Protestants pillaged the abbey a second time at the onset of the French Wars of Religion.
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Huguenot nobles in the building had first put up a fight.
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Huguenot refugees found a safe haven in the Lutheran and Reformed states in Germany and Scandinavia.
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Huguenot writers branded Catherine a scheming Italian, who had acted on Machiavelli's principles to kill all enemies in one blow.
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Huguenot regiments fought for William of Orange in the Williamite war in Ireland, for which they were rewarded with land grants and titles, many settling in Dublin.
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  • A French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
  • The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. ...
  • Huguenot is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Huguenot, Staten Island, New York. It is located on an open cut at Huguenot Avenue on the main line. It has two side platforms, exit stairs at the south end, and a brick stationhouse built in 1939 on street level. ...
  • A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1852) is a painting by John Everett Millais. The long title is usually abbreviated to A Huguenot or A Huguenot on St Bartholomew's Day.
  • (Huguenots) French Protestants, some of whom were pirates, who challenged Spain for New World dominance during the 1500s.
  • (Huguenots) French Protestants who followed ideas of Calvin, driven into exile in 17th century
  • French Calvinist Protestants who fled to London following the suppression of Protestantism in France after the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
  • French Protestants who fled from religious persecution. They first went to Prussia, the German Palatinate and then came to America. Those in the French West Indies escaped to the southeastern coast of America. Others went to England and Ireland.