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- Henry IV Michel de L’Hospital Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
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- Protestantism
Huguenot, any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it appears to have come from the word aignos, derived from the German Eidgenossen (confederates bound together by oath), which used to describe, between 1520 and 1524, the patriots of Geneva hostile to the duke of Savoy. The spelling Huguenot may have been influenced by the personal name Hugues, “Hugh”; a leader of the Geneva movement was one Besançon Hugues (d. 1532). After the Protestant Reformation began in Germany (1517), ...(100 of 1168 words)