French Catholic political and military leader Anne, …
Years: 1567 - 1567
November
French Catholic political and military leader Anne, duc de Montmorency, now in his mid-seventies, dies on November 12, 1567 from multiple wounds received in the battle of Saint-Denis, near Paris, in this Second War of Religion between French Huguenots and Roman Catholics.
Montmorency’s opposite number on the Huguenot side, Prince Louis de Condé, sustains his position despite numerical odds.
Locations
People
- Anne de Montmorency
- Catherine de' Medici
- Charles IX
- Charles de Guise
- Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé
Groups
Topics
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Religion, Second War of
