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Huguenot rebellions

Years: 1620 - 1628

The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, refers to events of the 1620s in which French Protestant Huguenots, mainly located in southwestern France, revolt against the central Royal power of the French government.

The uprising follows the death of Henry IV, who, himself originally a Huguenot before converting to Catholicism, had protected Protestants through the Edict of Nantes.

The new ruler however, Louis XIII, under the regency of his Italian Catholic mother Marie de' Medici, becomes more intolerant of the Protestant religion.

The Huguenots try to respond by defending themselves, establishing independent political and military structures, establishing diplomatic contacts with foreign powers, and openly revolting against central power.

The Huguenot rebellions follow two decades of internal peace under Henry IV, following the intermittent French Wars of Religion of 1562–1598.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)