Huguenots

Huguenots

 

1-The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of Franceduring the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

2-Since the seventeenth century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the Calvinists.

3-French Protestants were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s, and they were called Huguenots by the 1560s.

4-By the end of the 17th century, roughly 200,000 Huguenots had been driven from France during a series of religious persecutions.

5-They relocated primarily to protestant nations including England, Switzerland, the Dutch Republic, the German Electorate of Prussia and the German Palatinate, and also to South Africa and North America.