Edict of Beaulieu
The Edict of Beaulieu (also known at the time as the Peace of Monsieur) was promulgated from
Protestant
army besieging Paris that spring.
The Edict, which was negotiated by the king's brother, Monsieur—
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the families which had suffered from it were to be returned to positions of prominence and fairly compensated. These large concessions to the Huguenots and the approbation given to their political organization led to the formation of the Catholic League, which was organized by Catholics anxious to defend their religion.[4]
The King held a (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practiced before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date.
See also
References
- ^ Beaulieu lies directly across the river Indre from Loches.
- ^ Pierre Miquel, p. 314.
- Jacques-Auguste de Thouremarked in his Histoire universelle, based on notes he had been accumulating. "Thus his apanage was augmented with the three richest provinces in the kingdom: Berry, Touraine and Anjou." (Quoted by Mack P. Holt, "The King in Parlement: The Problem of the Lit de Justice in Sixteenth-Century France" The Historical Journal 31.3 [September 1988:507-523] p. 310).
- OCLC 501404324.
- Pierre de l'Estoilerecorded in his diary "This was so odious to the Court, that if the King had not come there in person, it would never have been published" (Quoted Holt 1988:511).
- ^ According to the papal nuncio, Antonio Maria Salviati, "La corte non voleva emologare le lettere, ma il Re in persona vi è andato..." Holt 1988, eo. loc..
Sources
- Pierre Miquel, Les Guerres de religion, Fayard, 1980. ISBN 2-7242-0785-8.
- Wilkinson, Maurice, "The Wars of Religion in the Périgord", The English Historical Review 21, No. 84., October 1906, (Oxford University Press).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Huguenots". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.