Ch.4 The Wars of Religion

Question 1

Francis I

Answer 1

• King of France
• Led troops against the Holy Roman Empire
• Captured by Charles V
• Alliance with England through the marriage of Charles’s sister
• Date: 1500s

Question 2

Henry of Navarre (IV)

Answer 2

French king who was originally Protestant

• 1st BOURBON KING
• -people started to revolt “Paris is worth a mass”
• –converted to Catholicism
• —-Passed the Edict of Nantes

Question 3

Saint Bartholomeus Day Massacre

Answer 3

A massacre Planed by Catherine de’ Medici

• Catholic mobs killed 70,000 Huguenots
• Henry converts

Question 4

Huguenots

Answer 4

A French Protestant

-Calvinist influence

Question 5

Edict of Nantes

Answer 5

By the once Protestant Henry IV

• granted some rights to the Huguenots
• a way to keep the peace

Question 6

Charles Loyseau

Answer 6

French jurist and lawyer

-organized French Society

Question 7

Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 7

Made all the important decisions during Louis XIII’s reign, didn’t want the Habsburgs to have power in France, wanted it all to be about Catholics in France

• Chief Minister to the King
• Eliminated political and military rights of Huguenots while preserving their religious ones.

Question 8

Louis XIII

Answer 8

Relied on Cardinal Richelieu to govern France

Question 9

30 year war

Answer 9

In 1618 war breaks out between the Protestant Union and Catholic League
Holy Roman Empire is split in 2 between Catholics and Protestants.

Question 10

Bohemia

Answer 10

HRE restricted Protestantism

• closed several churches
• Protestants threw HRE officials out window
• -Phase one of the war
• –Protestants lost the war, and there were no protestants left in Bohemia

Question 11

Catholic league

Answer 11

Formed by ultra-Catholics in 1576 with the goal of exterminating heresy and putting a true Catholic champion (Henry, duke of Guise) on the French throne.

• wanted no more Protestants
• Pope Sixtus V, the Jesuits and Philip II of Spain were all supporters

Question 12

Albrecht Wallenstein

Answer 12

Catholic Bohemian nobleman who raised a large mercenary army to fight for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War. He was killed after it was rumored he was negotiating with the protestants.

Question 13

King Christian of Denmark

Answer 13

Was the king of Denmark during the 30 Years War; Denmark was defeated by the Holy Roman Empire

Question 14

Gustavus Adolphus (Sweden)

Answer 14

King os Sweden

• led protestant forces
• won battle of Breitenfeld (no Catholic Germany)
• killed in another battle

Question 15

Treaty of Westphalia

Answer 15

ENDED THE THIRTY YEARS WAR

• ended Catholic reformation in Germany
• Netherlands and Switzerland gained independence from Spain
• Hapsburg’s power declined
• Weakened HRE