Edicts and treaties: The changing attitudes to Protestants

Question 1

Edict of Amboise

Wars of Religion

Answer 1

(End of war 1) 1563

Limited freedom of worship: allowed to worship in suburbs of one town per bailliage, noble estates.

Question 2

Edict of Longjemeau

Wars of Religion

Answer 2

(End of war 2) 1568 NO CHANGE SINCE 1563

Basically the same as Amboise

Question 3

Peace of Saint Germain

Wars of Religion

Answer 3

(End of war 3) 1570 IMPROVED SINCE 1568

• Worship allowed in 2 specified towns per bailliage
• Protestants occupy La Rochelle, Cognac, Montauban and La Charité.
• Equal taxation and land claimed after 1562 was returned.

Question 4

Peace of La Rochelle

Wars of Religion

Answer 4

(End of war 4) 1573 WORSENED SINCE 1570

• Worship allowed in private houses with in La Rochelle, Montauban and Nîmes.
• BANNED EVERYWHERE ELSE

Question 5

Peace of Monsieur

Wars of Religion

Answer 5

(End of war 5) 1576 IMPROVED SINCE 1573

• Free, public worship anywhere but Paris.
• Special law courts to ensure equality.
• Estates General to be called within 6 months
• Huguenots granted 8 surety towns
• Alençon given duchies + revenue of Anjou, Touraine and Berry + annual pension of 300,000 livres.

Question 6

Peace of Bergerac

Wars of Religion

Answer 6

(End of war 6) 1577 WORSENED SINCE 1576

• Worship restricted to suburbs of one town per bailiage and towns held by Huguenots on 17/9/1577.
• All leagues and confraternities were banned.
• Catholicism restored elsewhere.

Question 7

Peace of Felix

Wars of Religion

Answer 7

(End of war 7) 1580 NO CHANGE SINCE 1577

• Existing Protestant political and religious privileges acknowledged.
• Huguenots allowed to keep surety towns for another 6 years.

Question 8

Edict of Nantes

Wars of Religion

Answer 8

(End of war 8) 1598 IMPROVED SINCE 1580

• Legal recognition of French reformed churches.
• Protestants get same civil rights as Catholics.
• Huguenots free to acquire or inherit offices
• Bipartisan courts made in Parliaments to judge Protestant lawsuits.
• Allowed to worship in two places per bailliage, and wherever it could be proved it was openly practised in 1596-7.

Question 9

Edict of January

Catherine de Medeci and parlements

Answer 9

1562 IMPROVED SINCE PRE-1562

• Can worship outside town walls during the day.
• Not allowed to arm themselves, sing the psalms in public or worship freely without fear of persecution.
• Protestant nobles could organise and protect congregations on their own estates.

Question 10

Treaty of Nemours

League and Crown

Answer 10

1585 WORSENED

• Overturned all previous edicts of pacification.
• Pastors were banished.
• Protestantism banned everywhere.
• All Huguenots given 6 months to abjure or go into exile.