History of War

French Wars of Religion

During the late 16th century, France was consumed by decades of civil war between Roman Catholics and Huguenot Protestant­s

Medieval Europe’s superstate was thrust into chaos by decades of destructiv­e civil wars

SAINT BARTHOLOME­W’S DAY MASSACRE

After several religious wars across ten years, Catherine de Medici persuades her son Charles IX to order the assassinat­ion of around 200 Huguenot leaders. Parisian Catholic mobs use these killings as a pretext for largescale butchery. 3,000 Protestant­s are killed in Paris while tens of thousands more are murdered across France.