Aware of the danger of reprisals from the Protestants, the king and his court visited Coligny on his sickbed and promised him that the culprits would be punished. The story was fictionalised by Prosper Mrime in his Chronique du rgne de Charles IX (1829), and by Alexandre Dumas, pre in La Reine Margot, an 1845 novel that fills in the history as it was then seen with romance and adventure. The start of the massacre can be traced to familial, and religious, origins. [33] Apparently genuine letters from the Duke of Anjou, the king's younger brother, did urge massacres in the king's name; in Nantes the mayor fortunately held on to his without publicising it until a week later when contrary orders from the king had arrived. This traditional interpretation has been largely abandoned by some modern historians including, among others, Janine Garrisson. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. 1. ", This page was last edited on 23 April 2023, at 14:41. He contacted the Parisian authorities and another ambitious young man, running out of authority and power, Duke Henri de Guise (whose uncle, the clear-sighted Charles, cardinal of Lorraine, was then detained in Rome). Ostara publications. The murder of thousands of French Protestants by Catholics in August 1572 influenced not only the subsequent course of France's civil wars and state building, but also patterns of international alliance and long-standing cultural values across Europe. About twelve thousand Huguenots were killed between August 25 and October 3. The Guises were not prepared to make way for their rivals, the House of Montmorency. Catherine had not obtained Pope Gregory XIII's permission to celebrate this irregular marriage; consequently, the French prelates hesitated over which attitude to adopt. Estimates of the number that perished in the massacres have varied from 2,000 by a Roman Catholic apologist to 70,000 by the contemporary Huguenot Maximilien de Bthune, who himself barely escaped death. In his Histoire vritable de la ville de Lyon, the memorialist and former consul (town councillor) Claude de Rubys devoted just a few lines to the events of late August 1572, when the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacres had reached Lyon. All rights reserved. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - BFW Pub One of the first victims was Coligny, who was killed under the supervision of Henry de Guise himself. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre : a brief history with documents [9] In the massacres of August, the relatives of the Gastines family were among the first to be killed by the mob. Kill them! Orlans, Meaux, Angers, La Charit, Saumur, Gaillac and Troyes. The impending marriage led to the gathering of a large number of well-born Protestants in Paris but Paris was a violently anti-Huguenot city, and Parisians, who tended to be extreme Catholics, found their presence unacceptable. Copyright 2001-2023 OCLC. The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org Bartolomeusnag; Catharina de' Medici; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org