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    Edict of Saint-Germain (French: édit de tolérance de Saint-Germain), also known as the Edict of January (Édit de janvier), was a landmark decree of tolerance...
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    The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on 8 August 1570 by Charles IX of France, Gaspard II de Coligny and Jeanne d'Albret, and ended the 1568...
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    reading or possession of his writings. The edict permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence. Edict of Saint-Germain (1562), by Catherine...
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    1559–1562 French political crisis (category French Wars of Religion)
    the Edict of Saint-Germain on 17 January. The publishing of the edict finished the alienation of the lieutenant-general Navarre from the government of which...
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    "the word of God is to be freely and truthfully preached by the priests of the Lord, and by worthy deacons". 1562 – The Edict of Saint-Germain, by Catherine...
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    [citation needed] 17 January 1562: Edict of Saint-Germain, often called the "Edict of January" 1 March 1562: Massacre of Vassy (Wassy) March 1562 – March...
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    Montmorency, Guise and Saint-André all disarm and withdraw from court. Condé further wished to see the Edict of Saint-Germain fully implemented. The secrétaires...
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    Bertrand-Rambaud de Simiane (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    rebels. The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye offered the most extensive provisions to the Protestant community of France since the Edict of January in 1562...
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    Michel de l'Hôpital (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    championed the Edict of 19 April, July and Saint-Germain. The former two which moderated persecution of Protestantism and the latter of which legalised...
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    Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain in January 1562. Nonetheless, the Massacre of Vassy, perpetrated on 1 March 1562, when the Duke of Guise and his...
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    city council of Dijon wrote to Aumale, pleading with him to greenlight the arrest of all Protestants who violated the Edict of Saint-Germain. This was despite...
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    The Edict of July, also known as the Edict of Saint-Germain was a decree of limited tolerance promulgated by the regent of France, Catherine de' Medici...
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    Huguenots (category French Wars of Religion)
    widow, in the summer of 1561. In 1561, the Edict of Orléans declared an end to the persecution, and the Edict of Saint-Germain of January 1562 formally...
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    concerning the Edict of Saint-Germain, writing urgently to Guise to return to court so they could present a united front against the edict. On his way to...
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    rival the Montmorency. In 1562, Catherine would promulgate the Edict of Saint-Germain. Francis returned to court so that he might oppose it, on his way...
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    edicts of Saint-Germain, Amboise and the peace of Longjumeau. The edict forbade the exercise of any religion other than Catholicism in the kingdom of...
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    Edict of Saint-Germain in a further attempt to build bridges with the Protestants. On 1 March 1562, however, in an incident known as the Massacre of Vassy...
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    Edict of Saint-Germain. During the reign of Henry II several attempts were made to crush the nascent Protestant movement in France. With the edicts of...
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    Gaspard II de Coligny (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    this time the colony of Fort Caroline in Spanish Florida led by Jean Ribault, it would prove a failure. The edict of Saint-Germain was the final straw...
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    Chambre Ardente (category Law of the Ancien Régime)
    approach of sending heretics to the bishops and Church courts for trial was to be implemented. Three years later, the King's Edict of Saint Germain en Laye...
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    with the Huguenot House of Bourbon. She therefore supported religious toleration in the shape of the Edict of Saint-Germain (January 1562), which allowed...
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    tolerance. This manifested in the publication of the Edict of Saint-Germain in January 1562 which allowed for freedom of conscience and private worship, and a...
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    superseded first by the Edict of Romorantin in May of the same year, then the Edict of July and finally the Edict of Saint-Germain Under Henri II France's...
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    the latter of whom died young in 1560. Catherine de' Medici, regent of Charles IX, proposed the Edict of January (or Edict of Saint-Germain) with the hopes...
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    degree of toleration, though more restricted than the sweeping Edict of Saint-Germain in 1562. It largely favoured the aristocratic elements of the Huguenot...
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    members to maintain two hundred unarmed guards in line with the Edict of Saint-Germain, the Catholics were allowed a similar number to serve under four...
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    sweeping Edict of July a few months later, before it in turn was superseded by the first edict of toleration, the Edict of Saint-Germain. The growth of Protestantism...
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  • chief minister of France or, closer to the French term, chief minister of state (French: principal ministre d'État), or prime minister of France were and...
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    matters for him, relating to issues in the Netherlands, and the Edict of Saint-Germain. Charles declined to discuss these matters, saying that he wanted...
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    marked the end of the French Wars of Religion, which had afflicted France during the second half of the 16th century. The Edict of St. Germain, promulgated...
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