Events from the year 1579 in France
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Incumbents
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edit- April 10 – In the village of Cuers in France, near Toulon rebel peasants kill 600 nobles and upper-class gentlemen of the Catholic League serving the Count of Carces.[1]
- December 25 – Protestant French troops, under the command of Matthieu Merle, seized the capital of Gévaudan, Mende.[2]
Births
edit- August 18 - Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, fourth daughter of William the silent (b.1640)
- August 21- Henri, Duke of Rohan -French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots.(d.1638)
Deaths
edit- May 6 -François de Montmorency, French noble, governor of Île de France and 2nd Duke of Montmorency. (b.1530)
- Claude de Rohan-Gié, French lady-in-waiting, and a mistress of king Francis I of France. (b.1519)
See also
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References
edit- ^ Holt, Mack P. (2005). The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629. New Approaches to European History (2 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511817922. ISBN 978-0-521-83872-6.
- ^ "Mende history, south of france, Gévaudan's capital then Lozère's prefecture". Office de tourisme Mende - Cœur de Lozère. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
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