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Battle Of Orthez 1569
The Battle of Orthez was fought during the French Wars of Religion, at Orthez on Wednesday August 24, 1569. Huguenot forces under the leadership of Gabriel de Montgomery defeated Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre. Following the battle, Huguenot forces killed many of their Catholic prisoners. Background In the later half of the sixteenth century, all Aquitaine above the Garonne except for Bordeaux was in Protestant hands. At that time, Orthez was the largest and most dynamic city of Béarn. It was a market town which served as the main funnel for products making their way to Bayonne for export. Orthez was therefore quite wealthy. One wealthy Protestant, Adrien-Arnaud de Gachassin, had gifted his mansion in Orthez to Jeanne d' Albret in 1555 (today, it is called Maison of Jeanne d' Albret and has become a museum of how wealthy Protestants lived). The Huguenots were therefore desirous of capturing the important and wealthy town of Orthez. En route to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Wars Of Religion
The French Wars of Religion is the term which is used in reference to a period of civil war between French Catholic Church, Catholics and Protestantism, Protestants, commonly called Huguenots, which lasted from 1562 to 1598. According to estimates, between two and four million people died from violence, famine or diseases which were directly caused by the conflict; additionally, the conflict severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. The fighting ended in 1598 when Henry of Navarre, who had converted to Catholicism in 1593, was proclaimed Henry IV of France and issued the Edict of Nantes, which granted substantial rights and freedoms to the Huguenots. However, the Catholics continued to have a hostile opinion of Protestants in general and they also continued to have a hostile opinion of him as a person, and his assassination in 1610 triggered a fresh round of Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s. Tensions between the two religions had been building since the 1530s, exacerba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguenots
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a Religious denomination, religious group of French people, French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th century. ''Huguenot'' was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle (department), Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutheranism, Lutherans. In his ''Encyclopedia of Protestantism'', Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the ''dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artix, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Artix (; oc, Artics) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Artisiens'' or ''Artisiennes''. Geography Artix is located some 12 km north-west of Lescar and 14 km south-east of Orthez. Access to the commune is by main road D817 from Lacq in the north-west passing through the commune and south of the town and continuing south-east to Denguin. Access to the town from the D817 is on the D280 which links the two ends of the bypass. There are also the D263 road going north to Urdès, the D663 going north-east to Serres-Sainte-Marie, the D32 going east to Cescau, and the D281 going south-east to join the D33 north-west of Noguères. The A64 autoroute also passes through the north-eastern corner with Exit 9 exiting to the D817 in the commune. The SNCF Toulouse-Bayonne railway line also passes through the commune with Artix station just south of the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gave De Pau
The Gave de Pau () is a river of south-western France. It takes its name from the city of Pau, through which it flows. The river is long ( including the Gaves réunis), and its source is at the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees mountains. The Gave de Pau joins the Gave d'Oloron in Peyrehorade to form the about long Gaves réunis (united Gaves), which is a left tributary of the Adour. The Gaves réunis is often considered to be part of the Gave de Pau. Its main tributaries are the Béez, the Néez, the Ouzoum and the Ousse. The Gave de Pau flows through the following ''départements'' and towns: * Hautes-Pyrénées: Argelès-Gazost, Lourdes. * Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau, Orthez. * Landes: Peyrehorade Peyrehorade (; oc, Pèirahorada) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarrenx
Navarrenx (; oc, Navarrencs, ; eu, Nabarrengose, eu, label=Zuberoan, Nabarrenkoxe) is a town and commune in the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( Béarn) and the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The demonym is Navarre. Since 2014, the town has been in the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France. Etymology The name Navarrenx comes from ''sponda Navarrensi'', meaning the "bedstead of Navarre" or "House of the Navarreses". According to linguist Michel Grosclaude it may have meant the edge of the Navarre. There may be kinship between the Basque radical '' Navarre'' and Navarrenx, but Basque philologists hesitate to link the several etymologies. The first written mention of the name of the city lies in a charter of 1078. Navarrenx (Navarrensis) is mentioned five times. History The earliest history of the site dates to the first century. Navarrenx is reported in a cartulary of the eleventh century under the name of Sponda-Navarrensis. There was a long-standing agree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gave (placename Element)
The French word ''gave'' is a generic name referring to torrential rivers, in the west side of the Pyrenees. In the central part of the Pyrenees, the name ''neste'' has the same function. The word ''gave'' derives from the old Gascon ''gabar'', attested as ''gabarrus'' in medieval Latin.Theodule (8th century - 9th century) Based on a pre-Celtic root ''*gab'' meaning 'hollow' (thus 'throat'), it refers to lower places, valleys and rivers. It is widely found in placenames of Gascony as Gabardan, Gavarret, Gavarnie, Gabas, etc. The name of the ''Gabali'' (the ancient people living in Gévaudan) is supposed to be related to this stem. The final ''-r'' is missing because it was lost in Gascon: gabar > gabà > . Gaves in the Pyrenees * gaves réunis * gave d'Arrens * gave d'Aspe, * gave d' Aspé, * gave de Baralet, * gave de Bélonce, * gave de Bious, * gave de Brousset, * gave de Cauterets, * gave de Cestrède, * gave d' Estaubé, * gave du Lavedan, * gave de Gaube, * gave d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Foix
The arrondissement of Foix is an arrondissement of France in the Ariège department in the Occitania region. It has 115 communes. Its population is 47,572 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Foix, and their INSEE codes, are: # Albiès (09004) #Alliat (09006) #Appy (09012) #Arabaux (09013) #Arignac (09015) #Arnave (09016) # Artigues (09020) # Artix (09021) #Ascou (09023) #Aston (09024) # Aulos-Sinsat (09296) #Auzat (09030) # Axiat (09031) #Ax-les-Thermes (09032) # Baulou (09044) #Bédeilhac-et-Aynat (09045) # Bénac (09049) # Bestiac (09053) #Bompas (09058) # Le Bosc (09063) # Bouan (09064) # Brassac (09066) #Burret (09068) # Les Cabannes (09070) # Calzan (09072) # Capoulet-et-Junac (09077) # Carcanières (09078) #Caussou (09087) #Caychax (09088) #Cazaux (09090) #Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens (09092) # Celles (09093) # Château-Verdun (09096) # Cos (09099) # Coussa (09101) #Crampagna (09103) # Dalou (09104) #Ferrières-sur-Ariège (09121) #Foi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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