The rule of the Guises was filled with religious desputes, and when Francois died at only 16 and his 9 year old brother became King, Catherine was made Governor of …show more content…
III, and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, making it slightly hard to follow. I found out that the Huguenot Wars is the name for the fighting that occurred between 1562 and 1598 between Catholics and Protestants, or Huguenots. Catherine de’ Medici showed compassion towards the Huguenots, as they were growing in numbers in her kingdom, but this angered the Catholic Guises. Their supporters attacked a protestant congregation at Vassy, angering the provinces. This massacre was followed by many smaller fights, eventually ending in compromise in 1570. In 1572, a Huguenot leader, Gaspard II de Coligny, was murdered, and Civil war plagued France for four more years. In 1576, another compromise was made, allowing the Protestants freedom of worship. The peace did not last long, as in 1584, a Huguenot, Henry of Navarre, became heir to the Throne. This apparently led to another war under another name, The War of the Three Henrys, a war within a war. The Three Henrys were Henry of Navarre, the previously mentioned Huguenot heir, King Henry III of France, a moderate and the son of Catherine de Medici, and Henri I de Lorraine, duc de Guise, an extreme Catholic. I was curious as to how Henry of Navarre got to be heir to the throne, and I think royal family trees are super cool, so I looked it up and I will try to explain it clearly. So Catherine and