The Edict of Nantes was issued in 1598 by Henri IV of France to grant French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) equal rights with Catholics.
The Edict was introduced primarily to end the long-running, disruptive French Wars of Religion. Henri IV also had personal reasons for supporting the Edict. Until assuming the throne Henri himself had been a Protestant, and he remained sympathetic to their cause: he converted in order to become king, famously saying, "Paris is worth a Mass." The Edict succeeded in restoring peace and internal unity to France for many years.
In 1685, however, Louis XIV renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism illegal. This had very damaging results. While the wars of religion did not reignite, many Protestants
However, Henry VIII’s actions led to his three heirs, who helped transform the church; Edward VI wrote the first Book of Common Prayer that became the order for all services in the church of England, Mary Tudor decided to bring the nation back to Catholicism, and Elizabeth I inaugurated the beginning of religious stability in the Anglican Church. Although King Henry VIII changed the legality of the Church, he did not bring about revolutionary religious change in comparison to Martin Luther. Martin Luther’s writings caused the Protestant Reformation. His main ideas of the Bible being the primary source of religious authority and his justification through faith, shaped
First, he embraced a great religious toleration. Charles II brought back the Anglican Church, but he didn’t deiced the state religion and force his belief on others. He successfully maintained the religious harmony in his country. In contrast, Louis XIV of France, who believed in the motto, "one king, one law, one faith," established a bunch of anti-Protestant policies, aimed at converting the Hugue nots to Catholicism, and such action rendered France in conflicts. Besides, Charle I’s refusal to compromise over complex religious situations led to the eventual civil war.
In 1520, he was threatened with excommunication by the Pope if he didn’t recant his 95 Theses. However, Luther didn’t care and stood with his beliefs and was eventually excommunicated. Luther was eventually declared a heretic and an outlaw with Charles V’s Edict of Worms. The German people would however, protect Luther for twenty five years. Also, in the year 1522, Lutheranism was created as the first Protestant religion.
According to Milton Meltzer, what was one action Louis XIV took in an attempt to control the Protestants in France? According to Milton Meltzer in order to control the Huguenots Louis XIV stated that the majority of the Huguenots were converted to Catholicism therefore the edict of Nantes that protected the Huguenots was revoked. Louis XIV also did not allow Protestants to live the country but promised that they still will be able to worship privately. However, Huguenots’ churches were demolished and their gathering were
Charles V launched military campaigns to weed out Lutheranism and employed the Spanish Inquisition to target members of other faiths. The Pope in the Papal States would
The Anglicans became the majority in England and had superiority over the Roman Catholics. As more Catholics plotted to harm Queen Elizabeth I, her feelings for the Catholics hardens and they were executed for their wrongful thoughts (Source 4). The Act of Supremacy was an act influenced by her belief and was passed by the Queen. The original document of the act explains that “the reign of [Elizabeth’s] most dear father of worthy memory, King Henry VIII, divers good laws and statutes were made and established [...] as also for the restoring and uniting to the imperial crown of this realm the ancient jurisdictions, authorities, superiorities.” The Act of Supremacy denied the authority of the Roman Catholic Church of England and gave full power to the Church of
The nobles over time felt they needed to please Louis in return for letting them live in the Palace of Versailles (Doc 5). Louis attempted to control Protestants in France by making them convert to Catholicism. In addition he would not allow them to leave the country and he took down their churches (Doc 6). Louis taking this action
Starting in 1517, there was a schism between people and their minds. These people fought for what they believed no matter how similar or how different, however, the battles fought between the factions were justified by any means necessary. The battles took great tolls on both sides, over fifty million people were killed. This discrepancy in belief was called the Protestant Reformation, started by Martin Luther. The main two factions of the Reformation were the Protestants and the Papacy; the Papacy having the backing of Spain and all of the corrupt rulers that wanted power and Martin Luther and his Protestants having the backing of princes and rulers looking for opportunity in political and financial front, though some of Luther’s backers did
The Protestant Reformation in England, starting in 1534 with the Act of Supremacy led to a disheveled nation affected by many new policies implemented by King Henry the eighth. Catholics protested the new policies with the Pilgrimage of Grace lasting from October 1536 to February 1537. Concerning participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace was Thomas Cromwell’s subjective orders and the effects resulting from the King imposing his authority over the peasants. Participants in this march were vying for the restoration of Catholic traditions and ways of life. All of this was in response to those who were against this movement and were working to raise the Crown’s authority after being worried about an uprising or revolt against the Protestant King.
Pobj Summan AP Euro Period 4 10-17-2017 DBQ During the 16th century the large religious movement known as the Protestant Reformation took place. Protestantism was a new way of religion that challenged the usual Catholic religion. It was a very controversial idea throughout Europe, where as many countries accepted it as their religion but the countries part of the Holy Roman Empire were against it.
In 1520, Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, and he and his followers – the majority of whom were peasants - became known as Protestants. Inspired by Luther and his ideas, the peasants revolted against their lords. Initially arising as a call for change and justice, the peasant revolt took a violent turn and brought to light the contrasting views and values of Christianity, which ultimately led to the destruction of a unified Catholic Church and Europe. Clergy supporting
King Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes (1598), giving the religious minorities freedom to practice their religion in private (Document 3). Henry was a politique, meaning he believed political importance was above religion, so he issued the Edict of Nantes trying to gain support of his subjects. In 1691, a group of regents issued a contract with the Franciscan friar Egidius de Glabbais, authorizing him to open a new Catholic church in the city of Amsterdam, but with the building of the new church came some rules the people had to follow. No one was allowed to pass by the church in groups, with a church book, rosary or other item that can be considered offensive. Also, the entrance would be in the alley and not in the main street to not give any offense to other religions (Document 6).
Chaos: The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would disruption that separated Catholic define the continent in the modern and central Europe, like Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry Vill challenged papal authority and questioned the Church 's ability to define Christian practice. They argued for a religious and political redistribution of power into the hands of Bible- and pamphlet-reading pastors and princes. The disruption triggered wars, persecutions and the so-called Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church 's delayed but forceful response to the Protestants. The main chaos that caused reformation were religious,
Democracy is a form of government in which power lies with the people. This means that the people of the said community can either rule directly or indirectly by electing officials to make decisions for the betterment of the people. Democracy is an aspect that can be included in many different governments including, republics, monarchies, and theocracies. In America today, democracy is something we take pride in. This form of government had to start somewhere, however, and ideas of democracy can be shown in many early documents written by some of the first peoples to colonize the Americas.
¬The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement that started in 1517. It was made to reform the Catholic Church. People wanted their religion to be simple and not have so many rules. Also, they did not like the fact that the Pope had so much power. This movement caused Protestants and Catholics to fight each other over their religious views.