La Sainte Ligue

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La Sainte Ligue was a powerful late 16th-century French Catholic political and military alliance formed to oppose Protestant influence and shape the outcome of the French Wars of Religion.

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instanceOf Catholic League
political alliance
religious league
activeDuring French Wars of Religion NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Catholic League (France) NERFINISHED
Holy League NERFINISHED
conflict French Wars of Religion NERFINISHED
War of the Three Henrys NERFINISHED
country France
dissolvedAfter Edict of Nantes NERFINISHED
endTime 1590s
goal defense of Catholicism in France
exclusion of Henry of Navarre from the French throne
suppression of French Protestants
hasPart Catholic clergy
Parisian Catholic militants
noble Catholic factions
headquarters Paris NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod late 16th century
ideology Counter-Reformation
influencedEvent Day of the Barricades NERFINISHED
accession of Henry IV of France
assassination of Henry I, Duke of Guise
assassination of King Henry III of France
inspiredBy Council of Trent NERFINISHED
leader Henry I, Duke of Guise NERFINISHED
notableMember Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon NERFINISHED
Duke of Mayenne NERFINISHED
Henry I, Duke of Guise NERFINISHED
notableStronghold Catholic regions of northern France
Paris NERFINISHED
opposed Edict of Beaulieu NERFINISHED
Henry of Navarre NERFINISHED
opposedBy Huguenots NERFINISHED
Politiques NERFINISHED
opposedReligion Protestantism
politicalPosition ultra-Catholic
region Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
significantEvent War of the Three Henrys NERFINISHED
startTime 1576
supportedBy Philip II of Spain NERFINISHED
Spain NERFINISHED
typeOfOrganization confessional league
usedLanguage French

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