The
Huguenots (
/ˈhjuːɡənɒt/ or
/huːɡəˈnoʊ/;
French: [yɡˈno],
[yɡəˈno]) were members of the
Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. French Protestants were inspired by the writings of
John Calvin in the 1530s, and they were called Huguenots by the 1560s. By the end of the 17th century, roughly 200,000 Huguenots had fled France during a series of religious persecutions. They relocated to Protestant nations, such as
England,
Wales,
Denmark,
Switzerland, the
Dutch Republic, the
Electorate of Brandenburg,
Electorate of the Palatinate (both in the Holy Roman Empire), and the
Duchy of Prussia, and also to the Dutch
Cape Colony in present-day
South Africa and the English
13 colonies of
North America.
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