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Louis Claude Deupree, II

Male Abt 1533 - Abt 1612  (~ 79 years)


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  • Name Louis Claude Deupree 
    Suffix II 
    Born Abt 1533  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt 1612  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7175  MyTree
    Last Modified 28 Aug 2014 

    Father Louis Claude Deupree, I,   b. 1517, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1572, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Alice Jospin,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3817  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Suzanne Moeze,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Claude Deupree,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Jean Deupree,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. David Deupree,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Richard Deupree,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Louis Deupree,   b. Abt 1561, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1622, LaRochelle, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F3816  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • France is affected by the Reformation in a manner and to an extent
      different from any other country. The reason is that the community is
      split from top to bottom on the issue; and the sides are so evenly
      balanced that a civil war based largely on religion lasts for four
      decades.
      During the first half of the 16th century the reformed faith
      spreads among the ordinary people of France, encouraged by missionary
      priests trained in Geneva. The Protestants, who become known in France
      as Huguenots, are confident enough to organize in 1559 a national
      synod in Paris.
      By this time there are powerful aristocrats in the Protestant
      camp, among them even members of the great Bourbon dynasty - a branch
      of the royal family, by distant descent from Louis IX. Their enemies
      are the Guise family, passionately committed to the Catholic cause.
      France's wars of religion in the 16th century are also a struggle
      between these rival camps.
      In 1559, the year of the Protestant synod in Paris, Henry II dies
      (he is killed jousting in a tournament). For the next three decades
      the throne of France is occupied in succession by three of his sons.
      But the first two are in their teens when they inherit. The real power
      lies with the Guise family and with Henry's widow, Catherine de
      Médicis.
      At first, in 1559, the Guises have the upper hand. The young king,
      Francis II, is married to Mary Queen of Scots - whose mother is a
      Guise. But Francis dies in 1560. With the accession of her second son,
      Charles IX, Catherine de Médicis becomes regent.
      While sporadic warfare continues in France between Catholic and
      Protestant forces, Catherine's main concern is to retain a balance of
      power which will keep her family on the throne. To this end she
      arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margaret, and Henry of
      Navarre - the leading member of the Bourbon family. The wedding takes
      place in 1572. It is followed within a week by the atrocities of St
      Bartholomew's day.
      Many of France's Huguenot nobility are in Paris in August 1572 for
      the wedding of the princess Margaret and Henry of Navarre. Four days
      after the ceremony there is an assassination attempt on a leading
      Protestant, Admiral Coligny. It is probably planned by the regent,
      Catherine de Médicis, together with the Guise family. But the admiral
      is only wounded.
      The bungled plot prompts Catherine to over-react. She orders a
      massacre of all the Huguenots in Paris. The killing begins before dawn
      on August 24, St Bartholomew's day. Shops are pillaged, families
      butchered. By the evening of August 25 the government calls a halt,
      but the mob is now out of control.
      Other towns follow suit. Estimates of the dead vary, with a likely
      total of between 10,000 and 15,000 Huguenots killed. The bridegroom,
      Henry of Navarre, is spared - but he has to declare himself a
      Catholic.
      It is more than three years before Henry escapes from the French
      court, resumes his Protestant faith and leads the Huguenot cause
      against a Catholic league headed by the Guise family. By now the
      stakes have been considerably raised. Catherine's second son, Charles
      IX, dies in 1574. Her third son succeeds him, as Henry III. He is
      childless, and in 1584 his only remaining brother dies. The Protestant
      Henry of Navarre is now heir presumptive to the French throne.
      The last few years of the Valois dynasty are the stuff of
      melodrama. Henry III breaks his alliance with the Catholic faction in
      1588 and has the two leading members of the Guise family assassinated.
      He then joins forces with Henry of Navarre. But the king is himself
      assassinated in 1589. On his deathbed he names his Protestant and very
      distant cousin as his successor - thus bringing the Bourbon dynasty to
      the throne of France.
      It takes Henry of Navarre, now Henry IV, several years to conquer
      his kingdom. Paris, rigorously Catholic and strongly defended, is his
      main obstacle. It only yields to him, in 1594, after he has once again
      declared himself a Catholic - and this time for good.
      It may well be that Henry IV never says the famous remark
      attributed to him on this topic ("Paris vaut bien une messe", Paris is
      well worth a mass), but the sentiment is true to history. France's
      long religious wars are resolved by the simple expedient of making
      light of religion.
      The compromise leaves Henry morally obliged to introduce religious
      toleration. His Edict of Nantes, signed in 1598, gives the Huguenots
      full civil rights, freedom of worship (within certain restrictions)
      and various agreed places which they can fortify for their protection.
      These concessions are violently resented by the Catholic majority.
      They will be steadily chipped away at, until the Edict of Nantes is
      finally revoked in 1685.
      After winning his kingdom in nine years of continuous war, Henry IV
      brings France twelve years of very productive peace. The state's
      finances are put on a sound footing, industry and commerce are
      encouraged (an ambitious scheme for a network of inland waterways
      includes the beginning of the Briare canal) and the army is
      strengthened.
      In his foreign policy Henry takes the same conciliatory approach as
      with the bitterly opposed religious factions in France. His aim is to
      achieve peace on France's borders. To this end he helps to negotiate
      in 1609 the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the United
      Provinces.
      Contrary to this principle, Henry decides to intervene in 1610 in
      a dispute over the inheritance of the duchy of Jülich, close to the
      sensitive border between the United Provinces and the Spanish
      Netherlands. The Habsburg emperor Rudolf II is about to seize the
      duchy, and Henry IV is about to march against him, when Henry is
      assassinated in a Paris street by François Ravaillac (a Catholic whose
      precise motives are unclear).
      Henry is one of France's most popular kings. Four years after his
      death a bronze statue of him on horseback is erected on the Pont Neuf
      - Paris's most famous bridge, completed during Henry's reign in 1604
      (and now the oldest in the city, in spite of its name).