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Huguenot: Quick Facts

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Aaron Bowling game-winning TD run for Huguenot at Manchester • Nov. 7, 2026, 1:28 AM ET (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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Black and white illustration of grieving Huguenots comforting each other indoors as a group of people look anxiously out a window during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France.
François Dubois: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
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Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Michel de L'Hospital, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist, 1566; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
Michel de L’Hospital
French statesman and lawyer
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
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Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
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Henri, duke de Rohan
French duke
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Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
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François de La Noue
Huguenot leader
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François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
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Charles de Bourbon, count de Soissons
French count and soldier
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Benjamin de Rohan, seigneur de Soubise
French Huguenot leader

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