She at first adopted a conciliatory policy towards the Huguenots (French Protestants), but in 1562 civil war broke out in France, marking the beginning of the series of conflicts which became ...

Now France was in civil war it was preoccupied ... Queen of Scots on the throne and Elizabeth off. The Dutch Revolt Protestants in the Netherlands began a revolt against Spanish rule in 1572.

Of these, possibly about 20 per cent were non-Roman Catholics, which would put the number of southern Protestants at about 14,000. My uncle and godfather, Michael d’Alton, of Sandycove ...