Complex sentence: The Bourbons, led by the prince of Condé, and proclaiming that they were liberating the king and regent from "evil" councillors, organised a kind of protectorate over the Protestant churches and began to seize and garrison strategic towns along the Loire.
Split into simpler sentences: The Bourbons, led by the prince of Condé and proclaiming that they were liberating the king and regent from "evil" councillors, organised a kind of protectorate over the Protestant churches. They began to seize and garrison strategic towns along the Loire.