An important source for the historiography of this event is the instructions given to the nuncio Antonio Maria Salviati.
An important source for the historiography of this event is the instructions given to the nuncio Antonio Maria Salviati. Contemporary accounts of this event place much of the blame for it on Albert de Gondi and other Italian members of the court. This event greatly increased the popularity of an anti-monarchical movement called the Monarchomachs. The philosopher Petrus Ramus was killed in this event. This event ended the (*) two-year period of peace following a treaty signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It took place shortly after the marriage of Marguerite of Valois to Henry, King of Navarre, and two days after an assassination attempt on Gaspard de Coligny. For 10 points, name this 1572 massacre of Huguenots ordered by Charles IX and Catherine de Medici.
An important source for the historiography of this event is the instructions given to the nuncio Antonio Maria Salviati.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 