Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:27:54 AM
No.17851261
>>17851148
Not under my wQtch
>>17851248
Not really. One can argue that the expulsion of the huguenots who were generally talented people was one of the reasons of the decline of France post Louis XIV.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 8:07:51 PM
No.17838680
He (Philip II) no longer had any qualms about intervening in the internal affairs of his neighbouring country. Spain therefore supported the League, paid subsidies to certain nobles (the Dukes of Guise and Mayenne, the House of Lorraine, etc.) and maintained spies. In 1576, the Joinville Agreement was signed with the Guises. From the end of 1581, Henri de Guise appeared as a secret agent, with the nickname of Hercules, in the correspondence of Spanish diplomats: he provided political information and was paid for his services - ten thousand ecus in September 1582. For Spain, the aim was not only to protect Catholicism in France, but also and above all to prevent the Calvinists from helping the Flemish rebels. In June 1584, the death of the Duke of Anjou, heir to the throne, worried Spain. As King Henri III had no children, his legitimate successor became Henri of Navarre, leader of the Protestant party. France was once again torn apart by civil war, and each side sought allies abroad. Henri de Navarre counted on the support of the German Protestants249 and the Queen of England. The League drew a little closer to Spain. For his part, Philip II did not forgive Henry III for supporting the Prior of Crato in the matter of the Portuguese succession. He therefore accepted the Duke's offer of help in eliminating the Bourbons from the succession to the French throne.
A meeting was held in Paris on 31 December 1584 between the Guises and the new Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, who had just been expelled from England. Very active, it was he who organised the Spanish party in France; in the name of Philip II, he offered the Duc de Guise fifty thousand ecus a month on condition that Cambrai returned to Spain and that France gave guarantees for Flanders; a Spanish garrison, twelve thousand strong, was established in Paris where the League was very popular.
