Huguenots

Historical religious group of French Protestants

The Huguenots ( HEW-gə-nots, UK also -⁠nohz; French: [yɡ(ə)no]) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term was in common use by around 1550 and may be derived from the name of burgomaster Besançon Hugues, who defended Geneva from Catholic Savoy but then let it fall to Protestantism. Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation.

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