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Battle of Coutras
The Battle of Coutras, fought on 20 October 1587, was a major engagement in the French Religious Wars between a Huguenot (Protestant) army under Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France) and a royalist army led by Anne, Duke of Joyeuse. Henry of Navarre was victorious, Joyeuse was killed while attempting to surrender.
Context.
The Wars of Religion between the Catholics and Protestants in France had begun in 1562 and continued intermittently thereafter, with temporary periods of nominal peace that
a "gentilhomme ordinaire" ("gentleman of the bed-chamber") by the King of Navarre, as well as Governor of Mende. In July 1581, he retired in style to Uzès. The date of his death is not known precisely. The Marquis d'Aubais placed it at the start of 1584, but several attest that Merle was still living after the Battle of Coutras, at the end of 1587.
His "Mémoires", incomplete, were edited by one of his companions at arms, Colonel Gondin