Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Montcontour (Third Civil War).

Fought October 3, 1569, between the Huguenots, under Henri le Béarnais, and the Catholics, under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal de Tavannes. The Huguenots occupied an untenable position, and at the end of half an hour were utterly routed, and almost exterminated, some 700 only remaining with the colours after the battle.