[440] C. S. P. For., No. 304, §4, July 23, 1561.
[441] K. 1,495, No.47, June 19, 1561. Cf. Despatches of Suriano (Huguenot Society), October 1. Upon these insurrections in the south, see D’Aubigné, I, 322-26; De Thou, II, 235 ff. (ed. 1740); Mém. de Condé, III, 636; Long, La réforme et les guerres de religion en Dauphiné; Pierre Gilles, Hist. ecclés. des églises réformées vaudoises, chap. xxii; Hist. du Languedoc, V, 211.
[442] “Aulx petites villes, elles se sont ralliez les unes avec les autres en ung faict, ung monopole et une ligue ensemble.”—Mémoires-journaux du duc de Guise (M. & P., sér. I, VI, 467, col. 2); Letter of Joyeuse to the constable; duplicate to the duke of Guise (September 16, 1561). For the work of this league see pp. 468-71. Guillaume, vicomte de Joyeuse; was lieutenant to the governor of Languedoc and later a marshal of France.
[443] These princes were Wolfgang William, duke of Deuxponts; William, landgrave of Hesse; Frederick the Pious, count palatine of the Rhine (D’Aubigné, I, 333, 334; Le Laboureur, I, 673). The leading Protestant princes of Germany were Augustus, elector of Saxony; Joachim II, margrave of Brandenburg, John Frederick duke of Saxony; Christopher, duke of Württemberg; Wolfgang William, duke of Deuxponts (Zweibrücken); John Albert, duke of Mecklenberg; John the Elder, duke of Holstein; Joachim Ernest, prince of Anhalt, and Charles, margrave of Baden. These are enumerated in a letter of Hotman, December 31, 1560. See Mém. de l’Acad. des sc. moral. et polit., CIV, 653, and Bulletin de la soc. prot. franç., 1860.
[444] Mém. de l’Acad. des sc. moral. et polit., CIV (1877), 66; C. S. P. For., No. 399, August 12, 1561.
[445] C. S. P. For., No. 319, July 15, 1561, from Strasburg. Hotman visited the elector palatine at Germersheim; the landgrave of Hesse at Cassel; the elector of Saxony at Leipsic, whence he went to Stuttgart. He did not see the duke of Württemberg in person, and was compelled to write to him instead. (See his letter, September 27, 1561, in Mém. de l’Acad des sc. moral. et polit., CIV, 660.) Thence he went to Heidelberg, from which point he wrote a second letter to the duke of Württemberg, and one to the duke of Deuxponts.
[446] La Place, 121, 122; C. S. P. Ven., No. 249; Arch. nat., K. 1,495, folio 47, Chantonnay to Philip II, June 19, 1561.
[447] C. S. P. For., No. 736, November 26, 1561.
[448] Chantonnay’s correspondence shows that agents of the duke of Guise were busy in Germany as early as October, 1561, K. 1,494, No. 105, October 28, 1561. Cf. Hubert Languet, Epist. secr., II, 142, 159, 202; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, I, 216-18, 226-52; Bulletin de la soc. de l’histoire du prot. français, XXIV.
[449] C. S. P. For., No. 724, §2, December 14, 1561.