The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

44EISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd . nots regarded lier acts as a public declaration
of war against the Protestant religion, and al-
Third ready fortified in their strongholds, and with
Ja^*. recent assistance from Germany and England,
1568-70.
they began their third civil war fo7 religious
rights, (i^68-yo).
On March 13, 1569, the two armies, with
Conde commanding the Huguenots, and the
Duke of Anjou at the head of the Catholics,
met in battle at Jarnac, near La Rochelle.
The Huguenots were defeated, with Conde
wounded and made a prisoner, whom Baron
De Montesquin, captain of Anjou 's guards,
murdered in cold blood, when he recognized
him in camp, sitting helpless and faint
from his wound. The Huguenot army was
then entnisted to Coligny. The Admiral to
encourage the army urged Jean D'Albret,
Queen of Navarre, to give them her son as
a princely leader. She hastened to Cognac
where the army was encamped, and presented
her son, Prince Henry, then in his 16th
year, and Henry, son of the fallen Conde, who
was still younger, as leaders of the cause under
Coligny. Having received reinforcements
from Germany, the army besieged Poitiers,
but was badly defeated in a battle at Moncon-
tour, October 3, 1569, with the loss of 8,000
men; and only the military blunders of Anjou
saved the Huguenot army from ruin and complete
overthrow. The court now thought the
Huguenots in that part of the kingdom annihilated.
But they received means from
England, Switzerland, and Germany, and the
court was surprised in the spring of 1570 to
find them again in arms, crossing the Rhone,
and routing the royalists. The Huguenots,
becoming encouraged by the news of the sue-