Catholic League in France
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The Catholic League in France was a powerful late 16th-century ultra-Catholic political and military alliance that sought to prevent Protestant succession and dominated French politics during the Wars of Religion.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1247435 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Catholic League in France Context triple: [Clement VIII, supported, Catholic League in France]
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Catholic League (Holy Roman Empire)
The Catholic League (Holy Roman Empire) was a coalition of Catholic states formed in the early 17th century to defend Catholic interests and counter Protestant influence within the Holy Roman Empire, playing a major role in the conflicts that led to the Thirty Years' War.
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Catholic League
The Catholic League was a powerful alliance of Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire that fought to defend and advance Catholic interests during the early phases of the Thirty Years' War.
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Benedictine Confederation
The Benedictine Confederation is the international union that loosely links together the autonomous Benedictine monasteries and congregations worldwide under a common spiritual and organizational framework.
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Catholic Church in France
The Catholic Church in France is the national presence of the Roman Catholic Church, historically influential in French politics, culture, and society, and a central actor in major events such as the Dreyfus affair and the struggle over laïcité (secularism).
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Old Catholic Church of France
The Old Catholic Church of France is a Christian denomination within the Old Catholic movement, maintaining Catholic liturgy and sacraments while rejecting papal infallibility and emphasizing synodality and national church autonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Catholic League in France Target entity description: The Catholic League in France was a powerful late 16th-century ultra-Catholic political and military alliance that sought to prevent Protestant succession and dominated French politics during the Wars of Religion.
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A.
Catholic League (Holy Roman Empire)
The Catholic League (Holy Roman Empire) was a coalition of Catholic states formed in the early 17th century to defend Catholic interests and counter Protestant influence within the Holy Roman Empire, playing a major role in the conflicts that led to the Thirty Years' War.
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B.
Catholic League
The Catholic League was a powerful alliance of Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire that fought to defend and advance Catholic interests during the early phases of the Thirty Years' War.
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C.
Benedictine Confederation
The Benedictine Confederation is the international union that loosely links together the autonomous Benedictine monasteries and congregations worldwide under a common spiritual and organizational framework.
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Catholic Church in France
The Catholic Church in France is the national presence of the Roman Catholic Church, historically influential in French politics, culture, and society, and a central actor in major events such as the Dreyfus affair and the struggle over laïcité (secularism).
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E.
Old Catholic Church of France
The Old Catholic Church of France is a Christian denomination within the Old Catholic movement, maintaining Catholic liturgy and sacraments while rejecting papal infallibility and emphasizing synodality and national church autonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic league
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Catholic organization ⓘ military alliance ⓘ political alliance ⓘ religious league ⓘ |
| activeDuring | French Wars of Religion ⓘ |
| activeIn | France ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Paris ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| dissolved | early 17th century ⓘ |
| endCause |
conversion of Henry of Navarre to Catholicism
ⓘ
political reconciliation under Henry IV ⓘ |
| goal |
defend and promote Roman Catholicism in France
ⓘ
exclude Henry of Navarre from the succession ⓘ prevent Protestant succession to the French throne ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Holy League (France)
ⓘ
La Sainte Ligue ⓘ |
| headquarters | Paris ⓘ |
| ideology | ultra-Catholicism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Counter-Reformation ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Day of the Barricades in Paris in 1588 ⓘ |
| leader |
Duke of Mayenne
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surface form:
Charles, Duke of Mayenne
Henry I, Duke of Guise ⓘ |
| notableMember |
House of Guise
ⓘ
Parisian Catholic clergy ⓘ Parisian militant confraternities ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Henry III of France
ⓘ
Henry IV of France ⓘ
surface form:
Henry of Navarre
Politiques ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Huguenots
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ |
| partOf | French Wars of Religion ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | far-right (early modern confessional politics) ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| significantEvent |
Day of the Barricades
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Edict of Nantes ⓘ War of the Three Henrys ⓘ assassination of Henry I, Duke of Guise ⓘ assassination of King Henry III of France ⓘ formation in 1576 after the Peace of Monsieur ⓘ renewal in 1584 after the death of Francis, Duke of Anjou ⓘ Siege of Paris (1590) ⓘ
surface form:
siege of Paris (1590)
|
| startTime | 1576 ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Papal States
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Philip II of Spain ⓘ Spanish monarchy ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Monarchy
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| usedMethod |
military campaigns
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political pressure on the monarchy ⓘ urban insurrection ⓘ |
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Subject: Catholic League in France Description of subject: The Catholic League in France was a powerful late 16th-century ultra-Catholic political and military alliance that sought to prevent Protestant succession and dominated French politics during the Wars of Religion.
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