Sentence examples for joined the protestant from inspiring English sources

He soon joined the Protestant lords against the regent, however, in order to help expel the French from Scotland.

The city of Geneva had recently thrown off the authority of the bishop and of the duke of Savoy and had not yet joined the Protestant Swiss Confederation.

He returned to Scotland in 1557 and two years later joined the Protestant lords against the Roman Catholic Mary of Lorraine (Mary of Guise), mother of and queen regent for Mary Stuart.

The son of John Stewart, the 3rd Earl of Atholl in the Stewart line (whom he succeeded in 1542), Atholl was particularly trusted by Mary Stuart; but, after the murder of Mary's husband Lord Darnley in 1567, he joined the Protestant lords against her and, on her abdication, was included in the regent's council for her young son James VI.

Thomas was raised Catholic and briefly attended Conception Seminary College, a Roman Catholic seminary, but had joined the Protestant denomination of his wife after their marriage.

I asked how he came to join the Protestant paramilitaries.

Computer geeks do not spend their days desperately trying to join the Protestant Establishment because people born in 1984 don't know what it is.

Louis III's son Claude (1566 1604) at first fought in the campaigns against the Huguenots under Henry III but then changed sides, joining the Protestant king of Navarre, Henry III, in 1586.

The latter remained unconvinced and did not join the Protestant alliance.

In 1631 Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden occupied Brandenburg, forcing the elector to join the Protestants, but, after the Swedish defeat by an imperial army at Nördlingen (1634), George William withdrew from the conflict.

Afterward he was employed by Francis as a diplomat, at first concerned with the drawing up of the Treaty of Cambrai (1529) between Francis and Charles V. From 1532 to 1536 he was employed principally in uniting the German princes against Charles V. Without joining the Protestants, du Bellay defended them against their opponents.