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 The Wars of Religion 633 Florentine family, claimed the right to conduct the govern- ment for her son until he reached manhood. By this time the Protestants in France had become a power- ful party. They were known as Huguenots^ and accepted the Fig. 219. Fran'Cis II of France This is from a contemporaneous engraving. The boy king, the first husband of Mary Queen of Scots, died when he was only 17 years old religious teachings of their fellow countryman, Calvin. Many The Hugue- of them, including their great leader Coligny, belonged to the ?hefr political nobility. They had a strong support in the king of the litde realm of Navarre, on the southern boundary of France. He 1 The origin of this name is uncertain. aims