For the first part of the war , the royalists and the Catholic League were uneasy allies against their common enemy , the Huguenots .

It was the first victory Getting won by the Huguenots in the battlefield Hostile_encounter .

The French Wars of Religion were a prolonged Change_event_time period of war Hostile_encounter and popular unrest Hostile_encounter between Catholics and Huguenots ( Reformed/Calvinist Protestants ) in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598 .

In contrast to the previous hardline policies of Henri II and his father Francis I , they began Process_start introducing gradual concessions to Huguenots .

He issued the Edict of Nantes , which granted Giving Huguenots substantial rights and freedoms though this did not end Catholic hostility towards them or towards him , personally .