And hello and all that salutory greetings, Somewhere recently, and I won't look it up for now, someone mentioned that the HWE topics should cover the time period from Luther onward. Or words similar. Now to me, and I know, I know, folks may wish to jump up and gather around my grand auto de fete for me even suggesting such.. Luther was not a Huguenot. He was a middle of the road, out of the way, Catholic monk.. dabbled in writing and for whatever the reason became some sort of folk hero toward the end of the Reformation. All he ever wanted was for the Pope, and his cronies of the time, to get back to basics and try to be a little more humble. He also thought that doctrine of the time was heading in the wrong direction. Hence he protested..95 theses and all that. It is my thinking that if one wishes to narrow..and I would be against such, indeed I would like to see it expanded to cover the Reformation period in general.. the time period of the HWE to simply Walloons and Huguenot..(Protestante) then maybe it should only go from Zwingli to around the late 1600's ? So.. even though I do fear death by fire.. to say that Luther was a Huguenot , to me at least.. is wrong. Now I will take cover and hide behind a Cathare descendent.. there must be one somewhere. Kind Regards, Peter Leroy

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In so far as what you are saying, the lines were not as clear between groups as some seem to believe. Recently, while working on my husband's definitely "Dutch" Dutch Reformed, I found a relative of mine I thought lost...a brother to my many gr. grandfather's ago, a Pierre desChamps, which the Dutch soon changed to Peter Shamp or Sham.. as one might expect, he married a relative of my husband's.. perhaps under some heading similar to "Descendants of Religious Oppositionists", the Cathers and the Huguenots and those French heritage Swiss who found in Zwingli, a religious leader, we might be able to address them all... Keeping in mind that there are some Huguenot groups that limit membership to descendants of those who left France in a given time period after the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes.. which if strictly applied, would exclude many if not all Walloons from inclusions with Huguenots, as technically speaking they were ruled by the Spaniards and therefore not .... nevermind... perhaps there is a need for an additional group on rootsweb. In any case, I am beginning to smell something of a scorch and recalling remarks of an auto da fé I beleive I'll retreat. I do hope something is found on the Cathares as it could be an interesting and probably active list Elizabeth peter@leroy.ws wrote: And hello and all that salutory greetings, Somewhere recently, and I won't look it up for now, someone mentioned that the HWE topics should cover the time period from Luther onward. Or words similar. Now to me, and I know, I know, folks may wish to jump up and gather around my grand auto de fete for me even suggesting such.. Luther was not a Huguenot. He was a middle of the road, out of the way, Catholic monk.. dabbled in writing and for whatever the reason became some sort of folk hero toward the end of the Reformation. All he ever wanted was for the Pope, and his cronies of the time, to get back to basics and try to be a little more humble. He also thought that doctrine of the time was heading in the wrong direction. Hence he protested..95 theses and all that. It is my thinking that if one wishes to narrow..and I would be against such, indeed I would like to see it expanded to cover the Reformation period in general.. the time period of the HWE to simply Walloons and Huguenot..(Protestante) then maybe it should only go from Zwingli to around the late 1600's ? So.. even though I do fear death by fire.. to say that Luther was a Huguenot , to me at least.. is wrong. Now I will take cover and hide behind a Cathare descendent.. there must be one somewhere. Kind Regards, Peter Leroy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

How could he be, he wasn't French and he couldn't be a Walloon for the same geographical reasons !!!!!!!! Regards Tony Fuller Editor, Huguenot Families