1569 in France
Events from the year 1569 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- September - A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers.
- October 3 - Battle of Moncountour: The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.
- The trade compact of 1536 is renewed, exempting French merchants from Ottoman law and allowing them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports.
Births
- October 13 –Claude de Bullion, French politician who served as minister of Finance
- December 22 – Étienne Martellange, architect
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- Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, French politician
- Étienne Binet, Jesuit author
Deaths
- March 13 - Louis, Prince of Condé, French Protestant general
- May 27 – François de Coligny d'Andelot, French general
- Pierre-Olivier Malherbe, French explorer