Editing French Wars of Religion (section)

=== War in Brittany ===
{{main|Brittany Campaign}}
Meanwhile, [[Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur]], whom Henry&nbsp;III had made [[governor of Brittany]] in 1582, was endeavouring to make himself independent in that province. A leader of the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]], he invoked the hereditary rights of his wife, [[Marie of Luxembourg, Duchess of Penthièvre|Marie de Luxembourg]], who was a descendant of the [[dukes of Brittany]] and heiress of the Blois-Brosse claim to the duchy as well as [[Duchess of Penthièvre]] in Brittany, and organized a government at [[Nantes]]. Proclaiming his son "prince and duke of Brittany", he allied with [[Philip II of Spain|Philip&nbsp;II of Spain]], who sought to place his own daughter, [[infanta]] [[Isabella Clara Eugenia]], on the throne of Brittany. With the aid of the Spanish under [[Juan del Águila]], Mercœur defeated Henry IV's forces under the [[Henry of Bourbon-Montpensier, Duke of Montpensier|Duke of Montpensier]] at the [[Battle of Craon]] in 1592, but the royal troops, reinforced by English contingents, soon recovered the advantage; in September 1594, [[Martin Frobisher]] and [[John Norris (soldier)|John Norris]] with eight warships and 4,000 men [[Siege of Fort Crozon|besieged Fort Crozon, also known as the "Fort of the Lion (El León)"]] near [[Brest, France|Brest]] and captured it on November 7, killing 400 Spaniards including women and children as only 13 survived.<ref>{{cite book
|last1=Fernández Duro
|first1=Cesáreo
|title=Armada Española desde la unión de los reinos de Aragón y Castilla.
|date=1897
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhHdh391DHcC
|volume=III
|pages=86–90
|location=Madrid
|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|last1=Wernham
|first1=R. B.
|title=After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe, 1588–1595
|date=1984
|publisher=Clarendon Press
|pages=533–547
|isbn=978-0198227533}}</ref>