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During the Renaissance, the Roman Catholic Church was again fiercely attacked but this time by Lutheran Heretics and all this started just because an obscure monk named Martin Luther was at odds with the Pope, so he used inflammatory speeches filled with exagerated tales & lies to fiercely attack the Papacy, the Blessed Virgin, the Church & all Roman Catholicism, even the appostles. Soon enough both Catholics & Protestants went to war. The Siege & Battle of Craon 1592 was one such engagement during the French War of Religion 1562--1598, also part of the Anglo-Spanish war 1585-1604, where Roman Catholics of Spanish Crown & the Holy League fought savagely against the rising French, English & German Protestants & followers of the Heretic monk Martin Luther & put them to flight. In a series of land battles, sieges & naval battles, much blood between brothers & neighbours was spilt because of this heteric monk. The Battle of Craon took place between 21--24 May 1592, between the French Royal army under the Duke of Montpensier and François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, reinforced by English contingents, against the Catholic League of France during the War of the Three Henrys, in the context of the French Wars of Religion. Craon was besieged by the army of Henry of Navarre, but the defenders, supported by a Catholic relief force recruited by Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, resisted. At the end, Craon was liberated by the Spaniards under Don Juan del Águila, who defeated the Anglo-French besiegers. The commander of the Catholic League of France in the region, the Duke of Mercœur, Governor of Brittany, ordered his chief lieutenant, Urbain de Laval Boisdauphin, to strengthen Craon. In 1590, Mercœur rebelled against the ascension to the throne of France of Henry of Navarre and becomes the head of the Catholic League of Brittany, aiming to return to restore the autonomy of the former Duchy, and proclaimed protector of the Catholic Church in the region of Brittany. The Duke of Mercœur had the support of the Catholic King, Philip II of Spain, who sent him 7,000 Spanish soldiers who landed at Blavet (Port Louis) under the command of Don Juan del Águila. On 8 February 1592, Henry of Navarre decided to take the city of Craon. His cousins, the Duke of Montpensier and François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, secretly gathered together in Laval to organise the attack. Montpensier arrived with his army on 14 April 1592, aided by 1,200 English troops and 800 German mercenaries, and laid siege to the town. Then on 20 May 1592, Mercœur and Sablé arrived with their armies to defend Craon. The defense of the city of Craon by the Catholic troops against the French troops of Montpensier and Conti was heroic. On May 22, 1592, the Spanish-Catholic army reached Craon under Mercœur and Juan del Águila. The Spanish-Catholic troops charged against the left flank, taking by surprise the Anglo-French besiegers. At the same time the besieged angrily attacked the right flank, finally achieving a brilliant victory. Under cover of night, Montpensier retired to Laval and Rennes. The Spaniards captured all the artillery, ammunition carts, flags, equipment and supplies from the enemy. The English soldiers captured, were not given quarter, and were all executed, in retaliation for the cruelty received from the English in the wrecks of the Spanish Armada. Some 1,500 Protestants lay dead at Craon, all their guns & hundreds of pows were captured compared to the small loss of the Catholics.