| Conflict: | Nègrepelisse massacre (1622) |
| Partof: | the Huguenot rebellions |
| Date: | 10–11 June 1622 |
| Place: | Nègrepelisse |
| Coordinates: | 44.076°N 1.522°W |
| Result: | Royal victory |
| Combatant1: | Kingdom of France |
| Combatant2: | French Huguenot forces |
| Commander1: | Louis XIII |
| Casualties2: | about 800[1] |
The Nègrepelisse massacre was a massacre committed on 10 and 11 June 1622 by the French Royal Army of the King Louis XIII in the Protestant stronghold of Nègrepelisse during the Huguenot rebellions. The taking of the town followed Louis's unsuccessful siege of Montauban.
After a short siege the town was captured by assault, and all the inhabitants that the soldiers encountered were put to the sword, without distinction of age or sex,[2] to a total of about 800. According to one source, "all the women and girls were raped and massacred". The town was then looted and deliberately burned to the ground. This severe treatment was in retaliation for the alleged massacre of a royal regiment left in garrison in the city by the Duke of Mayenne.[3] The king had ordered:
The Huguenot garrison that had attempted to hold out in the town's citadel were obliged to surrender the next day, and all the men were hanged. The anonymous author of a contemporary report celebrating the massacre as a royal victory and a just punishment of rebels remarked that: