I had the same thought as Argo about the gold robed guy: Mace w/chained ball.

1453 . . . part of Europe was still busy sorting out their own "ethnic cleansing" issues. The Hundred Years' War between England and France was just coming to a close, the French having succeeded in driving the English out, and conquering those parts of France from which the Plantagenets launched their successful invasion of England in 1066.

Re Huguenots, quite a few of them also ended up in South Africa. They obviously spread far and wide. But when a Protestant became king of France, he converted--with the simple statement: "Paris is worth a mass."

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