Religion, Wars of. Religion, Wars of, 1562â98, series of civil wars in France, also known as the Huguenot Wars. The immediate issue was the French Protestants' struggle for freedom of worship and the right of establishment (see Huguenots).
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: 1  August Wenzel, who arrived in America in 1777. 2  Philip Wenzel, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1838.  Georg Wenzel, who arrived in Texas in 1844 with his wife, Marg Schnautz, and his children, Ignaz, Regina, Maria Anna, Hein and Conrad.