French Huguenots were in contact with the Moriscos in plans against Spain in the 1570s.Divided by faith, Benjamin J. Kaplan p. 311. Around 1575, plans were made for a combined attack of Aragonese Moriscos and Huguenots from Béarn under Henri de Navarre against Spanish Aragon, in agreement with the king of Algiers and the Ottoman Empire, but these projects foundered with the arrival of John of Austria in Aragon and the disarmament of the Moriscos.The Moriscos of Spain: their conversion and expulsion, Henry Charles Lea p. 281Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 L. P. Harvey p. 343. In 1576, a three-pronged fleet from Constantinople was planned to disembark between Murcia and Valencia while the French Huguenots would invade from the north and the Moriscos accomplish their uprising, but the Ottoman fleet failed to arrive.
