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Nov 5, 2023 · Henry IV (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithet "Good King Henry", was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first French monarch of the House of Bourbon.
Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes ( French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic . While upholding Catholicism as the established religion, and requiring the re ...
Dec 14, 2023 · Henry IV (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France. As a Huguenot, Henry was involved in the Wars of Religion before ascending the throne in 1589.
Jun 8, 2024 · Henry IV ( French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
Henry IV was notorious for his tumultuous and politically complicated love life. Henry IV of France 's wives and mistresses played a significant role in the politics of his reign. Both Henry (1553–1610) and his first wife Margaret of Valois , whom he married in 1572, were repeatedly unfaithful to each other, and the collapse of their marriage led to their estrangement and living apart.
The Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1559–1641),i are the only account of the great design imagined by Henry IV (1553–1610), King of France from 1589 onwards: the confederation of a Christian Europe. This seemed so chimerical to the statesman that he hardly paid any attention the first time the monarch spoke of ‘a ...
By the autumn of 1609, the great canal of Fontainebleau was full, and Henry IV was able to sail with his son on the great body of water and hand the rudder over to the heir apparent. Six months later, on the 14th May 1610, three knife wounds by Ravaillac struck Henry IV in a Paris street adjacent to the Louvre, thrusting the eight-and-a-half-year-old child onto the throne.
