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Aug 31, 2022 · Henry III was King of France from 1575 until 1589. Born in 1551, he was the fourth son of the powerful Italian noblewoman Catherine de Medici and King Henry II , who died from a jousting injury.
Catholicism (1593–1610) Signature. 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.
Jan 27, 2021 · Petite Portrait of Henry III, King Who Challenged Sexual Norms in 16th-Century France, Discovered. Art dealer Philip Mould purchased the miniature “sight unseen” during lockdown.
The Assassination of Henry III of France. 'For sale, our tyrant King! Five shillings and you can string him up'. Mark Greengrass probes the motives behind and reaction to the murder of France's last Valois monarch. What a contrast between the way historians have treated the two great political assassinations of French history! That of the first ...
Apr 4, 2014 · Portrait of Henry Valois, 1768-1771 King Henry III of France, who reigned from 1574 to 1589, is not well known in the English-speaking world. However, in November 1989, Mark Greengrass evoked vividly in History Today the king’s assassination four centuries earlier. As he pointed out, Henry was the first king of France to suffer such a fate.
Henry III (1551–1589), the third son of Henry II (1519–1559) and Catherine de Médicis (1519–1589), succeeded his brother Charles IX as king of France in 1574. Indolent, vicious, and corrupt, he was under the influence of his mother and before his accession had helped her organize the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day.
Mar 27, 2024 · Henry II (born March 31, 1519, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, France—died July 10, 1559, Paris) was the king of France from 1547 to 1559, a competent administrator who was also a vigorous suppressor of Protestants within his kingdom. The second son of Francis I and Claude of France, Henry was sent with his brother Francis, the dauphin, as ...
