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  2. 1 day ago · These conflicts were brutal and devastating, tearing the nation apart. Henry IV, a Protestant who converted to Catholicism to ascend to the French throne, sought to bring peace and stability to his divided country. In 1598, he issued the Edict of Nantes, a landmark decree that granted substantial religious freedoms to the Huguenots.

  3. 1 day ago · The wars only concluded when Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, promising official toleration of the Protestant minority, but under highly restricted conditions.

  4. 3 days ago · The narrative really starts with the Reformation, and the persecution of the Protestants in France prior to their precarious access to limited rights under Henri IV and his Edict of Nantes of 1598 (‘A special case? London’s French Protestants’, by Elizabeth Randall).

  5. 15 hours ago · WORCESTER. Inquisition. Worcester. 3 Feb. 1412. He held the manor of Wyre Piddle and Little Comberton for life by the grant of Thomas de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, father of Richard the present earl, rendering £6 by equal parts at Easter and Michaelmas, with reversion to the earl.

  6. 2 days ago · The revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) led to a mass emigration of Huguenots, who had contributed greatly both to the economy and to the navy, but even so Normandy soon recovered its prosperity in the 18th century.

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  7. 5 days ago · Northampton, and his in-house antiquarian, Sir Robert Cotton, had been gathering documentation and reviewing remedies for the problem since 1609, when Henry IV of France had highlighted the whole problem by issuing his own anti-duelling edict.

  8. 3 days ago · Henri IV of France, for example, exploited the ro yal touch to demonstrate his legitimacy, but the main thrust of his policy and public statements was to associate the crown with rationality, the preservation of order, and national hostility to Spain.

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