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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.
- 2 August 1589 – 14 May 1610
- Jeanne III of Navarre
"Le bon roi" was assassinated on this day in 1610 by a Catholic extremist, and he was buried in the royal chapel at Saint-Denis. There he rested until the French Revolution, when an angry mob...
In France: Henry IV. …Henry IV was assassinated by François Ravaillac, a Catholic fanatic, in May 1610, he had gone a long way toward restoring the monarchy to a position of authority similar to that held by Francis I and Henry II and had reunified a state greatly threatened at his accession from both… Read More. association with Épernon.
Assassination of Henry IV, engraving by Gaspar Bouttats. Ravaillac murdering Henry IV, rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris. In 1609, Ravaillac claimed to have experienced a vision instructing him to convince King Henry IV to convert the Huguenots to Catholicism.
- Regicide
- Tortured and Dismembered
To maintain order, the reigning king, Henry III, ordered the murder of the league's leaders. The plan backfired, however, and led to a general uprising in which the king was assassinated. On August 1, 1589, Henry of Navarre succeeded to the throne, but it would be five years before he fully controlled the kingdom.
Dec 14, 2010 · Henri IV was finally murdered in 1610 by a militant Catholic named François Ravaillac, who stabbed the king in the royal carriage. Henri IV was embalmed and then interred at the Basilica of...
Dec 14, 2010 · After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France's King Henry IV, who was assassinated in 1610 aged 57. The scientific tests helped identify the late...
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