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| | Henri IV |
 | | Henri IV, King of France, the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, head of the younger branch of the Bourbons, descendant of Robert of Clermont, sixth son of St. Louis and of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, was born at Pau (Basses Pyrénées) on the 14th of December 1553. |
 | | During the third war of religion in France (1568-70) he was taken by his mother to Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the Protestant forces since the death of Louis I, prince of Condé, at Jarnac, and distinguished himself at the battle of Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy in 1569. |
 | | By Marie de Medici he had Louis, later Louis XIII; Gaston, Duke of Orleans; Elizabeth, who married Philip IV of Spain; Christine, Duchess of Savoy; and Henrietta, wife of King Charles I of England. |
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