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	Henry III of France - LoveToKnow 1911
		and Catherine de' Medici, was born at Fontainebleau on the 19th of September 1551, and succeeded to the throne of France on the death of his brother Charles IX.
		Henry won, under the direction of Marshal de Tavannes, two brilliant victories at Jarnac and Moncontour (1569).
		After the "day of the barricades" (the 12th of May 1588), the king, perceiving that his influence was lost, resolved to rid himself of Guise by assassination; and on the 23rd of December 1588 his faithful bodyguard, the "forty-five," carried out his design at the château of Blois.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Henry_III_of_France (561 words)

	Henry III of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry III (French: Henri III) (September 19, 1551 – August 2, 1589), born Alexandre-Édouard, was a member of the Valois Dynasty, King of France from May 30, 1574 until his death.
		Henri was born at the Royal Château of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, fourth son of King Henri II and Catherine de Medici, grandson of François I and Claude de France, and brother of François II and Charles IX of France.
		Henri III was interred at the Saint Denis Basilica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_III_of_France (790 words)

	Henry III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry III of Germany (later Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor)
		Henry III of Navarre (later Henry IV of France)
		Henry III, Duke of Saxony ("Henry the Lion")
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_III (113 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Henry III of France (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Valois Dynasty succeeded the Capetian Dynasty as rulers of France from 1328-1589.
		Henri was born Edouard-Alexandre at the Royal Château of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, the fourth son of King Henri II and Catherine de Medici.
		Henry IV was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-III-of-France (4325 words)

	Henry III, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The League was revived by Henri de Guise, however, when the death (1584) of the king’s brother, Francis, duke of Alençon, made the Protestant Henry of Navarre the legal heir to the French throne.
		De Guise forced Henry III to issue an edict suppressing Protestantism and excluding Henry of Navarre from the throne.
		However, Henry III procured the assassination of de Guise and his brother Louis in the hope of quelling the rebellion, but his action only further provoked the Catholics.
	www.bartleby.com /65/he/Henry3Fr.html (393 words)

	chronological table
		Birth of Henry of Navarre at the castle of Pau in Béarn.
		Henry III of France refuses the sovereignty of the Netherlands.
		Coronation of Henry of Navarre as Henry IV at Cathedral of Chartres.
	www.bama.ua.edu /~gderoche/henriiv/tablech.htm (693 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Henry III, the first monarch to be crowned in his minority, inherited the throne at age nine.
		Henry's acquiescence to the demands of Rome initiated a backlash of protest from his subjects: laymen were denied opportunity to be nominated for vacant ecclesiastical offices and clergymen lost any chance of advancement.
		Henry was forced to agree to the Provisions of Oxford, a document placing the barons in virtual control of the realm.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon29.html (910 words)

	Henry III on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HENRY III [Henry III] 1551-89, king of France (1574-89); son of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.
		Henry III: Nicholas Vincent reviews the career of the king whose long reign was overshadowed by the rivalries of his nobles, and who is primarily remembered for his piety and his building activity.
		Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Henry IIIKing Henry III of France was stabbed to death in 1589 by a Jacobin friar, culminating the end of an infamously unstable and innoble reign.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/henry3f1r.asp (1099 words)

	ipedia.com: Henry III of France Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry III was King of Poland and King of France from 1574 to 1589.
		Henri was born Edouard-Alexandre at the Royal Château of Fontainebleau;, Seine-et-Marne, the son of King Henri II and Catherine...
		Henry III (French Henri III, Polish Henryk Walezy) (September 19 1551 - August 2, 1589) was King of Poland and King of France from 1574 to 1589.
	www.ipedia.com /henry_iii_of_france.html (642 words)

	France 2
		Henry I (of France) (circa 1008-60), king of France (1031-60), son of King Robert II and grandson of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty.
		Henry was succeeded by his son Philip I. Henry II (of France) (1519-59), king of France (1547-59), second son of King Francis I, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
		Valois, dynasty that occupied the throne of France from 1328to 1589.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/france_2.htm (3903 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 18
		NOTES: Marie was Heny IV of France's 2nd wife; Marie served as regent to her son from 1610-17.
		Frederick endeavored to establish a court modeled on that of Louis XIV of France.
		The reorganization in 1487 of the Star Chamber was one of several means by which Henry strengthened the royal power over the nobles.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r18.html (769 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry IV
		Henry of Bourbon appealed to France, through his letters to the clergy and the nobility (1 January, 1586); he attempted to gain the support of the Protestant princes of Germany, and resolved to try the fortune of arms.
		Henry's foreign policy consisted in preserving peace to allow France time to strengthen her finances and her army; he negotiated with the Low Countries against Spain, and with the Protestant princes of Germany against the empire, but without going the length of open hostilities.
		Henry IV, however, contributed towards it, owing to the influence of Père Coton, by favouring the work of the Jesuits, who, although they had been banished by a decree of the Parlement of Paris, were left undisturbed in the districts under the jurisdiction of the Parlements of Bordeaux and Toulouse.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07225a.htm (1873 words)

	Catherine de Medici - Simple English Wikipedia
		Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was the wife of Henry II of France, and the mother of three kings of France: Francis II of France, Charles IX of France and Henry III of France.
		She was the daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici and was born in Florence, in Italy.
		She was married to Henry II of France when she was 14 years old.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_de_Medici (105 words)

	HWC, Henry III (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry, like Catherine, tried to steer his way between the powerful Guises and the now-vengeful Huguenots, led by Henry of Navarre.
		And, like the queen mother, Henry resented the influence of the newly-formed Catholic League, which was led by the Guises and financed by the Spanish.
		Early in 1589, though Henry III was himself assassinated by a friar.
	history.boisestate.edu /WESTCIV/reformat/france06.htm (286 words)

	Henri IV (1553-1610) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry de Bourbon-Navarre was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke de Vendôme, and Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre from 1555.
		On the death of Henry III's brother, François, Duke d'Anjou, in 1584, Henry de Bourbon-Navarre became the heir presumptive to the throne of France.
		Henry won victories at Arques in 1589 and Ivry in 1590 and mounted unsuccessful sieges of Paris in 1590 and of Rouen in 1591–92.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Henri-IV/Henri-IV.html (2530 words)

	Wikinfo \| 1589 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rebellion of the Catholic League against King Henry III of France, in revenge for his murder of Duke Henry of Guise.
		August 2 - Henry III of France is murdered by a fanatical Catholic monk.
		November 1 - Henry IV of France is repulsed in an attempt to capture Paris from the Catholic League
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1589 (301 words)

	FOIX - LoveToKnow Article on FOIX (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the I7th and 18th centuries Foix formed one of the thirty-three governments of France, and in 1790 it was incorporated in the department of Arige.
		Living on the borders of France, having constant intercourse with Navarre, and in frequent communication with England, they were in a position peculiarly favorable to an assertion of independence, and acted rather as the equals than as the dependents of the kings of France.
		Like his father he assisted France in her struggle against England, being entrusted with the defence of the frontiers of Gascony; but when the French king, John II., showed a marked preference for the count of Armagnac, Gaston left his service and went to fight against the heathen in Prussia.
	21.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOIX.htm (3827 words)

	Henry III of France - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry III (French: Henri III) (September 19 1551 – August 2, 1589), born Alexandre-Édouard, was a member of the Valois Dynasty, King of France from May 30, 1574 until his death.
		Shortly afterwards, upon the death of his brother Charles IX, Henri fled Poland to return to France, where he was crowned King in 1575 at Reims Cathedral.
		Although he married Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont (February 13, 1575) and expected to produce an heir, the transvestite Henri III was not highly respected by citizens or nobility as he paraded about in women's clothes, accompanied by youthful male attendants referred to as his mignons (darlings).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Henry_III_of_France (827 words)

	1588
		Duke Henry of Guise[?] seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee.
		December 23 - Henry III of France strikes his ultra-Catholic enemies, having the Duke of Guise[?] and his brother, Cardinal Louis of Guise[?], killed, and holding the Cardinal de Bourbon[?] a prisoner.
		December 23 - Duke Henry of Guise[?], leader of the Catholic League[?] in France.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/15/1588.html (340 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Plantagenets > Henry III
		Richard II Henry III - gilt-bronze tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey; the effigy was commissioned from William Torel in 1291
		Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the king's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
		However, Henry escaped, joined forces with the lords of the Marches (on the Welsh border), and finally defeated and killed de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page59.asp (230 words)

	HENRY III. - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY III.
		Henry won, under the direction of Marshal de Tavannes, two brilliant victories at Jarnac and Moncontour (I 569).
		After the day of the barricades, (the 12th of May 1588), the king, perceiving that his influence was lost, resolved to rid himself of Guise by assassination; and on the 23rd of December 5588 his faithful bodyguard, the forty-five, carried out his design at the chateau of Blois.
		was investing Paris with Henry of Navarre, Jacques Clement, a Dominican friar, was introduced into his presence on false letters of recommendation, and plunged a knife into the lower part of his body.
	1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENRY_III_.htm (560 words)

	elizaadams
		The basis of Mary Stuart's claim from this point on was that she was the one descendent of Henry VII untainted by either illegitimacy or heresy.
		Elizabeth's suspicion of Henry in turn justified her assistance to various French rebels in the winter of 1575-76 in a campaign that forced the King to grant substantial concessions to the Huguenots in the treaty of Beaulieu.
		Henry IV may have converted and then made a separate peace with Philip II in 1598, but he remained an ally, and Elizabeth strengthened her moral stature by not abandoning the Dutch.
	www.geocities.com /queenswoman/elizaadams.html (3788 words)

	French Wars of Religion
		All of France was laid waste to and agriculture was virtually wiped out as citizens of the country underwent a living nightmare of constant destruction and massacres of entire villages.
		The power of the Catholic League was such that King Henri III of France cancelled the treaty and as a result peace lasted only a few months before the civil war continued.
		Henri II (1519-1559), a member of the Valois Dynasty, was King of France from 1547 to 1559.
	faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/french_wars_of_religion.htm (1490 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henry III, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Henry III, king of France, French History, Biographies
		Henry III 1551–89, king of France (1574–89); son of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.
		The League was revived by Henri de Guise, however, when the death (1584) of the king's brother, Francis, duke of AlenCon, made the Protestant Henry of Navarre the legal heir to the French throne.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Henry3Fr.html (470 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III
		One of the greatest popes of the Middle Ages, son of Count Trasimund of Segni and nephew of Clement III, born 1160 or 1161 at Anagni, and died 16 June, 1216, at Perugia.
		During the pontificate of Celestine III (1191-1198), a member of the House of the Orsini, enemies of the counts of Segni, he lived in retirement, probably at Anagni, devoting himself chiefly to meditation and literary pursuits.
		The election was repeated in presence of a representative of the pope and of Philip Augustus of France at the Diet of Frankfort, 2 December, 1212.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08013a.htm (4264 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Huguenot Wars
		Although baptized a Roman Catholic, Henry was brought up as a Calvinist by his strong-minded mother, a leader of the French Protestant (Huguenot)...
		Charles IX (of France) (1550-1574), king of France (1560-1574), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
		Henry was born at Fontainebleau on September 19, 1551, the third son of Henry II and Catherine de Médicis.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Huguenot+Wars (240 words)

	Henry III (of France)
		He fought both the Huguenots (headed by his successor, Henry of Navarre) and the Catholic League (headed by the third Duke of Guise).
		Guise expelled Henry from Paris in 1588 but was assassinated.
		Henry allied with the Huguenots under Henry of Navarre to besiege the city, but was assassinated by a monk.
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