# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-iv-of-france
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:03:31.552Z

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name: "Henry IV of France"
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description: "He switched religions to claim a throne, reportedly declaring \"Paris is well worth a Mass,\" then spent two decades building roads and signing treaties that kept Catholics and Protestants from tearing France apart."
tagline: "King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610 (1553-1610)"
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birthDate: "1553-12-13"
deathDate: "1610-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Henry was baptised Catholic but raised Protestant by his mother, Queen Jeanne III of Navarre, whose throne he inherited in 1572. He survived the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and led Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion until 1589, when he inherited the French crown as a distant cousin of the childless Henry III. The Catholic League refused a Protestant king, so after four years of stalemate Henry converted in 1593 and five years later issued the Edict of Nantes, guaranteeing religious liberties that effectively ended the wars. He regularized state finance, promoted agriculture and trade, began France's first successful American colonization, and built infrastructure — roads, bridges, canals — to bind the country together. On 14 May 1610, a Catholic zealot assassinated him in Paris; his son Louis XIII succeeded him.