Henry III of France
King of France from 1574 to 1589 (1551-1589)
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Lived 1551–1589, aged 38France
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The last Valois king of France, murdered by a fanatic after ordering his own rival's assassination — caught between Catholic extremists, Protestant claimants, and a kingdom tearing itself apart over religion and succession.
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Born Henri Alexandre Édouard on 19 September 1551, the fourth son of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, he wasn't meant for the French throne. At 22 he was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1573, refused to sign the Henrician Articles guaranteeing noble election rights, then bolted for France in 1574 when his brother Charles IX died without an heir. He inherited a country shredded by the Wars of Religion: the Catholic League backed by Spain, the Protestant Huguenots by England, and the Malcontents led by his own brother Francis. Henry argued for a strong, centralised, relig…
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