Henri Iv Of France

Author : Vincent J. Pitts
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801890276
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri IV of France written by Vincent J. Pitts and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France’s most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by religious civil war and political and economic instability. By the end of his reign in 1610 he had pacified his warring country, restored its prosperity, and reclaimed France’s place as a leading power in Europe. Pitts draws upon the rich scholarship of recent decades to tell the captivating story of this pivotal French king. From boyhood, Henri was destined to be leader and protector of the Huguenot movement in France. He served as chief of the Calvinist party and fought for the Huguenot forces in the bloody Wars of Religion before an extraordinary sequence of dynastic mishaps left the Protestant warlord next in line for the French crown. Henri was forced to renounce his faith in support of his claim to the Catholic throne and to unite his deeply divided country. A master of political maneuvering, Henri restored order to a country in the throes of great religious, political, and economic upheaval. He was assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot. Vincent Pitts expertly recounts this history and skillfully untangles its complex set of personalities and events. Pitts engages the vast amount of literature relating to the king himself as well as the large body of recent scholarship on France during this time. The result is a fascinating biography of a French king and a comprehensive history of sixteenth-century France.

Author : David Buisseret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry IV written by David Buisseret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Politics Web Guide presents a biographical sketch of English King Henry I (1068 or 1069-1135) as part of the section on English heads of state from 924 to 1649. Henry I conquered Normandy and centralized the administration of England and Normandy.

Author : Martha Walker Freer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.Q8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Reign of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre written by Martha Walker Freer and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Greengrass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317896300
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France in the Age of Henri IV written by Mark Greengrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated.

Author : Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conversion of Henri IV written by Michael Wolfe and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paris is worth a Mass". So said Henri IV on his conversion to Catholicism, according to cynics, and the motives behind the act have been the stuff of history ever since. The Conversion of Henri IV reclaims the religious significance of this momentous event in the development of the French monarchy and early modern political culture. Michael Wolfe offers an in-depth account of the political, diplomatic, and theological dimensions of the 1593 conversion of the Protestant Henri de Navarre. Where others have emphasized the ideological aspects of the conflict sparked by the conversion, Wolfe situates the controversy within contemporary ideas about confessional change and practice, as well as the historical traditions that defined what it meant to be French. Using pamphlets, sermons, letters, and memoranda, he traces the conversion crisis as it unfolded in the minds of the king's subjects and as it affected their loyalties and actions during the last religious wars. In this analysis, the public response to Henri IV's conversion reveals a great deal about contemporary notions of personal piety and the Church, political ideals and the state, as well as social identity and obligations. Joining the history of mentalite with that of political and religious behavior, Wolfe also pays close attention to the impact of military and political developments. This approach helps explain the fundamental role of Henri IV's conversion in the establishment and acceptance of Bourbon absolutism in the last two centuries of the ancien regime. While not denying the political importance of Henri IV's conversion, this book underscores the profound religious implications of the event. It puts religion back into theWars of Religion and thereby enhances our understanding of the rise of the early modern French state.

Author : Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry IV, King of France)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry IV, King of France) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Laurent PRAULT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L'esprit d'Henri IV. Anecdotes of Henry IV. of France, shewing the great encouragement he gave to literature. With several of his letters, never before published. Translated from the French of L. L. Prault written by Louis Laurent PRAULT and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Memoirs of Henri IV written by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicola Mary Sutherland
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion written by Nicola Mary Sutherland and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutherland (retired, history, U. of London, Royal Holloway, UK) has written an impressively complete account of the complex history of religious issues during the reign of Henry IV of France. The chapters, which are organized around political events and issues, detail the intrigue and conflict between Catholic and Protestant in France before and after Henry is made king. In painstaking detail, the volumes discuss the Huguenots, the Catholic League, the role of the popes, the Civil War, Henry's conversion and the problems that resulted, and his rule of absolutism. The ceremony of Henry's conversion and Henry's relationship with Rome receive special attention. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Thistle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781909609082
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Bourbon written by Desmond Seward and published by Thistle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the Bourbon dynasty, Henry IV, who ruled France from 1589 to 1610, is the most romantic of French kings. Very different from his grandson Louis XIV, he was a hard-fighting, hard swearing Southerner, who fought over 200 battles and had 60 (recorded) mistresses* After surviving his predecessor's murderous court, he rebuilt a France ruined by thirty years of war between Catholics and Protestants, enabling her to become the most powerful country in Europe. A man of enormous charm and humanity, he was famous for promising that every French peasant was going to have a chicken in the pot in Sundays. Even Napoleon admired him, always keeping a statue of him nearby.