Three Henrys News Today

Henry IV granted religious freedom to Protestants by issuing the Edict of Nantes during his reign as king of France, from 1589 to 1610.

In the late-16th century, France was torn apart by a series of violent religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, with several noble families competing for mastery over the kingdom’s salvation. Danny Bird explores the decades-long wars and the effects it had on a post-Reformation France