Henry III on his deathbed designating Henri de Navarre as his successor in 1589.

It changed hands several times until 1589 when the Protestant King Henri IV ( of France and Navarre ) gave the castle to Duplessis-Mornay.

# 1589 Henry III of France by Jacques ClémentOne of the assistants of Charles Henri Sanson | Sanson shows the head of Louis XVI.

King Henry III of France ( 1551 – 1589 ) was christened Edouard Alexandre in 1551, but at confirmation received the name Henri, by which he afterwards reigned.

In 1589 after the murder of Henri III he was one of the two princes of the blood who signed the declaration recognising Henri IV as king, and continued to support him even though he himself was mentioned as a candidate for the throne upon the death of Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon in 1590.

* Henri de Valois, Duke of Anjou ( 1551 – 1589 ), younger brother of Francis II and Charles IX, was known as Monsieur during the reign of Charles IX.

During the Wars of Religion, when he was forced to flee Paris with Henri III in 1589 and could not return until 18 April 1594, he lost a large part of his books and manuscripts to the soldiers of the duc de Mayenne.

The last cadet branch to hold the ducal title descended from Henri de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme ( Henry IV of France ), who became king ( nominally ) in 1589, and is sometimes known as the " House of Bourbon-Orléans " ( Maison de Bourbon-Orléans ).

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

** Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 )

* Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 )

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

** Henry IV the Great, 1589 – 1610

Henry of Navarre was the heir presumptive and now effective King of France, so when he converted to Catholicism he was recognised by both Catholics and Protestants as King Henry IV ( reigned 1589 – 1610 ).

Kösem Sultan ( 1589 – 1651 ) the mother of Murad IV who exercised a decisive influence on the sultan's decisions during his youth.

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

Mindful of the origin of his success, Innocent IX supported, during his two months ' pontificate, the cause of Philip II and the Catholic League against Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ) in the civil Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 1598 ), where a papal army was in the field.

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

Henry III of Navarre, who was also count of Foix, in 1589 ascended the French throne as Henry IV, and by an edict of 1607 established the head of the French state, along with the bishop of Urgel, as co-princes of Andorra.

Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate gouvernement, which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais.

When Henry III was assassinated on 31 July 1589, Navarre became the first Bourbon king of France as Henry IV.

* Henry IV, the Great ( 1589 – 1610 )

* Margaret ( 1589 – 1655 ), married Francesco IV Gonzaga of Mantua

* Henry IV ( 1553 – 1610 ), king of France from 1589 to 1610

The situation on the ground in 1589 was that the new Henry IV of France, as Navarre had become, held the south and west, and the Catholic League the north and east.

Farnese was to have turned his attention back to the northern Netherlands, where the Dutch had regrouped, but on 1 – 2 August 1589, Henry III of France was assassinated, and Farnese was ordered into France, in support of the Catholic opposition to Henry IV of France.

Upon the accession to France's throne of Henry IV of Bourbon in 1589, his first cousin-once-removed Henry, Prince of Condé ( 1588 – 1646 ), was heir presumptive to the crown until 1601.

* King Henry IV of France, who succeeded his distant cousin Henry III in 1589

His successor, Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), and his gardener, Claude Mollet, restored the gardens, and built a covered promenade the length of the garden, and a parallel alley planted with mulberry trees, where he hoped to cultivate silkworms and start a silk industry in France.

Henry IV retired to Dieppe, followed by Mayenne, who joined his forces with those of his cousin Charles, Duke of Aumale, and Charles II de Cossé, comte de Brissac, and engaged the forces of the League in a succession of fights in the neighbourhood of Arques ( September 1589 ).

* 1551 – Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

* April 13 – Catherine de ' Medici, queen of Henry II of France ( d. 1589 )

** Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

* September 19 – King Henry III of France ( d. 1589 )

Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

Bourbon monarchs ruled Navarre ( from 1555 ) and France ( from 1589 ) until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

Once the Bourbons inherited the throne of France from the House of Valois in 1589, their dynasts married daughters of even the oldest ducal families of France — let alone noblewomen of lower rank — quite rarely ( viz., Anne de Montafié in 1601, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency in 1609 and, in exile from revolutionary France, Maria Caterina Brignole in 1798 ).

The House of Valois () was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet ( or " Direct Capetians ") as kings of France from 1328 to 1589.

He was born at the Royal Chateau at Fontainebleau, the son of Henry II, King of France ( 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559 ) and Catherine de ' Medici ( 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ).

Henry III ( 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589 ; born Alexandre Édouard de France,, ) was King of France from 1574 to 1589.

His father was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, Henry III of France ( 1574 – 1589 ), in application of Salic law.