If he had been born in peacetime, he might have become a wise king.
However, it backfired. Just two years after he ascended the throne, Henry and Prince Conte of Navarra fled Paris.
Once the two converts got rid of the king's supervision, they immediately announced that they would set things right and return to the Protestant faith.
At first, Henry III hoped to strike a balance between the Catholic Holy Alliance led by Duke Gith and the Huguenots under Henry of Navarra. However, in 1584, Henry's heir and younger brother, Duke Arancon, died young, and the king himself had no descendants. France gradually highlights the crisis of succession to the throne, and the closest natural heir to the French king turned out to be Henry of Huguenot School! Henry III had gradually acquiesced in this fact, but Duke Gith obviously could not accept it, and gradually developed the will to usurp the throne (he was secretly supported by Spain and the Pope).
1585, under the strong pressure of Duke Gith, Henry III was forced to announce the cancellation of Henry's inheritance right in Navarra, which immediately aroused the latter's large-scale rebellion.
The Duke of Gith also took the opportunity to join the fray, hoping to benefit the fishermen and gain the throne.
Because the leaders of the three warring parties are all called "Henry", it is called "Three Henry Wars" in history.
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Duke Gith was a soldier. He led troops to defeat Protestants many times. His troops were well-equipped and experienced, and took the lead in the civil war.
Henry of Navarra is good at winning people's hearts, and he has received great help from England.
In contrast, French King Henry III is the most vulnerable.
1588, Duke Gith successfully defeated Wang Jun and entered Paris in high spirits, while Henry III fled in panic.
Some nobles argued that the Gith family had the ancient Caroline royal lineage, and was actually more qualified to sit on the throne than Henry III of the valois family.
Down and out, Henry III even had to agree to the winner's request, and humiliated him by granting the title of French Lieutenant General to Duke Gith.
But the king didn't want to be a puppet. Since he can't defeat chance on the battlefield, he hopes to have an unexpected plot.
At present, Henry III has a mistress, named Charlotte Desoway, who is the right-hand man of Queen Catherine's notorious beauty spy team (this group of beauty spies take * * * princes and nobles as their own duty and spy on the queen mother, nicknamed "mobile fleet").
Charlotte knew the king's troubles. 12 On February 22nd, she and Henry conspired all night and finally came up with a "complete solution".
The next day, the king summoned Duke Gith and his brother Cardinal Louis in bulova Castle, and lied that he had something important to discuss.
When they were waiting for an audience in the conference hall of the castle, the king sent someone to inform Duke Gith to meet alone in the secret room next to the royal bedroom, and took the opportunity to send their guards away.
Knowing nothing about the danger, Chance stepped into the room and found the king and his most elite "45-member group" (the king's personal bodyguard) armed and eyeing. Before the Duke called for help, a group of 45 people swarmed and stabbed him to death.
It is said that the king was jealous of the duke, regardless of the status of the king, and used his feet to * * * the body of Chance. Later, he even ordered the burning of the body and scattered the ashes into the Loire River (according to Catholic tradition, the dead should be buried).
Later, Gith's brother Bishop Louis was also killed, while Gith's son Charlie, only 17 years old, was imprisoned.
The invincible enemy on the battlefield was defeated by the plot of Henry III's mistress. It seems that the king can rest easy from now on.
Duke Gith was assassinated by King Henry III in the Chamber of Secrets.
Henry III stepped on the body of Duke Gith.
However, Duke Gith enjoyed a high reputation in France, and once the news of his murder came out, it caused a great sensation.
It is hard for both nobles and civilians to accept that the monarch of a country should use such despicable means to secretly murder the pillars of his country.
The Royal Palace in Dali, France issued an arrest warrant against King Henry for murder. Many of his subordinates have left him, and the citizens of Paris are also armed angrily, ready to ask the king for an explanation.
Henry III thought that as long as the Duke of Gith was removed, the enemy would fall apart. Unexpectedly, the situation reversed and he had to run to the south of France more awkwardly to take refuge in his theoretical heir, Henry of Navarra.
The latter accepted the fallen monarch quite kindly, not to mention that he was his wife and brother.
However, the anger of the Gith side cannot be dissipated because of the king's escape.
Although Huguenot can't be defeated on the battlefield to capture the king alive, the Holy Alliance also has its own secret service organization.
They are determined that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
1589, 1 In August, Henry III was camping with his troops in St. Croix, near Paris (he planned to besiege Paris with his brother-in-law Henry of Navarra and completely defeat Gith's troops). At this time, a young Dominican monk Jacques Clermont arrived dusty, falsely claiming that he had important confidential documents to hand over to the king face to face.
The king's guards simply checked him, found nothing unusual, and the man did bring a thick document, so they let him into the camp.
When the king checked the documents, Jacques Clermont pretended to be mysterious and claimed that he had a very secret message to tell Henry alone. The king believed it, so he retreated and let Jean Jacques go forward, but when he was listening to the monk's whisper, the latter suddenly pulled out a hidden dagger and stabbed the king deeply in the abdomen.
Henry III was assassinated by Jacques Clermont.
Although Henry III's bodyguard finally reacted and killed the assassin on the spot, it was too late.
After the treatment of the physician that day, it seems that the king's injury is not fatal.
But Henry III had a premonition that his life was coming to an end. He called all the ministers to the bedside and asked them to swear allegiance to Henry of Navarra after his death.
The next morning, the last king of the valois family also died, less than a year after Duke Gith was killed.
It is said that because there was no leader, the Wang Jiajun team besieging Paris was broken up. Parisians celebrated the killing of the king and even called it a miracle, and regarded the assassin Jacques as a martyr.
As the saying goes, "reading history can make people wise, and the past does not forget the teacher of the future."
However, the role of history may not be as simple as meeting the future. People who read deeply must understand that reading history only gives us greater freedom and initiative to create the future.
Life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance. In Gao's lyric poems, we not only experienced a literary complex, but also pursued inner freedom and feelings.
Poetry creates a spiritual utopia for us, while Shi Zhecun makes us more aware of reality. We should not only live in the present, but also live in the future.
Follow these classics, follow the footsteps of history, unveil the veil bit by bit, restore the real scene, feel the passage of time, pursue the thoughts of philosophers, explore the spiritual world of mankind bit by bit, and meet smarter yourself day by day.