2-368-308 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Antoine de Saint-Chamand, Seigneur de Mery, an unknown lady and Henry IV of France, 1600 (1882-1884). Antoine de Saint-Chamand was a member of the Catholic League, the organisation founded by Henry, Duke of Guise during the French Wars of Religion. Henry (1553-1610) became King of Navarre in 1572 and ascended the French throne in 1589. A Protestant, he fought in the French Wars of Religion, but after becoming king he converted to Catholicism and in 1598 signed the Edict of Nantes, granting religious freedoms to the Protestants and bringing the conflict to an end. He was murdered by a fanatical Catholic. From the collection of Gaignieres. A print from La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles, Volume III, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884.