François Ravaillac
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François Ravaillac was a French Catholic who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610.
François Ravaillac brandishing his dagger, in a 17th-century engraving
Assassination of Henry IV, engraving by Gaspar Bouttats.
Ravaillac murdering Henry IV, rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris
Henry IV of France
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Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbo
François Ravaillac
…François Ravaillac (French: ; 1578 – 27 May 1610) was a French Catholic who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610. Ravaillac was born in 1578 at Angoulême to an educated family; his grandfather François Ravaillac was the prosecutor in Angoulême, and two of…
Portrait by Frans Pourbus, 1610
Presumed portrait of Henry as a child
Portrait by Pierre Dumonstier, 1568
King Henry IV in his coronation robes, by Frans Pourbus the Younger