HENRY IV OF FRANCE: (1553-1610)
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HENRY IV OF FRANCE: (1553-1610) King of France 1589-1610 and King of Navarre 1572-1610. First French Monarch of the House of Bourbon. Assassinated. L.S., Henry, with holograph `Votre Byen bon amy´, (`Your very good friend´) in his hand, one page, Coutras, 4to, 22nd August 1582, as King of Navarre, to Sieur de Varillant, in old French. The document refers to the possibility of obtaining a freehand for Sieur de Manques, whose father was foreigner, in case he would be persecuted because of the Francs-fiefs land taxation. With small traces of a former seal. Overall age wear, folded, with small repair to the verso and few very small holes to the folds. F The present letter is signed at Coutras, where five years later, on 20th October 1587, took place the Battle of Coutras, a decisive engagement during the French Religious Wars between a Huguenot army under Henry of Navarre, future Henry IV of France, and a Royalist army led by Anne de Joyeuse who was killed while attempting to surrender to a victorious Henry of Navarre.
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