War of the Three Henrys

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The War of the Three Henrys (French: Guerre des trois Henri), also known as the Eighth War of Religion (French: Huitième guerre de Religion), took place during 1585–1589, and was the eighth conflict in the series of civil wars in France known as the French Wars of Religion. It was a three-way war fought between King Henry III of France, supported by the royalists and the politiques; King Henry of Navarre, later Henry IV of France, heir presumptive to the French throne and leader of the Huguenots, supported by Elizabeth I of England and the German Protestant princes; and Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic League, funded and supported by Philip II of Spain. The underlying cause of the war was the looming royal succession crisis from the death of heir presumptive, Francis, Duke of Anjou (Henry III's brother), on 10 June 1584, which made the Protestant Henry of Navarre heir to the throne of the childless Henry III, whose death would extinguish the House of Valois. On 31...

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