Edict of Union

France [1588]

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War of the Three Henrys

  • In War of the Three Henrys

    …impose; and he signed the Edict of Union (1588), in which he named Guise lieutenant general of the kingdom and declared that no heretic could succeed to the throne. Unable to endure the humiliation, Henry III that same winter had the duke and the cardinal of Guise assassinated and many…

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