King Henry IV Autograph Letter Signed Catherine De Medicis

  
Henry IV Catherine of Medicis meeting to make peace. Autograph letter signed, La Rochelle, 19 November [1586], addressed to \1 in eight-page oblong ink faded. Interesting letter from Henri, King of Navarre and leader of the Protestants, evokes its next diplomatic interview with the Queen of France Catherine de Medicis. \Catherine de Medicis, to be held at the end of this month.

State of the goodwill you bear me, I really wanted to write you this note to ask you to come and take part with the best crew, making sure you'll be welcome ... Be on the 29th of this lussant month with your best crew that can and with your arms.

Your very good friend and assured. In 1586, war rages between henry iii, king of France, Henri ally of way against Henri of Navarre, the future Henri IV. This is the famous \Catherine de Medicis tried the path of negotiation. It organizes an interview with Henri of Navarre, who is also his step-son (he married Margot, daughter of Catherine of Medicis). The meeting is scheduled for early December.

This deadline is carefully prepared by the queen in a tense situation. On November 28, she wrote to one of his loyal soldiers, \General and rest of the kingdom. \Negotiations are underway and each side carries out prisoner releases. Henry of Navarre agrees to a truce since La Rochelle, Huguenot stronghold. Despite this, the Protestants continue fighting, taking particular city rocroi.

Catherine yet spares no detail to accommodate the future king of France. She wrote on December 10: \I have my apartment one side and said Sieur de Navarra own, and is a pretty nice room for us there together.

\The interview is set at 13. Henry is \Catherine tells in his letters the meeting, mutual reproaches, the game of negotiations, Henri's hesitation, and lack of decision, objecting that he should talk to his British and German allies before taking any decision. It was not until 1588 that reunification takes place, with the conversion of Henri of Navarre to Catholicism and its official designation as heir to the throne.

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