FAMOUS BATTLE AMIENS 1597

France’s religious wars tore the country apart and these bitter civil conflicts resulted in the accession of the Protestant Henry IV to the French throne in 1589. The first Bourbon monarch had to fight the powerful ‘Catholic League’ for many years and even converted to Catholicism in 1593 in order to secure his crown. Henry’s public conversion meant that the vast majority of his Catholic subjects accepted him as king but defiant members of the