![]() ![]() The king who returned from Poland was remarkably changed, preferring poetry to his former interest in military matters. His coronation and marriage were celebrated in tandem, and Henry again entered the fray of the Protestant-Catholic struggle, this time as ruler. ![]() ![]() But in 1574, upon the death of his brother, Charles IX, he returned to France as heir to the throne. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572), which he is assumed to have partially instigated, he was elected king of Poland. By the age of eighteen he had gained a reputation as a military hero, defeating the Protestants in two key battles (Jarnac and Montcontour) of the Wars of Religion (1562–1598). Born on September 19, 1551, the future King Henry III was the preferred son of Catherine de Médicis and King Henry II of France. ![]()
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