Assassinated in 1610 by a religious zealot, King Henry IV was the first French king of this royal house
This remote royal ancestry assumed huge significance as Henry II's 
(ruled... [DOC] [TLE] Henry IV | king of France | Britannica.com [PAR] King of Navarre (as Henry III, 157289) and first Bourbon king of France (1589
1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured ... near Jarnac on March 
13, 1569, by the Duke d'Anjou, the future Henry III, and Cond was killed.