JACQUES See also:CLEMENT (1567-1589)
, murderer of the See also:French See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III., was See also:born at Sorbon in the See also:Ardennes, and became a Dominican See also:friar
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See also:Civil See also:war was raging in See also:France, and See also:Clement became an ardent See also:partisan of the See also:League; his mind appears to have become unhinged by religious fanaticism, and he talked of exterminating the heretics, and formed a See also:plan to kill Henry III
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His project was encouraged by some of the heads of the League; he was assured of temporal rewards if he succeeded, and of eternal See also:bliss if he failed
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Having obtained letters for the king, he See also:left See also:Paris on the 31st of See also:July 1589, and reached St See also:Cloud, the headquarters of Henry, who was besieging Paris
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On the following See also:day he was admitted to the royal presence, and presenting his letters he told the king that he had an important and confidential See also:message to deliver
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The attend-ants then withdrew, and while Henry was See also:reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a See also:dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak
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The See also:assassin was at once killed by the attendants who rushed in, and Henry died See also:early on thefollowing day
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Clement's See also:body was afterwards quartered and burned
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This See also:deed, however, was viewed with far different feelings in Paris and by the partisans of the League, the murderer being regarded as a See also:martyr and extolled by See also:Pope See also:Sixtus V., while even his See also:canonization was discussed
.
See E
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See also:Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome vi
.
(Paris, 1904)
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