HIST 325 Lecture 16: HIST 325 Notes Dec 1 2016
15 Jun 2017
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Degree of anarchy to which a country can be reduced when have ambitious nobles, people who have resentments for political and financial reasons, resistance for centralization. Phillip ii tended to get involved too, own daughter to propose, third wife was daughter of. Catherine and henry, one of his daughters from that marriage (his favorite) isabella. Increasingly, henry de guise is eyeing the throne himself. Catholic league so strong, henry iii lost paris, tried to take it by force by. Henry iii responds by try assassination himself, and had. Henry de guise and other members of his family assassinated in 1588, bad idea and tended to backfire, calling for tyrannicide. Catherine de medici died in the same year: come early 1590s, anarchy in france. League fighting, phillip ii trying to put daughter on throne, increasingly henry iv trying to put himself forward (as henry iii named him as heir on his throne).
