HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 91: Pope Clement Viii, Philip Neri, James Vi And I
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At first, pope clement viii didn"t want to receive henry iv into the church. He still thought of him to be a secret calvinist. Catholic reformer philip neri was the founder of the oratorians. He swayed the pope to show mercy to the king: a new france. As a result of all of this, henry iv was welcomed back into the catholic fold by pope clement. France would now be ruled not by the house of valois but by a new dynasty. Henry"s bourbons who"d last until the 1780 revolution: edict of fontainebleau. With the edict of fontainebleau, the sun king louis xic stripped the huguenots of the rights they had been given in the edict of nantes: bourbon france. Thanks to the work of bourbon kings like louis xiv and catholic advisors like cardinal richeleiu, Many left to found new communities in the americas: calvinism in the british isles. This was thanks to the evangelism of john knox.