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Henry of Navarre surnamed "the good" and "the great" was robust, athletic, and handsome. He was the descendent of Louis IX, the leader of the House of Bourbon. Henry was born in Bearn in 1553. He got power by his family. Henry was the third son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne D'albret, daughter and heiress of Henry, King of France. In 1559, his mother took him to La Rochelle and presented him to the assembled Huguenot …

…see the prosperity of his people. In the course of ten years these improvements reduced the national debt from 330 millions to 50 millions and 20 millions of the taxes were remitted during that period. On May thirteen of the same year his second wife, Mary de' Medici's was crowned. The next day when he was about to set out to commence war in Germany, a fanatic named Ravaillac, who leaped into the royal, stabbed him to death.