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ity, i. 354, 355; wants indemnity for the kingdom of Navarre, i. 356; is received at court with studied discourtesy, ib.; is deaf to remonstrance, i. 357; meets fresh indignity, i. 358; his irresolution embarrasses Montbrun at Lyons, i. 427; invites Beza to Nerac, i. 431; his short-lived zeal, i. 432; pressure upon him and Conde to force them to come to Orleans, ib.; his concessions, i. 433; at Limoges the Huguenot gentry offer him aid, i. 434; he dismisses his escort, i. 435; his infatuation, ib.; reaches Orleans, i. 436; is treated almost like a prisoner, ib.; his danger, i. 440; makes an ignominious compact with Catharine de' Medici just before the death of Francis II., i. 444; his opportunity at Charles IX.'s accession, i. 451; his contemptible character, ib.; his humiliation, i. 466; he receives more consideration in consequence of the bold demands of the Particular Estates of Paris, i. 467; his assurances to M. Gluck, the Danish ambassador, that he would have the gospel preached throughout France ib.; he invites Beza to the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 494; his urgency, i. 496; he is plied by the arts of the papal legate, i. 553; his apostasy, ii. 9; his defence of Guise after the massacre of Vassy, ii. 27; and Beza's reply, ii. 28; has become "all Spanish now," ii. 29; seizes Charles IX. and brings him back to Paris, ii. 36; he is mortally wounded at the siege of Rouen, ii. 79; his last hours and death, ii. 81; his character, ii. 82; extravagant eulogy of De Thou, ii. 83; mourning at the Council of Trent, ib.; his delight at the prospective marriage of his son to Margaret of Valois, ii. 393. Navarre, Henry of, son of Antoine de Bourbon-Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, afterward Henry IV. of France, born Dec. 14, 1553. Takes part in a tournament at the Bayonne Conference, ii. 179; remonstrates against the perfidy displayed by the Roman Catholics in the murder of Conde and other Protestants at Jarnac, ii. 305; with his cousin Conde, he becomes nominal general-in-chief of the Huguenots, ii. 314; they are nicknamed "the admiral's pages," ib.; at Moncontour, ii. 334; proposed marriage of Henry to Margaret of Valois, ii. 392 seq.; by the death of his mother he b
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