Lot n° 295
Estimation :
500 - 600
EUR
" PROLONGATION OF THE SURCEASE OF ARMS AND HOSTILITY... " - Lot 295
" PROLONGATION OF THE SURCEASE OF ARMS AND HOSTILITY... "
HENRI IV. Piece signed "Henry," countersigned by Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu as Secretary of State. "At the camp of Dreux", June 23, 1593. 1/2 p. in-folio. 500/600
"The king grants a new continuation and prolo[n]gation of the surceance of arms and hostility in the area previously limited to the vicinity of Paris, in favor of and for the greater security of the conference until the third of July next led[ict] day included, wants and intends His Majesty to inviolably observe it in accordance with the first agreement that was made, ordering all his men of war to do so without contravening it, and the governors of the places that are in his obedience to keep a hand in it, making public the present will of His Majesty so that no one pretends to be ignorant of it... "
PIECE SIGNED ONE MONTH BEFORE HIS ABJURATION. Henri IV was then leading the siege of Dreux, one of the last bastions that resisted him, but in April 1593 he had established a truce around Paris where the League-controlled Estates General were sitting, debating the succession to the French throne - they claimed that the principle of Catholicity was superior to the Salic law of transmission of the Crown through men. On June 28, the Parliament of Paris issued a ruling that recognized the fundamental value of the Salic Law, making Henry IV the legitimate king, while admitting the validity of the principle of Catholicity. Master of Dreux on July 8, 1593, Henri IV drew the consequences and abjured the Protestant faith on July 25.
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