DYK Pope #GregoryXIII got #HenriIII to marry ‘cause too much sex w/different women would make him #effeminate? Didn’t Gregory know Henri was a #CrossDresser who spent his time w/his “mignons” & was assassinated for being #queer? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #histsex #QueerHistory
Workshop of #GermainPilon (ca. 1537-1590)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1580s
Musée du Louvre
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Attributed to François #Quesnel (ca. 1543-1619
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1585
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
#ÉtienneDumonstier (ca.1540-1603)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1586
Bibliothèque nationale de France
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Attributed to François #Quesnel (1542–1619)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1580s
Musée Carnavalet
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
François #Quesnel (1542–1619)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1580s
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Attributed to Étienne #Dumonstier (1540–1603)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1580-6
National Museum in Poznań
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
After Jean de Court (1530-84)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1581
Musée Condé
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1580s
Musée Condé
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1575
V&A
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Nicholas #Hilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1576-8
Djanogly Collection
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
#JeandeCourt (1530-84)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1570
Musée Condé
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
#JeandeCourt (1530-84)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1570
Bibliothèque nationale de France
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
François #Clouet (1520-72)
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1561
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Germain Le Mannier
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1557
Bibliothèque nationale de France
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #HenryIII (1551-89), King of France & Poland, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1552
Bibliothèque nationale de France
#HenriIII #HenrykWalezy #Valois
🎂#Anniversaire #France Henri III, le dernier souffle des Valois www.epocinfo.fr/journal.php?...
#19Septembre #September19 #19Settembre #19deSeptiembre #HenriIII #politique
#HenriIII was stabbed by the fanatical Catholic Dominican friar Jacques Clément #OnThisDay in 1589; the king of #France died the next day, unmourned by most of the country after a disastrous five-year reign that brought the #Valois dynasty to an end...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I...
#CharlesIX died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 #OnThisDay in 1574 — going down in #history as the king who ordered the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre — succeeded by his younger brother #HenriIII — the last of the #Valois kings of #France & the worst...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Henri III fled Paris #OnThisDay in 1588 as Henri, duc de Guise & the Catholic League took control of the city on the Journée des Barricades (Day of the Barricades), leading to the assassination of the duke & then the king in the midst of the Wars of Religion that tore #France apart; in the 'War of the Three Henrys," only Henri de Navarre was left & the Protestant converted to Catholicism, declaring "Paris is worth a mass." Henri IV was the best king France ever had, though tragically, he would be assassinated by a fanatical Catholic priest; but the Bourbon dynasty he founded would continue to rule France until the French Revolution swept Louis XVI from the throne in 1789... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Barricades
#HenriIII fled Paris #OnThisDay in 1588 as Henri, duc de Guise & the Catholic League took control of the city on the Journée des Barricades, leading to the assassination of the duke & then the king in the midst of the Wars of Religion that tore #France apart...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_...
Henri III
#HenriIII was born #OnThisDay in 1551; in contemporary terms, he would be described as a gay crossdresser & I wish I could say he was a good king, but he was really just a bad queen & the worst as well as the last of the #Valois kings of #France...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I...
Henri III
France
#HenriIII signed the Treaty of Nemours with the Catholic League #OnThisDay in 1585, capitulating to the demands of the duc de Guise & revoking all previous concessions to the Huguenots, renewing the Wars of Religion in #France; it made the king the duke's captive...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
Charles IX
Henri III
#CharlesIX died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 #OnThisDay in 1574 — going down in #history as the king who ordered the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre — succeeded by his younger brother #HenriIII — the last of the #Valois kings of #France & the worst...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
