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Gabrielle d'Estrées, French mistress of Henry IV of France (born 1571)

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Gabrielle d'Estrées

Mistress and advisor to Henry IV of France

Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux was a mistress, confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France. She is noted for her role in ending the religious civil wars that had plagued France for more than 30 years.
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Henry IV of France

King of France from 1589 to 1610

Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He pragmatically balanced the…
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