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Noun: Henry the Great
  1. King of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
    - Henry IV of France, Henry IV, Henry of Navarre

Type of: King of France

Part of: Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty

Encyclopedia: Henry the Great, Duke of Burgundy